Deleting users.
I have seen a number of people lately that have only posted 2 times or some other low number and haven't ever been heard from again. some other forums that i was part of, did a cleanup every so often and cleaned the forum of users that had been inactive for a year, had no posts and no activity for some time, or people banned for life. Does this kind of this happen here every so offten or does the number of users just keep increasing?
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I think it only increase : just look at all those 2001 users no longer here :p
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Well, as GHDPro has already said, AnimeSuki started on 26th December 2002. The forums have been around before that but not as an anime related site (that's why you can see members back from 2001), so the (real) forums are about a year old now.
There hasn't really been a need to do things like remove inactive users, while they do take up some storage space, it doesn't look like the we are running out of steam. It might happen in the future but who knows. I've been using the site since I discovered BT on 26th Jan 2003 (joined the forums on 29th Jan), a lot of new members have joined since then :) BTW, is there a reason for your question? |
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Why delete extra users if they dont post? They dont take up any space or anything(besides a few kb in the database). Btw, I'm a "2001" user myself...
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ohh, i thought that there was more than 500. that changes everything. i'm a network lover so every time i have a chance i clean up my domain at my house. but i'm not a neat freak in real life, just in my virtual hole. |
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You just have to get used to the mindset that there are oodles of Mb storage on the server so there's little point in doing a spring clean of the deadwood :) |
There would be no reason to do this for space reasons -- plenty of
HD space is still left on the server. And as Mb81 already mentioned, it's not very neat to delete users which still have a few posts, as those posts will be assigned to "Guest". What I may do soon is delete all users which have registered, but not posted anything (0 posts total) since November 2003. That would get rid of the "2001" users which were not anime fans for example. At least, I've done this a few times in the past. Previously those "2001" users which did post at least something in the anime forums of the old days would not have been deleted, but this time they will. |
FYI, I've just deleted 2184 (!) forum users who:
- Registered before November 2003 (before the reset) - Haven't posted anything in that time (0 posts) - Haven't logged on for 120 days (4 months) If you do not fall into the categories above obviously your account will not have been affected at all. |
I would like to delete my account but can't find anywhere to do it on the User CP. Anyone know how?
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You can not delete your account. You can remove all information in your account and never come back again, and at best you can get yourself banned in which case your current info will be frozen in. To clarify, a admin might be able to do it but its such a disruptive operation no sane person would do it knowing the implications. In your case you already have two posts so even more reason to not delete your account.
Why do you want to delete the account anyway? |
As Cats says, users cannot delete their own account. Indeed, currently we do not physically delete accounts, we only withdraw the profile from public view (disable the account). This allows the forum structure (existing posts and the like) to remain unchanged.
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Well, the only point I could think about deleting old inactive accounts is maybe the username could be used by somebody else who liked it and since those accounts do still exist, those usernames will be unavailable for new memebers...
but well, that can be easily solved with the username change thread ^^ (after all my actual username is an example of this xDDD) |
So... what was AnimeSuki before December 2002?
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Before, it was on this other software with post counts, gender tags etc and at some point before that part of the Emulator Zone forum or something. You can see it by simply going to a web archive site. What does this have to do with the topic though?
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It certainly isn't an extreme improvement and in contrast to other things has almost neglible impact on the peformance (per query), but it can make a difference if very many users use the board at the same time (peak usage performance). |
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In an antagonistic environment (hypothetical situation where the forum operators refused to allow deletion because of the impact), they would probably have to go through a general cease and desist type procedure. Presumably arguing copyright infringement. It could get costly; very much so if the courts get involved. And then the case may fail if the court agrees that the damage to the forum is disproportionate. I don't think there are any statutes or test cases that specifically deal with "forum posts", but then I'm not a lawyer... Even with all that, I think a tightly worded terms of service agreement could cover said hypothetical forum. We've not written such a policy, stipulating the presumed grant of use in perpetuity, because we prefer to keep things low-key and friendly. We don't stop people editing their own posts or deleting them (when they are not new threads). As yet, very few people have wanted to remove all their posts and those that have hadn't contributed much. Quote:
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Rather than *deleting* the account... it'd just be much cleaner to lock it and rename it. The only scenario I can think of that might still be a problem is that if the user was trying to scrub their web presence for legal reasons (or stalking reasons). In that case, the user would simply have to review all their posts and remove any personally identifying material before the lock/rename.
Essentially, this is such an unusual situation - I should think the forum owners could handle it on a case-by-case basis. |
Don't treat the forum like facebook and you can come and go as you please.
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