Member clearing

Dark Helmet · Post by **Dark Helmet** » November 2nd, 2005, 12:04 am

If you look through the memberlist section, you'll see that there are about 80something pages of people. At first, this seems a good thing, but then when you look closer you see a lot of zeros in the #of posts line. This isn't so bad either, apperantly there are a lot of new joiners. but then you look and see that a there a lot of ones that joined before 2004. Perhaps there could be a kind of clearing out of members, anyone joining before Aipril 2005, would just be deleted. You could probably send an email to those who have joined from Jan to Aip 2005 to see if they really don't care. I'm not sure what this would help overall, but it does seem like it would make things neeter. It also might take a lot of work, so we'll see.

Post by **turin** » November 2nd, 2005, 2:02 am

Clear out all accounts that were registered before April 2005?

It seems obvious that what you meant was all unused accounts. But, you should try to be more clear when you post stuff like that.

Dark Helmet · Post by **Dark Helmet** » November 2nd, 2005, 9:15 pm

Yeah, glad that was caught, certainly wasn't what I meant.

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » November 3rd, 2005, 6:12 pm

Send a mail first to this people... Anyway, I don't understand the point of it.

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 3rd, 2005, 6:52 pm

Since you can sort by descending total posts and you have to get out to page 52 before you hit a 0 post individual, I see no need for this. If people want to register a name and not post but just watch, that is fine.

pjr · Post by **pjr** » November 11th, 2005, 11:53 am

Forum membership has advantages other than the ability to post. For instance, a lurker can easily see which forums and topics have new posts, and be notified of new posts in interesting threads.

mig · Post by **mig** » November 11th, 2005, 1:47 pm

As an active forum lurker, I second the last two posts.

Nicolas · Post by **Nicolas** » November 11th, 2005, 4:44 pm

maybe delete the ones that have 0 posts...

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » November 11th, 2005, 6:36 pm

No. Only delete the .ru advertising members!!! They make me become mad.

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 11th, 2005, 7:35 pm

Tux2B wrote:No. Only delete the .ru advertising members!!! They make me become mad.

Don't delete them! We just ban them.

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » November 15th, 2005, 8:25 pm

i was going to say something about what dark helmet said, but i was too slow at choosing where to post it

I agree they should be sent a email and if they reply they are kept

if we did clear most of them off the site would have more memory or something like that, wouldn't it?

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » November 16th, 2005, 1:03 pm

[quote="The Raven"if we did clear most of them off the site would have more memory or something like that, wouldn't it?[/quote]

Not really, no. Informations about members do not take that much place.

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » December 4th, 2005, 8:06 pm

when someone makes one post when they join you know they are committed for a while to posting on the site,

For example, i posted 34 when i first joined, but someone who doesn't just does it for fun or something

toms · Post by **toms** » December 23rd, 2005, 9:49 am

Is it possible to delete the own account?
Reason: Maybe a user doesnÃ‚Â´t like BfW any more (there are such
people

) and doesnÃ‚Â´t care about the forum any more.

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » December 27th, 2005, 11:52 am

1. is impossible (joke)
2. well, it doesn't mean he'll never come back, or that he wants his account to be deleted.