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Poll Question:
Assume about 6 months is considered stagnant | | Total Votes: | 75 | | 1. Yes | 48 | 64 % | 
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F A S T
 
Location: Oakland, CA
Gender: Male
Coastal Wind
 |  |  |  | Delete Stagnant Members
< on 7/13/2004 7:28 AM >
|  | | | I certainly think so.
F A S T |
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Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 1 on 7/13/2004 12:06 PM >
| | | | Members can't be "deleted", because it would ruin the associations between their posts and them. We'd have to delete their posts too.
However, I could close the account after 6 months of inactivity and then it simply disappears from the member list and stuff...
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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uem-Tux
Iron Wok Jan
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
UE Geek
| |  | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 2 on 7/13/2004 5:09 PM >
|  | | | One question: Why?
If it's not saving server space or anything, why deactivate the account if the person might, one day, come back and use it?
Urban Exploration Montreal
Why are you the way that you are? |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 3 on 7/13/2004 5:16 PM >
|  | | | I'd be curious to know how many of our thousands of members are not really members... people that signed up, poked around and haven't been back in half a year or more. It would at least give us a more accurate idea of the user base that is actually still showing up once in awhile.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Sinister Crayon
 
Location: Colorado
Gender: Male
| | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 4 on 7/13/2004 5:23 PM >
| | | | thats what http://www.uer.ca/forum_stats.asp?fid=1 is for.
If you will look closely there is a "Number of active users" stat which shows how may people have been on in the last 30 days, so in essence we already have an accurate idea of the user base that is actually still showing up once in awhile.
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Mike Dijital
  
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 5 on 7/13/2004 5:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jester
I'd be curious to know how many of our thousands of members are not really members... people that signed up, poked around and haven't been back in half a year or more. It would at least give us a more accurate idea of the user base that is actually still showing up once in awhile.
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I agree with Jester fully. the forum says 1000's of members, but I really see the same 300 or so post. if not delete members, it would be cool to see acurate member activity info
"Number of registered users: 5257
Number of contributing users (post in last 30 days): 622
Number of active users (seen in last 30 days): 1357"
im willing to bet half of that number hasn't posted in 6 months
[last edit 7/13/2004 5:28 PM by Mike Dijital - edited 1 times]
www.deggi5.com / www.mikedijital.com |
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
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<Reply # 6 on 7/13/2004 6:37 PM >
| | | | I might like to add can someone make a button or direct me to the button with all the stats. THat would be nice to look at every so often.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 7 on 7/13/2004 6:45 PM >
| | | | the stats are on the front page of UER...
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huskies - such fluff. |
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
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<Reply # 8 on 7/13/2004 7:00 PM >
| | | | Thats what I get for not scrolling down.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Viper
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Gender: Male
Trespassing On!
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 9 on 7/13/2004 8:17 PM >
| | | | Hiding in plain sight huh Av? Also, some people come here to view posts but rarely post themselves.
Earth, the world's most dangerous planet!
"The will to do, the soul to dare." -Sir Walter Scott |
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HairyTheTaco
Location: The Hammer, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 10 on 7/13/2004 8:43 PM >
|  | | | I think they should be deleted. If they havent logged-in in 6 months, they probably forgot their passwords and for some reason dont have the same e-mail, lost interest, became too poor to use the internet, or have fallen sick/dead.
If we delete them, it will at least give the new members more names to choose from. I dont like the thought of joining a forum and having to make my name "HairyTheTaco3567" since all the other good names have been chosen by people who dont even use the service anymore.
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LongHorn
Location: Alabama
Gender: Male
"Clever got me this far, and tricky got me in."
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 11 on 7/13/2004 9:01 PM >
| | | | i dont see where it hurts anybody to not delete the accounts. so they havent posted or been on in 6 months...one guy just came back who sed he hadnt posted in 6 months...maybe they got sick or have been having a lot of trouble in their lives and this site didnt take top priority. it doesnt hurt anybody to not have their accounts deleted, i dont see why its a problem at all.
"Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer." |
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
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<Reply # 12 on 7/13/2004 9:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by LongHorn
i dont see where it hurts anybody to not delete the accounts. so they havent posted or been on in 6 months...one guy just came back who sed he hadnt posted in 6 months...maybe they got sick or have been having a lot of trouble in their lives and this site didnt take top priority. it doesnt hurt anybody to not have their accounts deleted, i dont see why its a problem at all.
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Yeah.. Is there a technical reason to delete the accounts Av ? Are they doing no harm as is ?
Also, when I first joined I went an easy six months without posting anything to the forums at all. I posted a lot of locations mind you. A country in fact.
But if it's done on a 'login' basis I suppose it doesn't matter if the user doesn't post at all.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 13 on 7/13/2004 9:10 PM >
| | | | I don't think the problem is whether or not people post. It's whether or not they log in with their account. If they haven't logged in within 6 months, their account is abandoned and free game for exploration... 
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Sinister Crayon
Location: Colorado
Gender: Male
| | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 14 on 7/13/2004 10:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by LongHorn
it doesnt hurt anybody to not have their accounts deleted, i dont see why its a problem at all.
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you say that like you haven't had that happen before. they should be deleted after 1 year instead of 6 months.
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tokensafari
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 15 on 7/13/2004 10:50 PM >
| | | | yeh, cause something crazy could happen, and they might not be able to access their computer or something. When they came back to their account, they would find out it doesn't exist anymore, that would be painful. I've expereienced that type of situation before! It's not cool.
If you don't know me, don't judge me |
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LongHorn
Location: Alabama
Gender: Male
"Clever got me this far, and tricky got me in."
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<Reply # 16 on 7/14/2004 12:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by Snipz0r
you say that like you haven't had that happen before. |
havent had what happen....havent ever had my account not be deleted? hmm...
"Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer." |
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
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<Reply # 17 on 7/14/2004 2:12 AM >
| | | | Two sides of the coin... One of my accounts was deleted while I was gone to baghdad. Its sad because I wont go there anymore because I cant log in again and since my name and info are taken as dead space I can not make another login. However I dont have tons of need to be on.
On the other hand I wouldnt care if they were deleted from a year of not logging on.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Plytheman
Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Obey The Deer
| | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 18 on 7/16/2004 4:43 PM >
| | | | I bet alot of them merely signed up to see more than ten pictures... thats the onlyreason I registered, ironicly, cus now I post all teh time.
I'm achin, I'm shakin, I'm breakin, Like Humans Do!!
-Byrne |
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F A S T
Location: Oakland, CA
Gender: Male
Coastal Wind
| | | | Re: Delete Stagnant Members
<Reply # 19 on 7/17/2004 8:04 PM >
| | | | Well the Baghdad scenario makes a lot of sense, there should just be a "leave" option you can select so everyone knows you are away. People who don't give a damn won't check the leave option and they will be deleted... plus I think its pretty obvious to the admin who will be back and who is just someone using the account to see pictures, contribute nothing, then vanish for an eternity, why leave their account here? A lot of cool usernames are sitting stagnant and someone who might actually want them can't use them... and the process gets worse and worse.
It could become like creating an AIM SN or a Yahoo Email address...
Jake857465684.... who wants that? All because the user jake has been gone for a year, is really named bob, and doesnt care at all.
So...
those are my main reasons.
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