Many forum accounts are being pruned

See the announcement on every page for more info.

To help with possible collisions of names (and to weed out a lot of old names with special characters, and/or because any forum account will have a site account for v3 and I don't want dead space), I've started doing a massive pruning of forum accounts.

I just removed about 1,500 accounts of users who haven't logged in for over a year and have 0 posts. I'm now going to look for other ways to cut off some of the dead weight.

Really, you could go either or on that. Anyone whose acct is more than a couple months old & still has a post count of 0 can be safely assumed to be dead. Likewise, anyone who hasn't logged in in a year (hell, cut that down to 6 months) can be safely assumed to be dead.

no activity in 2 weeks = dead

DemonRoach said:

no activity in 2 weeks = dead

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Never been on a long holiday then I take it...

H.

Posting in thread to keep my mostly unused account active

oh no worries - the pruning will only be people who really obviously wont be coming around anymore (or dont have site profiles and havent posted in forever, etc)

A bug deletes sothis account? ;P

Oh no! *finds something to hide under*

Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 1

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LMFAO! An admin, and yet this is the only time he's posted since joining in 2002!

he only had admin set up as he was trying to fix something in the server ;) (he's changing it back now)

Doesn't really matter, still pretty funny seeing someone who joined 6 years ago & never posted until now. ;)

Please don't kill me ='(

I'll try to log on more often D=

me not dead weight

sothis said:

I just removed about 1,500 accounts of users who haven't logged in for over a year and have 0 posts. I'm now going to look for other ways to cut off some of the dead weight.

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The right thing to do. We purge the accounts with 0 posts younger than 6 months or with 0..1 posts older than 6 months yearly. Not a single complaint on the matter in the last 9 years.

generallly i dont tend to care, but the problem we'll run into is people will create site accounts and the forum ones wont be able to auto create (as the names will be taken)

Well, hopefully forum accounts (the ones that are inactive) won't be deleted if there is a correspondent (same) username on the main site [because I for one have a bio and an extensive anime list on the main site but this is my first post since joining (THE FORUM)]

Diangos said:

Well, hopefully forum accounts (the ones that are inactive) won't be deleted if there is a correspondent (same) username on the main site [because I for one have a bio and an extensive anime list on the main site but this is my first post since joining (THE FORUM)]

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Ditto

Wow... what a boring first post :...:

Looks like i picked a good time to be active again

Tachikoma said:

Looks like i picked a good time to be active again

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Lol your the president of the Sothis fan club, surely Sothis deleting you would cause some sort of time paradox...

I guess I don't really need a forum account in order to read the forums, (which is obviously all I do from my post count) but at the same time I would rather it not be deleted.