Deleting Old Accounts With 0 Posts?

[Komag]

I was just browsing through the Member list, sorting different ways, seeing how many "applicants" there are, seeing the recently registered members, etc etc, and I've noticed (probabaly true of ALL forums out there) that there are an awful lot of people with 0 posts. It would certainly make the list easier to look through if they were just all deleted!

 

I don't want to be mean or anything, but people who registered many months ago and never posted anything are surely long gone, right?

 

Maybe it could be automatic - your account will disappear if there are no posts at all after 6 months. Even if you just have 1 post it will not disappear ever, but zero posts and you're gone!

 

Or maybe there could be a sorting option added to the member list page to not show anyone with 0 posts. That way their accounts are still there but I don't have to see them filling up the lists.

 

Ah, I probably won't give a rat's tail tomorrow, but a few minutes ago it did

Edited June 18, 2006 by Komag

[demagogue]

Try flipping through TTLG's member list!

 

(although granted they let you order by post count. Can you not do that here?)

Edited June 18, 2006 by demagogue

[Vadrosaul]

Lurkers use those accounts to keep track of what they've read via the cookie.

 

There's no rule that you have to post on forums, so it'd be unfair to delete them.

[Komag]

Lurkers use those accounts to keep track of what they've read via the cookie.

 

There's no rule that you have to post on forums, so it'd be unfair to delete them.

 

I never thought of that. People really do that?

 

Maybe they could get a warning email a month prior, saying they need to simply reply to email or something, to not get deleted.

[sparhawk]

That would be up to the administrator. It would be quite hard for us to track all the members and send them individual emails manually.

[Komag]

Oh yeah, manually would not be worth the effort, it would only work if it could be automatic

[Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat]

I think the total amount of bother is diminished if a sorting rather than emailing algorithm is implemented. And Komag, thanks for sending me those FMCDs in 2002. I still have the bubble envelope in my drawer. (no idea why)