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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Deleting Old Non-posters?
« on: Dec 10th, 2006, 11:58pm » |
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This might be best answered by William himself, but is there some code you are using for removing those who register but haven't posted in a year or possibly even more? I noticed how many registered members there were and started looking through the member list. There is a large number of inactive members. These entries might not seem a large amount of space, but with what I would guesstimate at 2000 members having never posted, it adds up. I'm not saying you should kick them to the curb. I'm just asking.
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 1:29am » |
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I don't think anyone ever gets deleted (on purpose, anyway). Besides, some people return after years of inactivity.
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 10:10am » |
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Yes, and what if they answered a riddle and suddenly you delete it and when you are flipping through old riddles and whoops.. its gone ... 
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 11:16am » |
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Actually, posts don't disappear when users are deleted, as far as I know.
As we've unfortunate enough to experience, when the database glitches and people go missing, their posts remain.
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 11:33am » |
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or people stay and their posts go missing.. like T&B, Icarus and alien
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 1:53pm » |
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I didn't mean that a year of inactivity should be cause for deletion. Some of the best puzzles have been submitted by members who haven't posted at all in years. I was asking about those who register but never make a single post. No posts are lost at all and if they haven't posted in the year since they registered, it seems unlikely they will in the future.
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Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 11th, 2006, 7:14pm » |
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on Dec 11th, 2006, 11:33am, Sameer wrote:| or people stay and their posts go missing.. like T&B, Icarus and alien |
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Alien's problem was that his membership records were corrupted. Any posts he lost were probably part of that small percentage that were lost in the crash (which was the cause of his membership problem too).
My own problems are more likely to exist between keyboard and chair than to be a glitch in the system  . I may just have been careless in posting. But it seems to be happening a lot lately.
T&B's problems were definitely real and unknown, and not a one-time thing - though they haven't occurred for a while, and hopefully won't again.
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