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(Message started by: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Dec 10^th, 2006, 11:58pm)

Title: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Dec 10^th, 2006, 11:58pm

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.

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by towr on Dec 11^th, 2006, 1:29am

I don't think anyone ever gets deleted (on purpose, anyway). Besides, some people return after years of inactivity.

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by Sameer on Dec 11^th, 2006, 10:10am

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 ... ;)

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by towr on Dec 11^th, 2006, 11:16am

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.

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by Sameer on Dec 11^th, 2006, 11:33am

or people stay and their posts go missing.. like T&B, Icarus and alien ;)

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Dec 11^th, 2006, 1:53pm

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.

Title: Re: Deleting Old Non-posters?
Post by Icarus on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:14pm

on 12/11/06 at 11:33:12, Sameer wrote:

or people stay and their posts go missing.. like T&B, Icarus and alien ;)

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.