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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: wilfred on September 19, 2013, 05:57:22 am ---30 days is a bit short isn't it. Some people may lurk for a while to get the feel of the place. Is there any advantage to delete inactive users sooner rather than later? Perhaps time since last logon would be better. --- End quote --- Yes, sorry, that included login and creation. But in any case, there is no need to join this forum to lurk, you can browse all posts without joining. So even if you do visit regularly but have zero posts, what is the point of your account? To contact a member(s) by DM perhaps? |
| Bored@Work:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on September 19, 2013, 06:57:36 am ---what is the point of your account? To contact a member(s) by DM perhaps? --- End quote --- Get "Notify working"? Get "Show unread posts since last visit" working? |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Bored@Work on September 19, 2013, 07:00:45 am ---Get "Notify working"? Get "Show unread posts since last visit" working? --- End quote --- Yeah, good point. Although should people be allowed to do that indefinitely without ever having contributed at least one post? I think not, because it screws up the numbers of how many active users there are. I suspect very few people would read and follow the forum regularly and never ever do a single post. |
| Bored@Work:
I don't know. I see the point of pruning dead wood. I also see the point of preventing spammers to obtain accounts in preparation of some later spam run. On the other hand, I find the forum software unusable without "Show unread posts since last visit". Without that it is absolutely horrible. Does the software have some way to check for the time of last login? E.g. "if zero posts, and last login is older than a year --> trashcan" |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Bored@Work on September 19, 2013, 07:14:07 am ---On the other hand, I find the forum software unusable without "Show unread posts since last visit". Without that it is absolutely horrible. --- End quote --- Sure, if you are reading it on a daily basis. But without that it's more than good enough to come in read and search and see if you like the tone of the forum enough to join and participate. --- Quote ---Does the software have some way to check for the time of last login? E.g. "if zero posts, and last login is older than a year --> trashcan" --- End quote --- Yes, that's what I did, but in this case I put that at a month, not a year. I can search for all users with zero posts, last login time, creation date etc. No one with zero posts who has logged in in the last month was purged. |
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