Old members and an expiration time

[nspurway]

Like Hotmail, wouldn't it save space if, say, after 30 days of no activity (logging in), the account is suspended, then if no activity after another 30 days, or a week, the account is deleted? I reckon there's about 200 members who jumped on the DaftClub in the first few months and never came back. Why on either side of me, members 10 and 12, logged in 5 and 3 months ago respectively. This is not reflecting our TRUE activity and member status.
We should clean it up!
thoughts?
spurway.
xx

[Pauly]

Yes good idea but i dont think it should be put into place until christmas and new years breaks are over seing alot of us will be off on holidays around the glob or interstate it would be unfair to delete suspend there acount because of no way to get on thedaftclub.com:D

happend to me last month?

[piroteki]

actually, though it's a good idea in theory, it's not that great of an idea in practice.

deleting accounts would mess up how the database indexes users and would make things too confusing that way.

besides that, looking bigger than we are is actually a benefit; if we look bigger, people will be more likely to join.

besides that, i don't know if we have access to delete accounts to begin with, anyway...

(we actually had already discussed this among admin/mods and decided that we will not be deleting accounts.)

[DJPixcell]

I know in some types of forums, (unkown for this one as I haven't managed it before..), you can delete any account.

BUT, it takes a great deal of time to do. For one account, its not much time, but for deleting hundreds of accounts, it would take weeks of non-stop deleting. Which is pointless.

You would have to search each member up, go through their options, and delete them, and save. Each time, for every account that you delete.


Plus I really agree with piroteki. The more users, well accounts, we have the more appealing the website is to incoming users.



I have tried and failed to make a forum site, at least 4 times now. The hardest part is trying to get users in!


Theres no need to delete accounts. ;)

Not unless there is something wrong with the account itself and it needs to be reset/remade.

:)

[nspurway]

True. But it seems to be unfair that they make accounts and then piss off forever...:(

[Pauly]

Yea well they have made it for a reason.
so mabey in time the will remember about it and start contributing.

they didnt just randomley siqn up for no reason dont forget that?

[nspurway]

judging by the amount of time? yeah I think they did.
5 months? 1 month? people who signed up in january and never came back? there are people who came on, joined, and totally forgot!

[Aero5555]

I really don't see what the big deal is Spurway, it'd be more of a hassle than a benefit if we went through with this, I agree with Piro and DJPixcell.

[nspurway]

Oh no. I'm not vying that it's a must. It was more of a... pointing out of something,

[Pauly]

Would deleting acounts lower bandwith that we generously need?

[piroteki]

Would deleting acounts lower bandwith that we generously need?
nope.

bandwidth only gets taken up if we have people accessing the site. since those inactive members aren't logging on, they're not taking up bandwidth. what they are taking up is server space, but i don't think that's an issue at this point, because we are still a relatively small group in terms of the internet.

[nspurway]

Good point.

[Pauly]

Yea and were not needing alot of server space its not a must atm but in the long run if it keeps happening whe might have to agree with spurway