Member cleanup Thread

I was just flipping through the member list, when i noticed that most of these people haven't been on for a year or more! I think there should be a definate cleanup of members. After 8 months of inactivity, your account is deleted. I truly doubt they will miss it, seeing how they never came here. And look at the number of members we got.. 40,000 we're up to. But how many of this actually come here? I doubt many at all.

So i think it would be nice to clean up these inactive members and that way we can also have a more accurate member count on this site, not a big ass number of dead people..

No, not a good idea. What if an old user returns after nine months and finds his user is gone? Every member is entitled to have a user and not have it deleted on them. However, admins might see this different from me. This is just my opinion.

90% of innactive users have never been heard from since thier leave

Clean up isnt always the most proficient way to do things, but hey, you gatta do what you gatta do sometimes

I have to agree with cleaning that up. If a member has been gone 3/4s of a year I highly doubt they will miss their previous account, nevermind remember to log into it and just make a new one. Only active members should be listed. No dead mods should be deleted so people can gather knowledge on other's work but the member list is inexcusably big when in fact the active member list on moddb doesnt run very far past 20.

Not to say that theses members need to be deleted after 3/4 a year.
Im only pointing the finger at 2 year or more leavers who have forgoten about the db entirely.

For instance, I can very often become inactive for a month or two due to work and/or classes...gives no reason for my deletion from the site.

but I do understand your point.

Despite half of them being inactive

some of them got moddb past 10k users etc..

Looks good in the status up to other website , we dont want to start chopping them

and if it was REALLY a hassle of taking up space scott would of done it by now

THe user can only be a few KB/s

thats definitely a good idea, im sure that 90% of these guys are not going to return to modDB anymore, and all this information just shits the server

THe user can only be a few KB/s

text information, avatar, random image, smiley ~30-40kb x 40k

- Edited By BartNowciu On Wed 8th, Sep 2004 @ 5:16:46pm

If it was 8months I would have been deleted

If you cleaned up all the users all our member numbers would change.

nah, they would stay the same, depending how scott has everything set up

For me, its not a matter of space, its a matter of numbers.. Hell, after 6 months, its about 90% sure they aren't commin back. And look at our numbers.. 40 thousand members, but how many are actually active here? Thats a very inaccurate number and it sorta nags me cause i'd like to know how many members actually show up, and i think others would to. To say we get 40k people that come on this site is a load of BS, cause theres masses of inactive accounts.

I say after 6-8 months, the account gets deleted. I doubt they will miss their account, and if they want a new one, hell it only takes a minute of your time to set it up. I think this would be a good way to go as it would show the RIGHT number of members, and not a way over-high mass of inactive people.

Using any member search and such is such a problem with the hundreds of profiles that were made but never touched.

Maybe we are a bunch of neatfreaks

I agree. One person (of course more than one, but i'm just saying...)even set up an account, registered a mod, gave up work, then left his profile to rot. there's thousands of people who have done that. LET THEIR PROFILES BE DELETED FOREVER.

I don't see why it matters. Leave em there. They're not causing you any harm

Like chis says, it makes the site seem more popular. And a ton of them probably dont have avatars since they dont visit the forum. MAYBE I could see deletion of those but only the avatars/random member pictures for idle people.

Its really greg's call anyways and something for him to talk over with Intense!.

Members are like the actual mod record files - they can be suspended, banned, or removed from listings, but they will never be deleted from the database.

v2 will purge people from 'active' listings after 6 months of inactivity, but their profile, forum posts and anything they did whilst here all remain intact and the account can easily be brought back into the public light by logging in again, it just doesn't appear on member lists.

Having a high registered members count is always a good thing for a website. Whether they stay or go makes no difference, it's the fact that they came here in the first place and took the time to register. That means a little something. And when that little something is multiplied by 40,000+, you find success.

Eventually that number overpopulates and gobbles you up....let alone every one's signal strength

but hey...isnt and never will be my decision any time soon

- Edited By ghost On Thu 9th, Sep 2004 @ 6:38:13am

I Concur with 40oz. I also left for about 6 to 7 months after I joined but I came back, Damn good thing the deletion thing wasnt around to.

There's no point in deleting members, especially when you think of the database integrity side of things; its a lot better to just sweep them under the covers so we don't trip over them unless we're specifically looking for them.

Why not just make it so that the members number is how many members are active and if after 2-3 they are constantly inactive then there taken off the members number not deleted just removed from the number that way if someone comes back they can still use it and if you just dont go looking for inactive members then it wont annoy you.

Well, yeah, that would just be a separate statistic; the total members is still as relevant as it is on any other site...

that could always work.. Member number is my main problem because it makes us look SOO big, when we have a small fraction of that number actually around..

I'm not sure, as some of you may have noticed it's been a few months since I last signed in and I wouldn't want my profile being deleted. I doubt they are doing much harm so I say leave them be, and like several of you have pointed out the more members the site has the better it looks.

dEaThMaStEr wrote: that could always work.. Member number is my main problem because it makes us look SOO big, when we have a small fraction of that number actually around..

We are actually bigger than you might think, last I heard it was similiar traffic to Planet HalfLife every day.