Puruning inactive accounts ?

How about puruning inactive accounts which can be used by banned people to give more reliability by account age ?

I'm sure there are lots of guys with multiple accounts registered with different IPs and they have backup accounts just in case they get banned so they use the alternative account which will be few months old and will help them get more reliability in dealing with people in short term and maybe scam as well

They are useless memberships anyways since someone who registers an account and never posts for a month with 0 posts won't likely be active ever

 

As a wise man once said...Sorry, not going to happen!

 

I doubt that would ever happen.

People may not post, but they may want to view the forums as registered members.

The duplicate accounts can be found out. If you have been on the forum long enough, you can recognise a particular person even if he posts from a different ID.

You may have a point in your post , but you cannot do prune accounts en masse.

 

any webmaster worth his/her salt, knows you never do that, for the following reasons:
# 1 you prevent other members being conned into thinking they are talking to an old friend.
# 2 you build up a database of member contact details that might be useful later.
# 3 you have credibility with a huge member total so why would you want your website to take a nose dive in the ratings for biggest websites?

think you have a lot to learn still.

 

Actually this is the point of having it done rather not having it done

Some people use this to gain credibility of having old account to scam combined with buying some iTrader points as discussed by you in another thread

You mean spamming members with offers ? DP never does and won't ever do that!

Do you really think a dump database being sold on ebay with 100k members for 10$ would be any useful on a dead domain ?

Activity is in the daily posts not member count, have a look at the stats

Members: 113,851, Active Members: 40,569

those 40k are those who are building the reliability of this forum since no one will see any good from 75k inactive members and they are the only ones who deserver to be called DP members. at least this will free 75k rows in the database.

We all do but I'm building my suggestion on a personal experience where I pointed some cases for the mods about banned members using the technique of using old accounts after getting banned to get access to the forum with some reliability that old accounts have.

 

Just because a member isn't using the account doesn't mean that they don't want it any more. Some may leave for years and come back again. And as Samantha already pointed out, contact details of inactive or banned members is a very useful resource for the mods

 

my replies in bold

again, peoples posting styles rarely change thats why it's a must to keep the inactive members in tact. far fewer get access to old accounts than banned people making new accounts, so having the posts in tact, is the main reason they are found and banned again quickly.

 

All members are useful mate. Deleting those accounts would delete their posts, threads as well - well, poster name and make it say "guest".

 

Guys, I meant those with 0 posts not those who were active and are away now for any reason !

Many people here have stand by accounts and this is what I'm targeting by this thread

 

0 post count is for a few reasons,
#1 posted spam via pm
#2 just likes to read the forums and not take part
#3 banned/dupe account caught by the system and just not activated so cant post (this is important as it keeps a log of the ip# that was used to register the account and banned member, so making it more easier to trace and keep track and issue extended bans on their main account)
#4 failed activation email receipt (again this is people trying to bypass the system security or not looking in junk folder)
#5 0 post count takes up no server/database space whatsoever so why bother?

you still have a lot to learn.

 

#01 > Those belong to Banned group once reported.
#02 > The forum can be read for guests last time I checked.
#03 > Those belong to "Validating" group or whatever the name is.
#04 > look at #3.
#05 > you are completely wrong. where do you think the names and Ips will be registered then ? it takes 1 row in the members table.

IP has always been useless way to track people activity since there are way many ISP that give you new IP every time you reboot the router thus you see guys selling 100 digs and such.

And in all the cases I pointed to mods about duplicate accounts, the Ip wasn't the way of detecting the abuse.

Now who needs to learn a lot ?

 

Look at all the work your talking about vs the reward.

 

i already know and your comments do not hold any water.