Bridge Commander Universe

Treleth · **Posted**: 10-10-2005 10:26 PM

I know alot of websites do this, where they look for inactive accounts and delete them, because some of the first people to register only ahve 5 posts

Here are the benefits:
-Easier to go through the membership list
-more usernames available
-etc...

Guest · **Posted**: 10-10-2005 10:40 PM

Good suggestion. I like this one.

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 12:53 AM

Hmmm very goodly idea. I had actually wondered why this hasnt already been done. I thought it was standard practice.

JimmyB76 · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 01:43 AM

doing so would 'close the door' (and wipe out the history of) on the potential return of those people, no? i mean, while its likely to assume most of them are done here, why delete their accounts altogether, and their sigs / avvys / postcounts / registered date / etc etc...
it might be a good idea, but i dont think it really needs to be done...

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 03:09 AM

Why not put a clause in the registration agreement that states if your account has been inactive for more the 2 years and you've only made +- 10 or so posts then your account may be deleted. Might be usefull. Also alot of the people that just register and post 3 things wouldnt usually have a avatar/sig because they wouldnt be bothered knowing it would be shortlived.

JimmyB76 · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 03:50 AM

i, for example, registered at KA forums over a year ago and made 2 posts that day, and hadnt been back since (for no real reason honestly...) i have recently started jumping back in there, and glad to see my old stuff there; such as an old avvy i used to use here way back when and such...
and i dont think we need make more work for the webmasters eh? people complain incessantly as it is when the site is down for maintanance...

MLeo · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 01:26 PM

We ounce did that (I was a BC2 scripter then).
I'm not sure, but I think we got questions from people who's account had been deleted...
All of which hadn't been here for a long time, or so Raven thought.

Dragon · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 02:20 PM

Glempius · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 02:23 PM

I suggested this idea ages ago to Lynx, but I don't think he got the go ahead.

It's important to remeber though that the majority of the 3000 odd members here are not real people but are in fact adbots shamlessly pimping people's sites

Treleth · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 06:54 PM

ok, I just added a poll.

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 10-11-2005 08:17 PM

I was gone more than long enough to have my account wiped. I'm very happy it wasn't, thank you v much.

Orion 5 · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 03:26 AM

How about just deleting the accounts that have a zero post count? No harm if nothing is really lost. And if they really want to start posting, they can just create a new account.

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 03:53 AM

I have to agree with orion on this one.

Treleth · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 04:24 AM

Same, I second the second

ALso, if you made an account years ago, you most likely forget your password and create a new account ( at lease that happens to me) so if there are VERY inactive accounts (10 or less posts) when this website first started, then shouldn't we also delete them?

**Trim** · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 09:24 AM

Just because people don't post doesn't mean that their accounts aren't being used. IIRC, you have to be registered in order to download anything from the "Mods and Downloads for BC" forum.

tiqhud · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 03:02 PM

can they just be put into an inactive area, or something,

NathanMX · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 06:15 PM

Or maybe there's a chance by asking them via mail. I don't know maybe that's a bit extra work but it may would work.

Creative Inc · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 07:29 PM

Yeah, like perhaps set up something like if someone hasn'y been using their account for like 6 months to a year, they get an e-mail explaining to them that if they don't continue to sign-in and visit, then their account will be deleted in like the next 30 days.

This way they have prior notice and have ample time to go and use/renew their account. If it ever was a bot, then no problem.

MLeo · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 09:14 PM

Treleth · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 10:01 PM

JimmyB76 · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 10:35 PM

i just dont see the need to go thru all this... I Dont Know

**Trim** · **Posted**: 10-12-2005 10:47 PM

Me neither tbh.

MLeo · **Posted**: 10-13-2005 01:22 PM

Agreed with Jimmy and Trim.

JamesTiberiusKirk · **Posted**: 10-13-2005 01:28 PM

agreed, some people like queball dont have the time at the moment, i think theyre happy to see, that they can go on with their stuff like his sona battleship.

Treleth · **Posted**: 10-14-2005 06:03 AM

let's jsut let this thread die then....

JimmyB76 · **Posted**: 10-14-2005 07:44 AM

i'm starting to really appreciate Treleth's sense of forum eitquette... Smile

Pegasus · **Posted**: 10-14-2005 04:00 PM

**Nebula** · **Posted**: 10-14-2005 07:54 PM

yah it does Smile

*thread dies*

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 10-27-2005 05:13 PM

It may just be that the membership list has become difficult to navigate.

KlingonAcademy.com uses a system whereby you can skip to the first A, the first B, the first C, the first R etc.

If that were implemented, there would'nt be such a problem.

Guest · **Posted**: 10-27-2005 05:54 PM

yep. it doesn't take long to flip through the pages by post count before you get to some pretty small numbers. That being said, if the whole shindig requires more work than benefit that would come from it, then why do it?