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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:27 am

It's getting to be that time of year again, where we clear out abandoned zero-post accounts, many last active for only a few hours after sign-up. So, at the end of the month, accounts with no posts, and a last active date (last time visited while logged in) before 1-Jan-20 will get purged.

The delay is to give lurkers time to check in, especially those who have been waiting for the new movie to drop.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:15 am

Reminder -- this will be happening tomorrow.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:14 am

And done, clearing 173 stale accounts.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:12 pm

Nice! :thumbsup:

Wow, that's a lotta stale accounts!

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Postby shinryujimikihiko » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:08 am

View Original PostFreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:Nice! :thumbsup:

Wow, that's a lotta stale accounts!


Seems like a small fraction of the total userbase. I'm pleasantly surprised we are that active.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:19 am

This is after removing about 300 such accounts last year, and over 600 the year before, though admittedly those had a bigger backlog to clear, and several other such purges over the years.
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Postby shinryujimikihiko » Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:28 pm

I'm curious - while accounts with no posts have contributed nothing and are therefore no loss, what about accounts that went dark after some posting? What becomes of them exactly?

1 - are their old posts preserved (I'd guess so since removing them would harm the legibility of whatever threads they had posted in long ago)

2 - they are presumably removed from the Member list

3 - are their user names permanently disqualified from re-registration?

4 - do they get a custom user category on their fossilized posts like "purged" so people can tell they are no longer here, as others are categorized as "Administrator" or "Lillin" or what have you?

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Postby Lavinius » Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:29 pm

View Original Postshinryujimikihiko wrote:I'm curious - while accounts with no posts have contributed nothing and are therefore no loss, what about accounts that went dark after some posting? What becomes of them exactly?

I'm pretty sure no one who's ever posted has their account removed, judging by some of the one-thread trolls one sees in the graveyard (though perhaps an exception might be made for outright spambots).
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:55 am

Spam posts and their accounts are deleted on sight, but everything else remains, even if sometimes removed from public view.
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