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Members List is huge.
I new to Japan Forum, so I've been looking though the Members List. I couldn't help but notice the massive amount of accounts that have never posted. Perhaps there needs to be a pruning of unused accounts.
for example: If the account is over six months old, and has never had a single post it should be deleted. Before deletion, maybe a email, could be sent as a warning. Do not delete if the user has posted before. |
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Of course there are 60% that register and never posts, should be deleted!
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there are plenty of things that possibly could be done around here but haven't been. just have to live with it i guess :)
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yeah som should be deleted!
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some people could be active by reading posts, so saying that they should be deleted if they haven't posted anything i think is not really a good way.
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I guess you could cut down on the members list if it really bugged some people, but does it make any difference in the actual forum ~ ?
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well I think its a good idea I mean why have a huge ass list that has a shit load of members that are new, have no posts and dont even visit the site....plus it'll be easier when ppl randomly want to go thru the members list, since the list will be shorter and easier to find some1 instead of having to skip thru so many names...
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@persiandragon: if you sent an email as a warning first it would solve that problem.
@crani: without the "w" in two, it makes me think of an army marching towards a flock of birds on a rock. "ONWARD! To birds with one stone!" :vsign: just letting you know, because I've NEVER made a typo. Ever. *is lying* |
this is a good idea but if people sent an email....yes i know, its the proper thing to do..but my point is. if you sent an email to the inactive people then the just might come here for a day, make a post or two then do the whole thing again 6months from now just to save their account.
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Though I post regularly, I see value in those who only read the forum. Other than the General Topics, there is much to be learned hear from by those who are busier "listening" than "talking".
I say test the email addresses of those who are inactive and then delete those that are no longer valid. Any pruning of the membership beyond this is a disservice to many of the actual Japan-focused threads. Besides the volume of the member list should only be an issue of capacity. Any system handling this volume of posting should not be looking to it membership data to free up capacity. Compared to storing the posts it's storage requirement is miniscule. The only others who I can see needing the membership list compacted would be either spammers or stalkers collecting data. Why would anyone else mind scanning more than a screen or two to find someone's profile that they wanted to contact? |
Delete that ones that haven't been on since they registered? lol
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The member list is massive and full of people who never posted on the site after registering, or only posted one thread and never came back to check the replied [which I think is this most annoying thing to do.] However, it begs the question, what's the point in the clean up? Maybe it should just be to give an accurate measure of how many members are actually active on JapanForum, I don't know. But looking at that list it is absolutely massive and it seems we only have a few active mods, I doubt they want to waste their time doing all that. And the main admin of this site isn't here anymore I don't think, I presume it's that ShinjukuEki because they have the ability to post on the main page? Though you can't tell whether that person is active or not ^-^;; |
Back to my main point..... why does it matter to anyone what the size of the member list is?
Are any of you security or system administrators? Editing a user list is frigging busy work that no one wants to do unless there is a problem. |
I agree. If there isn't a problem, why do anything?
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