Actual Active Members

[Mr. Tastix]

It's come to my attention there's over 900 members on this Forum. 400 of those have NO posts whatsoever. Around 250 more members have less than 10 posts.

That's a total of 650 inactive members. Of course, there's ALOT more that. I'd say only 50-100 Members are actually active, whilst the others may have a high post count or have posted like 20 times and just stopped.

I was thinking, what's the point in having 900 Members who are inactive? I'd rather have a Total Member count of 100 members who are active than a Member count of 900 and like 800 of those are inactive.

Just a thought, maybe you should crack down on these as they're potentially leeching from [A] Forums. By wasting space/bandwidth by even joining. Recent members may post, but I've seen Members with no post count and they joined around 2003. That's 3 years ago, isn't that a bit too much?

[James]

This is a bad idea.

[Wasted]

This is a bad idea.

Exactly, cause " Bullchicken " has no posts, but you can clarly see he is a complete legend.

[Cozmo]

Some old players come back for their accounts, and can you really see someone having the patience to remove over 650 accounts?

[Mr. Tastix]

I didn't say remove exactly, and I've heard of someone deleting over 10,000 accounts so 650 vs. 10,000? 10K owns 650.

[Wasted]

No, because if Jay says deleting accounts is a bad Idea, and Bullchicken is on this forum, then it is bad to delete accounts. Therefore, 650 > 10K.

[Mr. Tastix]

No, because if Jay says deleting accounts is a bad Idea, and Bullchicken is on this forum, then it is bad to delete accounts. Therefore, 650 > 10K.

Meh, I give up. If you're not going to bother reading the whole text of my post then don't bother replying.

[James]

Ever heard of the term: lurker?

[Mr. Tastix]

Ever heard of the term: lurker?

No, please update me on it's meaning.

[Kaiden]

I'll give you a dictionary definition to help you out:

To lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.

[IamTheYellowWizzard]

No

[Mr. Tastix]

I'll give you a dictionary definition to help you out:

To lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.

And these inactive members are lurkers are they? So tell me then, who the fuck waits in "concealment" for over 3 years? And how could that wait in concealment if I found them...

[Cereal]

No

Thanks for the contribution.


What's the problem with cleaning up the member list a bit?

[Mr. Tastix]

No

Thanks for the contribution.


What's the problem with cleaning up the member list a bit?

It'd be nice, but as ~Cozmo~ said, it would be hard to delete 600+ accounts. Not necessarily ban those accounts, just delete them.

Or you could just purge all those with 0 post count and that'd automatically delete all of the accounts with 0 post count.

My real suggestion is to be a bit more strict on Forum Activeness. This Forum is one of best DX Communities out there and it's wasted because only a few people actually post.

You want to keep Deus Ex alive don't you? Well then I believe, you actually have to get in there and get a more-than active Forum going. Sure, 100 active members is good, but having at least 50% of your total Member Counts even better.

[Cereal]

There are ways to mass delete users who fall under certain specifications, IE: A user who registered before *date* and has 0 posts.

But again, it's really not up to me and it doesn't affect me as a member of the board, it's just what I would do for mine.

[Mr. Tastix]

There are ways to mass delete users who fall under certain specifications, IE: A user who registered before *date* and has 0 posts.

But again, it's really not up to me and it doesn't affect me as a member of the board, it's just what I would do for mine.

Yes, it's called "pruning." You can do with posts and members. And it's not my decision either, I just think it'd make the Forum nicer.

[Wasted]

"You want to keep Deus Ex alive don't you?"

If you prune, you killl BullChicken.

If you kill BullChicken, you kill life.

Therefore,

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Please stfu, you have already given up remember, BullChicken owns you, not deleting a few members won't kill dx.

[Dae]

In theory deleting these ~200 users will make the forum work quicker, but in practice you will not notice any difference.
To increase speed and decrease the database size I might delete all the .ini's and .log's users copied as text into their messages.
Talking about these accounts. I know some people who registered just to browse forums from time to time, e.g. my Russian friends (Legus, ImDrunk, Flutter, hard.Gamer and many more) or aidivn, Duffman, Fireburn ([A]lex's friend). Some are history ("zeropaid customs", Kynazo, [Ai][Kingz]Bob).
However, yes, I will delete inactive accounts some day (registration requires e-mail confirmation for activation) and accounts without posts which weren't used for 2 years or more.

[Fireburn]

NOES!
DONT DELETE ME!
YOU WILL KILL MA LIVE!

[Alex]

Now he has a post, thus you cannot delete him when he becomes inactive

[Dae]

See, what I told you!

[Wasted]

Can some admin email BullChicken and get him to post?

He r teh legend.

[Mr. Tastix]

Ok then, now get the other 599 people to post one post.

[MrBlackDX]

If your going to delete anyone, just leave it to 0 posters

And get these lurkers to make some random crappy 1 post

[Cureless_Poison]

Im an active member What do i win? not being deleted off the forums for having a usless un-used acount?

[clyzm]

You win:

a new LIFE!

[Dae]

I can't believe that there are still newbs who don't distinguish "forum registration" and "joining the clan"

[MainMan]

I can't believe that there are still newbs who don't distinguish "forum registration" and "joining the clan"

Wait... so this means that I'm not in [A]?

[Wasted]

Gotta admit, that Bout guy owns.

[The RZA]

lol, i saw this guy in a server today.