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JohnMurga · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 03:53 Post subject: Massive user clean up

Hi,

I have just completed a huge clean up of users who had never posted.

This means that people who have been unable to post because they forgot their password and miss typed their e-mail address, or those with hung accounts can now re-register and find their names available again.

I did not delete users who registered in the last two week.

All in all I think it was about 12,000 users.

Cheers
John de Murga

Shep · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 840 Location: GIRT-BY-SEA

Why would so many create an account, then not post?

puppyiso · Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 586

Judgement day, Judge Dredd?

Béèm · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 07:03 Post subject:

Shep, then there are those who post, get advice and never react on the issue.
You tell me what's going on in their minds. Rolling Eyes

Shep · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 840 Location: GIRT-BY-SEA

Béèm · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 07:34 Post subject:

Well plausible, yes:
people which are rude
people with no education
people lacking forum etiquette.

people to be deleted, as they take space on the server, well difficult to judge.

Makoto · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 07:47 Post subject:

There were also probably a bunch of spambot/spammer accounts in there, as well, just waiting to be used (we've seen some of them wait eight months or even over a year). Neutral

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

JohnMurga · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 11:26 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3013 Location: Oregon

I commend John for his efforts and I have on occasion lost passwords due to crashes. I have the bad habit of not backing them up.
But lets use an example.
You are a member who has lost his password.
You cannot log in and when you try to create a new account, you are not able to since the forum software looks at your mac/internet address and sees you as already being a member.

So deletion of non-posting accounts/members allows them to be able to again gain access to the forum so they can post.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

John you own the place so don't get me wrong now!

But as I remember if one are not a member and don't log in as member then some parts are not seen. Off topic maybe and spam reports?

but that is how you wanted so maybe these people wanted to read the off topic stuff but not contribute?

8-bit that was a good way to see it too

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

@nooby

This should keep you busy for a while:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Dougal · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 15:27 Post subject:

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

John thank you for keeping the site running in an efficient manner.

for anyone who might be interested regarding passwords, something I've found helpful is to have all my passwords the same. MD5 algorithms or blowfish? what i do need is to remember it. A 6 or 8 string of letters and numbers or symbols will as I understand provides reasonable security and for greater strength just include numbers and symbols or increase the string to 10.

Flash · Posted: Sat 20 Aug 2011, 16:46 Post subject:

Alienjeff, you aren't a moderator of this forum so you don't have to look at every post. If nooby irritates you, ignore his posts.