To delete 0 posts users or not?

Well, I thought this was an interesting question because how many users here actually delete accounts - of those users who have failed to make any type of posts on the community? Do you delete them? Or do you see no point in deleting them?

 

Absolutely not, your deleting someone that may potentially post at some point, doubt they will if the have to register again.

 

I delete zero posters with no activity for 90 days. I like keeping the numbers as true as possible for my advertisers.

 

Not done it so far, have no plans to either

 

I like this one. Do you even send out emails to those users before you delete them?

 

I have in the past but that was more like purging the database to remove spam accounts.

 

I don't even bother as Cerberus said they're most likely failed spammers or people who just signed up to download an attachment or something like that. I've yet to have one person email saying they couldn't login due to a deleted account.

For vBulletin the awaiting email confirmation group is pruned every 30 days for zero posters.

 

I don't do it now because my forum is still quite new but in the future I will do this to help clean the forum up.

 

I usually do it if they haven't been active for three months or so. I generally do send out e-mails beforehand and I've only ever gotten one response.

 

Did you set up your own cron to prune the users that haven't activated their account in 30 days? Or how did you do this?