Deleting of Inactive users?

Do you ever delete inactive users from your board?
If so how long does it take for you delete them? I mean how long must they been inactive?
If you delete users do you delete thoose who have like 100-1000+ posts and been inactive for 2-3 years? Or only those with small amount of post or none posts?

 

I only delete unconfirmed users after a period of 90 days. This just keeps things clean.. Other than that I leave everyone alone.

 

I never delete any member. Ever. No matter what.

 

As much as "zero post members" and inactive users drive me crazy, I won't delete them.

 

We try to keep our member count around 75-80k (I don't remember how we picked the number), so I delete members that are inactive for about six months in order to keep it there.

 

Now what is the point in deleting an inactive member and why would you want to limit a forum from growing?

 

I'd also be interested in knowing as to why you'd want to keep your user count at a specifically selected number (or range).

 

hum....I wonder if they would be willing to post a link to my site saying anyone over the 75k-85k mark please join this forum

 

We don't care about how many users are registered. I run a live music tracker and we need Active Members to make our community work, not inactive ones. The tracker makes 6 mysql queries every time someone does an 'announce' to the site (that's for every peer on our tracker) and it queries our user table and it's own users table. I'd rather have it only have to 'search' through 80k users for info rather than 300k users for info.

And does a community really look more active to show that there are 300,000 registered users rather than 80,000? It's still the same number of users logged in, it's just one little number next to Members.

 

My point isn't to make things look good. When you got 80,000 registered members it doesn't matter...it is good. But I've had members come alive after 4 months with zero post.

 

Indeed. It sometimes takes a certain period of "inactivity" for these members to become active - odd but true.

 

Sure, so have we, but they have logged in and read the board usually. I'm talking about deleting users that haven't even logged in for over six months, not deleting members that simply haven't posted in six months. And really, they can just re-register if their account was pruned.

 

I prune account every other three weeks.

The user must have 0 posts and have not been logged in within that three weeks in order to qualify.

Because I do it so often, it only takes me about 10 minutes, if not less.

 

Same thing here. I'm paranoid about deleting things in general, really.

 

Really, why?

Do you think the member you deleted will come back sooner or later to find its account has been deleted?

 

Like you were told as a teenager, "once you start, you can't stop."

 

I truly don't see the sense in keeping members on the member roll who logged in one time to register, have never posted, and haven't been back in 6 months. The numbers don't make your site look any better. In fact, to me, when you have a high # of members, and only 20% of them are even active, that tells me the site is lacking.

So yeah, on the community forums that I've previously owned - after sending out at least one inactivity reminder, I did prune members with 0 posts, and no activity within 6 months of registering. If I ever own another community forum, I'll adhere to the same rules.

 

No, I don't delete. I only delete still validating accounts that haven't been confirmed which are at least 90 days old.

 

I don't delete any users.

Every registration is good for your forum, there's no real reason to delete.