To delete 0 posts users or not?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by cpvr, Nov 25, 2011.

  1. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    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?
     
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  2. BamaStangGuy

    BamaStangGuy Administrator

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    No
     
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    gallitin Regular Member

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

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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

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    Not done it so far, have no plans to either
     
  6. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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

    Cerberus Admin Talk Staff

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    I delete them after 3 months also. Its one of the settings in the vbulletin pruning deal. So 0 posts after 3 months you got to go. Most times 0 posters are spam bots that failed anyway. I mean anyone who is really a person would have posted by then. Fake site stats are pretty lame in my opinion
     
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    Brandon Regular Member

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

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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    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.
     
  10. ashimashi

    ashimashi Regular Member

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    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.
     
  11. LunarScorpio

    LunarScorpio The Counselor

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    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.
     
  12. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    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?
     

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