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Dormant Accounts

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    #32
    Hobart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Hobart


    Originally posted by flogen
    i dont get it....

    Flogen
    No you don't do you?


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    #33
    Ste.phen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    more time than sense...


    (nerrrrrrrrrrrd!)


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    #34
    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Originally posted by flogen
    i dont get it....

    Flogen

    I believe this describes your entire boards experience. Well done flogen; The first step is realising you have a problem.


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    #35
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    You need an account to play the arcade games, many non-posters may be using this facility, indeed I don't recognise many names in the arcade hi scores as regular posters.

    So you could be quite actively using boards and not posting. The same for PMing or even just reading.

    I registered, posted once or twice, didn't come back for ages and then posted alot more (ALOT more).

    If you register an account and forget thepass or something, maybe contact an admin to free it?


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    #36
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,411 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I propose that Dev confiscates all the money in the dormant accounts and use it for hte next* mods beers. Damn, there is no money .....


    * Well first to be honest.


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    #37
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    syke, thats why it should stand for LOG INS, so if someone doesnt log-in for over 1 or 2 years their account is deleted, or they are given afew days to log-in before its deleted.
    quote:
    Originally posted by flogen
    i dont get it....

    Flogen

    No you don't do you?

    No.
    more time than sense...


    (nerrrrrrrrrrrd!)

    Oh, wait. I do now.
    I believe this describes your entire boards experience. Well done flogen; The first step is realising you have a problem.

    I was actually just refering to DeVs post, I got the hang of boards.ie a while back, but thanks for your concern anyway... its good to know people care.

    Flogen


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    #38
    Dustaz
    Registered Users Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Originally posted by flogen
    I got the hang of boards.ie a while back,

    You really do believe that, dont you?


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    #39
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Dustaz, leave the poor guy alone. He just wants to become a mod. That is what boards is about. Every week post up a suggestion for a new board and some day your dream will come true. The exclusive mod board is nearly within his grasp.


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    #40
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Hark, i can see it, past yonder hills...... Brazil...

    yes Dustaz I do, how you getting on yourself? what do you think of my original idea?? any different than what you seem to think of me?

    Flogen


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    #41
    smoke.me.a.kipper
    Registered Users Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    what have dormant accounts ever done to you?


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    #42
    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Wont somebody please think of the children!?


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    #43
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    90+% accounts that are over a year old and haven't been posted on will never be posted on. If someone decides to come back 2 years later and his a/c is gone, i'm sure hit wouldn't be too much of a problem to re-register.


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    #44
    suppafly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭suppafly


    i reckon if they haven't logged into boards in a set period of time then they should be deleted cuz thats means that the people who just browse boards and don't post won't get deleted cuz they'll be logging in. there ya go problem solved


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    #45
    Exit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    You don't have to log in to browse.


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    #46
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Originally posted by Exit
    You don't have to log in to browse.

    unless you have a subbed menu, which is all I ever use


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    #47
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Originally posted by Exit
    You don't have to log in to browse.
    You do to send PMs, play games and see who is online.


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    #48
    Exit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Yes, yes you do.


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    #49
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Hmm, most people seem to just be reading the first post, then replying, i think this is a great idea, as all those unused accounts are using up boards.ie's server space, correct?


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    #50
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Id say they are Raphael, and even if its only afew kb per account, there are thousands of dormant ones which are probably not even being browsed on... it all adds up

    Flogen


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    #51
    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    They're using up hundreds, possibly thousands, of kilobytes! Something must be done!! Has anyone got an old floppy disk lying about? Quick, before the server goes down!

    Chill out guys... the spam on this thread has probably used up as much space as 20 dormant accounts.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



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    #52
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    yes, but there are probably thousands of dormant accounts, as i said. it all adds up, who knows, there could be a megabite worth of stuff!!!!

    seriously though, it does take up some space, it, as sangre pointed out, could possibly take up a nick, there is no need for un-unused (used is including those just logged into) accounts, and if someone comes back 2 years after registering to find their account gone, they can just re-register. It might help people who are looking for a certain user, the name of which evades them, if there is only 500 pages of names rather than 770+.... as the great John R. Tesco once said 'every little helps'

    Flogen


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    #53
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Let's not argue about disk space. It's irrelevant and frankly nobody's problem but ours.


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    #54
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Just came across a thread with someone wanting to change their name to JC but
    it was already taken. I think this is a prime example of an a/c that shud be recycled.
    JC's stats r 1 post since registering in 2001, but funnily enough his post was from 2000.Appologies if JC is a silent member, not picking on you, just happened upon it.

    JC
    Newbie
    Registered: May 2001
    Posts: 1 (0.00 per day)



    11-12-2000 13:45


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    #55
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    i think the use of nicks can be quite a problem, as stekelly pointed out.
    And it will give a proper reflection of the amount of users here, and make it easier to search through them

    Flogen


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