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Purging Dead Accounts

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  • 10-11-2008 9:34pm
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    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭


    Is it possible? Im after reading the AH thread about subscribing and considering work is very quiet and its only boards that gets me through the day without murdering workmates out of boredom, I think its time to subscribe to give something back.

    One of the features i'd be most interested in is the S&S forum the ability to change my username, because, lets be honest, its a bit stupid and doesnt really mean anything/have any relevance.

    After looking throught the Members List, a few of the names I thought of (such as just shortening to stee) are taken, yet this member has no posts and hasn't been active since 2002.

    Is automatically purging inactive accounts possible without having someone looking through each name for post count/last active date. I dunno, maybe members with 0 or 1 (spam bots etc) posts and not active in the last 12 months? I'd also love to know of the 147,471 registered users how many are active boards users, but that wouldnt be the main reason for asking.

    Maybe there is an argument for keeping them, maybe its a lot of hassle just to please one poster, maybe someone might make a mistake and delete all :eek:, but thought i'd ask, thanks.
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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,307 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    It is on occasions possible for the Admins to re-assign a user name, usually in cases like that guy's where there have only been a handful of posts, if any, and the account hasn't been used in some time. Obviously you have to be a subscriber first and then you can make your case for a name change.


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    yep, it's really just bad practice to auto purge accounts, and doing it manually would be a pain. but as zaph said, there are occassions where admins will recycle a username upon a subscribers request. in fact, i'd bet you could have the username from your example with no problems. SUBSCRIBE!


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    #4
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    John originally joined in 1998 and never posted. I ate his username with some fava beans and a nice chianti.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Some lurkers rarely, if ever, post. They register to stop the ads, and so that they can use a custom skin. And they never ever post. You purge their account, and I doubt they'd be the happist. It'd be more productive if we just purged the accounts belonging to the liberal hippies: feedback would be fun for about 2 weeks.


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    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    the_syco wrote: »
    Some lurkers rarely, if ever, post. They register to stop the ads, and so that they can use a custom skin. And they never ever post. You purge their account, and I doubt they'd be the happist. It'd be more productive if we just purged the accounts belonging to the liberal hippies: feedback would be fun for about 2 weeks.

    But it's hard to be a 'long time reader, non poster' for 10 years, (eg in the case of john). Old John probably forgot he registered here, and when he does remember, he's going to be like "Wtf?, I must be crazy, I thought i registered, yet someone else is using my username", when in fact it's just New John being a robber, but he need not know that.

    Fool the infideles.


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    John wrote: »
    John originally joined in 1998 and never posted. I ate his username with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

    You'll always been John2 in my eyes.


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    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    the_syco wrote: »
    Some lurkers rarely, if ever, post. They register to stop the ads, and so that they can use a custom skin. And they never ever post. You purge their account, and I doubt they'd be the happist. It'd be more productive if we just purged the accounts belonging to the liberal hippies: feedback would be fun for about 2 weeks.

    It's easy to determine if a long time lurker has been logging in recently. In that case the a/c wouldn't be purged.


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    /looks for old usernames to squat


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    #10
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I saw the title of this thread and thought somebody wants somebody's name!

    Are you no longer noble, stee? :)


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    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    the_syco wrote: »
    It'd be more productive if we just purged the accounts belonging to the liberal hippies:

    Sweet, so when are we purging 6th?


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    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Sweet, so when are we purging 6th?

    I ain't no hippy!


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    #13
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Dades wrote: »
    Are you no longer noble, stee? :)

    I'm afraid not. :(


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    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Dades wrote: »
    I saw the title of this thread and thought somebody wants somebody's name!

    Are you no longer noble, stee? :)
    I thought it was nobless T.
    Which makes sense in a way. Letters dont have genitalia.
    But just stee as a username?
    My real question is why was it taken in the first place?
    :confused::confused::confused:


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I thought it was no, bless tee. I just thought he was a very religious golfer. Either that or it's no bless tee which would mean he's anti-religious golfer who is very poor at structuring sentences.


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    #16
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    My real question is why was it taken in the first place?
    :confused::confused::confused:

    Stee being short for stephen, most people spelling it ste, which i've always read as 'steh' for some reason, hence the extra 'e'
    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    he's anti-religious golfer who is very poor at structuring sentences.

    That's it exactly, I just assumed it was too cryptic for people to get. The name stays.


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