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Complete username purge?

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  • 01-11-2005 1:41pm
    #1
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭


    Folks,
    There must be hundreds of users registered here where either:
    • They have no posts at all.
    • They have had no activity for over a stupid amount of time. Take $onic for example, joined in 2002 and has had three posts. Searching has been disabled, but I'm guessing the 3 posts are all from 2002.

    Can we not just delete the other junk usernames? I'm sure there are quite a lot there that a new registrant might want to use*.

    *Plus they annoy me

    S.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    #2
    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    This has been discussed before, although with search down I can't look for it.
    I *think* the admins decided not to delete old, unused accounts.

    <edit>Aha, found it! </edit>


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    #3
    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    You just want the name $onic, don't you DON'T YOU!!


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    #4
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    When i first signed up to ask about RAM overclocking, i made 3 posts and then didn't make another for at least 6months (could've been longer, can't remember). Would that qualify as a dormant account that should be deleted?

    Or look at ropedrink, he hadn't posted for at least 2 years until he popped back very recently


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    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,247 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    This is one of those suggestions that gets made every 6 months and gets shot down each time. It's not as if those user accounts make any significant difference to the server loads so I can't imagine that deleting them would make a difference to performance.


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Sleepy wrote:
    It's not as if those user accounts make any significant difference to the server loads

    Certainly, they make less difference than this silly thread does. :)


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    #7
    garthv
    Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭garthv


    Aye, I signed up a few years ago and Ive only started to post heavily in the last year or so...
    What difference does it make anyway?


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    #8
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Is it that time again? Wow, the months just fly by so fast :)


    If $onic has 3 posts and we are going to delete his username, who will the posts be attributed to? Should we delete the posts too? Now what about the replies to those posts, or perhaps his posts started a thread or two, now what do we do with that thread? Pull the thread, watch things unravel...

    DeV.


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    #9
    combat_sombo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭combat_sombo


    bagsy devore if you do a purge.


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    #10
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    WizZard wrote:
    <edit>Aha, found it! </edit>

    Oh, dear. *Giggles unkindly at Hobart*


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    #11
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    If $onic has 3 posts and we are going to delete his username, who will the posts be attributed to?

    I can see the logic to both sides on this one. A lot of sites do purges of usernames to free up them for new users and old alike. To be honest, boards probably could do with letting some of them go. DeV makes a good point about what to replace them with. Why not substitute any purged names with another, random combination..say a poster with the name JoeBloggs hasn't posted in x time (whatever criteria is selected), couldn't the name be purged and replaced by JoeBloggs12343245, thus freeing up JoeBloggs for someone else? Just a thought.


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    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    How about all the users with 0 posts that regged over 2 years ago?

    Can't see the harm in that...


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    #13
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Won't someone think of the newbies?


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    #14
    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    That'd be a no.


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