Deleted 97 user accounts
Posted: 10 Sep 2016 12:58
Reading this will be a waste of your time, but for those that wonder what it takes to run an online community, read on and prepared to be bored.
Just FYI, in an effort to clean up the membership, I deleted 97 RideForum.NET user accounts today.
"Membership" is the best word I suppose, but I don't like that it conveys a formal club or organization that folks have joined. That's not what RideForum is, but I digress...
Most important, I did not delete any accounts that have posts associated with them. Even if just one post 10 years ago, that is part of our history and represents a "valid" user.
This was not any kind of effort to "police" the system! In fact, I don't think I've ever had to remove a real user's post. I've removed plenty of spammer posts over the years, though. Speaking of spammers, my effort today started with the idea that some of our "members" were probably just old spammer accounts. So I tried to figure out if I could accurately identify these accounts from the real user accounts.
There were a small number of obvious spammer accounts -- Russian or Chinese sourced accounts with odd email addresses on junk domains. I deleted those.
I deleted 41 accounts that were created before 2016 and never logged into. These "users" will never miss their account since they never used it--not even once.
I deleted 56 accounts that had 0 posts and have not logged in for more than 5 years. Many of these had old email addresses that bounced--meaning the user would not have been able to make a password reset request anyway. Again, no harm/no foul as these accounts had no history to them. So these folks can just re-create an account if they want to post. (Self-registration works as it should now...this was an issue in the "old days".)
If you have an "active" account, but are confused because you received an email about your account being deleted, do not worry. It means you had more than one account, and your old, inactive account was deleted.
At time of this post, we have:
311 | Members
82 | Members who have never posted
97 | Members who have logged in during 2016
67 | Members who have logged in during last 90 days
TOP 10 POST COUNTS:
troy: 3,010
ajayhawkfan: 1,197
Savage: 1,102
safiri: 860
Hank Moody: 604
Stu: 443
kendall_smith: 440
Hayden: 439
allkidd: 418
MacWildcat: 411
Not that post count is everything, but I'd like to give a big THANKS to all the folks who take the time to post up. You make this community great.
Just FYI, in an effort to clean up the membership, I deleted 97 RideForum.NET user accounts today."Membership" is the best word I suppose, but I don't like that it conveys a formal club or organization that folks have joined. That's not what RideForum is, but I digress...
Most important, I did not delete any accounts that have posts associated with them. Even if just one post 10 years ago, that is part of our history and represents a "valid" user.
This was not any kind of effort to "police" the system! In fact, I don't think I've ever had to remove a real user's post. I've removed plenty of spammer posts over the years, though. Speaking of spammers, my effort today started with the idea that some of our "members" were probably just old spammer accounts. So I tried to figure out if I could accurately identify these accounts from the real user accounts.
There were a small number of obvious spammer accounts -- Russian or Chinese sourced accounts with odd email addresses on junk domains. I deleted those.
I deleted 41 accounts that were created before 2016 and never logged into. These "users" will never miss their account since they never used it--not even once.
I deleted 56 accounts that had 0 posts and have not logged in for more than 5 years. Many of these had old email addresses that bounced--meaning the user would not have been able to make a password reset request anyway. Again, no harm/no foul as these accounts had no history to them. So these folks can just re-create an account if they want to post. (Self-registration works as it should now...this was an issue in the "old days".)
If you have an "active" account, but are confused because you received an email about your account being deleted, do not worry. It means you had more than one account, and your old, inactive account was deleted.
At time of this post, we have:
311 | Members
82 | Members who have never posted
97 | Members who have logged in during 2016
67 | Members who have logged in during last 90 days
TOP 10 POST COUNTS:
troy: 3,010
ajayhawkfan: 1,197
Savage: 1,102
safiri: 860
Hank Moody: 604
Stu: 443
kendall_smith: 440
Hayden: 439
allkidd: 418
MacWildcat: 411
Not that post count is everything, but I'd like to give a big THANKS to all the folks who take the time to post up. You make this community great.
