Do you prune inactive members?

[bxflow]

I was just wondering how many of you delete users of your forums who are inactive for a certain period of time?

I only did it once, deleted every user with like 4-5 months of inactivity
Ended up wit like 3000 users left and now almost at 5000, I would of had like 10,000 users by now if i didn't delete them.


do you guys do this or no?
if you have around how many users total have you deleted?

 

[barcodenation]

The only thing I do to inactive members are members of our staff. If they're inactive for 2 weeks I mail them. If they're an uploader and don't respond i demote them. If it's other staff members i generally wait at least a month of no response unless I already know why they're absent. There's way to many regular members to go through for inactivity.

 

[FancyPants]

I just make a user group inactive and when they want to be back they pm me and i put them back

 

[Daniel]

Yes, IMHO its better to have less users, but activity. What's the point in having 10k users when only 1k of them returns to your site.

Delete the other 9k imo

 

[RT]

Delete them if you don't care about states.

 

[Derka]

I deleted all 0 posts accounts awhile back.

 

[Royal King]

The only thing I do to inactive members are members of our staff. If they're inactive for 2 weeks I mail them. If they're an uploader and don't respond i demote them. If it's other staff members i generally wait at least a month of no response unless I already know why they're absent. There's way to many regular members to go through for inactivity.

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Deleting them will be a good idea but what if someone has gone for a holiday? :S

 

[FSL]

well delete them :P

 

[shanit]

delete them awll

 

[jayfella]

Its kind of a mixed-bag really. Personally im not very active on a lot of forums, but i have an account. I suppose one way to do it is to prune users not active for 6+ months - i guess that would yield the best result in terms of removing "inactive" users. Deleting users with a postcount of < 1 might actually remove a few active but quiet users. Most people are lurkers, but nevertheless, download the content you posted, which in the end, is what your uploaders did their job for.

 

[Daniel]

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Deleting them will be a good idea but what if someone has gone for a holiday? :S

If someone are going to not be online for a while (holiday etc) they should inform the administrator of the board.

If not, it's their problem if they lose their positions

 

[Jesse]

I doubt most do. Then they cannot brag about having 10000 forced registered users