non-users of TS

[wilko333]

There are a lot of registered members to TS (over 4000), but a lot of them have never posted at all, surely these unused accounts are taking up unnecessary space on the webspace? Maybe if an account is not used for a certain period of time (maybe 6 months?) it should be removed...

[Onslo]

We generally don't delete accounts unless the owner asks us to, this way we avoid upsetting people.

The accounts are held in a database, and to be honest do not take up much room at all, certainly nothing that would trouble the server anyway.

It is possible to write seom code that would do what you suggest, but it's not really an issue so it's never been done.

'Slo

[Tia]

Maybe some stats of active and non-active posters would clarify the situation

Imagine if all 4000 suddenly started posting regularly!

[silver]

post count for last 2 weeks

June 14th, 2004 49
June 15th, 2004 115
June 16th, 2004 102
June 17th, 2004 113
June 18th, 2004 98
June 19th, 2004 96
June 20th, 2004 158
June 21st, 2004 113
June 22nd, 2004 116
June 23rd, 2004 136
June 24th, 2004 115
June 25th, 2004 90
June 26th, 2004 152
June 27th, 2004 135

in last 2 weeks 204 different users posted

Sil

PS, it's hard to know which accounts to delete, since sometimes peeps do return after a long break,. the amt of space taken up on the server is v small for each account

[Tia]

204 different posters posting in 2 weeks is good!

the 4000 members is a bit misleading