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istvan



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13th March, 2004 at 21:26:39 -

No this has nothing to do with the 'rules', or the ongoing JD vs SC arguement at the moment. Its got to do with the ammount of members here that may not be in use. What Im talking about his people who have signed up, downloaded a game than left the community for ever.

I dont know if this takes up much space on the server, but there are a hell of a lot of members who are 'inactive'. When trying to mail someone through the automatic mail selection, youll see the vast number of people, and it aint easy findin the one you want. YES I am aware that you can simple select the person through their profile, and you can also make a favourites list, but what about when someone wants to sign up, and they find that someone who isnt even currently using their account has used there desired name?

Just an idea that an 'Automatic Deletion' could take place if a user was inactive for too long. This should only apply to members who havent submitted anything. It might clear up some room on the server, shorten the mail list, and definately allow people to choose a desired name. Like I said, its just an idea, Ive theres some major flaw in my idea feel free to abuse me :]

Editted some spaces into it, so you can read it better ;]

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13th March, 2004 at 21:59:13 -

I am in the agreeing.

 
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istvan



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13th March, 2004 at 22:05:43 -

Hah, Ive found some major flaws in my spelling and grammar already...

 
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13th March, 2004 at 23:38:25 -

Sounds like a good plan to me.

 
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14th March, 2004 at 00:34:10 -

You got my vote.

 
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14th March, 2004 at 03:22:10 -

mine too, sounds great

 
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14th March, 2004 at 03:44:52 -

Me too!

 
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istvan



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14th March, 2004 at 04:06:14 -

With this kind of support I could run for governor!

 
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14th March, 2004 at 04:13:29 -

istvan for governor! Good idea, I just assumed there would have already been something like this coded already since I've never picked a name from that list. Now I know that there isn't, it's too good an idea to let it die!

 

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14th March, 2004 at 05:54:39 -

Personally Ive wondered about the same thing before. Its a good idea indeed.

 
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14th March, 2004 at 06:35:35 -

actually, i imagine that a single user account doesn't take up much space at all (what info has to be stored? name, password, email, registration date, age, and user level) so each account is probably only a few KB. that said, there are an awful lot of them so it probably all adds up.

but we all know who does the coding around here

 
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14th March, 2004 at 07:55:56 -

And just think how many CPU cycles it takes to search through 15000 of them. If we delete loads of inactive users, the website will be faster than a speeding mullet

 
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14th March, 2004 at 08:05:38 -

I actually suggested this to Clubsoft a few months ago, and he said that it wouldnt really be plausible, as some people might leave the community for a period of time, for, say, exams or something. I think it was Clubsoft anyway, might have been Mr Caster.

 
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14th March, 2004 at 08:37:12 -

It is common practice for webmasters to clean out the user databases every few months. If someone hasn't come back in, say, 6 months, then delete them. Place that as a warning on the register screen. If you delete 500 users who haven't been active in the past 6 months, maybe 10 of them will come back eventually, and it shouldn't be too much trouble for them to reregister. In the meanwhile, you save a LOT of server processing and make it much more convenient to private message people. Presumably on every single page here on the Daily Click, you have to do several lookups for the current user or for a different user. So on every page, several times you are searching through the thousands of users... well, if you've coded it well, you probably won't be doing that, but it still optimises things to have fewer users in the database

 
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14th March, 2004 at 09:29:50 -

Circy, It could work like this (as Istvan suggested really):

If a user has submitted nothing to the site, and their account has not been activated for some time (a few months maybe), then they should be deleted. If a user who has not submitted anything comes back after their account has been deleted, they just have to sign up a new one.

 
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