Member clean-out!

Post by **Oliver** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 12:54 am

Some of you may have noticed that we've suddenly lost about 40 members

In case you care/were wondering, I deleted any user that had registered up until a month ago but had not activated their registration. This also means they did not have any posts.

It should have reduced the database size a bit, too, with any luck.

Cheers,

Oliver

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 9:53 am

cheeky buggers!

fancy registering and not posting, just plain lazy

Post by **Oliver** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 10:13 am

Not posting is bad enough, but they hadn't even activated their registrations.

Buggers!

Oliver

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 12:08 pm

Or registered pissed and then forgot that they had registered.....

Cheers,
Greg

Post by **Oliver** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 12:33 pm

Surely people don't get pissed and browse this forum.

Tell me it ain't so

Oliver

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 1:25 pm

nah, course not.

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 3:03 pm

nah that would really be bad form!!!

Fancy drinking and typing

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 8:26 pm

Burpppp......What?

Friar · Post by **Friar** » Thursday Oct 06, 2005 10:48 pm

Fancy drinking, that's umbrellas and such isn't it?

Typing's hard enough without spilling beer let alone getting a plastic giraffe stuck up your nose.

Friar

Post by **Oliver** » Tuesday Mar 28, 2006 2:56 pm

Well, another 40 who had registered between the end of November and the end of February but hadn't activated their registration are now no longer.

Oliver

Post by **Oliver** » Saturday Apr 15, 2006 1:57 pm

And there go another 46 users.

Between the end of February and the end of March 34 people had registered but not activated their registration. The vast majority of these were "spam", or automatic registrations with a web address in their profile, designed to boost rankings on search engines.

Then I deleted a further 12 of these phantom registrations from the start of this month alone!

Nothing is ever easy.

Oliver