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[Phillyman]

I sent out multiple warnings to every member that has registered at Retromags that a mass pruning was coming.

Some of you decided to sign in .....others didnt!

700+ Members were pruned from the forums as of a few minutes ago.


The criteria was as follows

Less then 1 Post (means 0 posts)
AND!
Has not signed on within the past year (October 10th, 2006)

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, I figure at least 500 of those members were probably spam bots anyways.


Next Pruning will take place mid January 2008!

[Phillyman]

Well its been about 3 months since the last pruning, today was the scheduled date to prune inactive accounts

Anyone who had 0 posts and had not signed on to Retromags since 1-10-2007 got deleted today.

Easiest way to not get pruned is to make sure you have a post!

93 Members deleted......Next Pruning scheduled for April 10th 2008

[Schloss Ritter]

I keep thinking of doing this for another forum that I co-admin. The other admins and founder are never around anymore, so I'm reluctant to do it without consulting the others.

[Phillyman]

I keep thinking of doing this for another forum that I co-admin. The other admins and founder are never around anymore, so I'm reluctant to do it without consulting the others.

A while back we were getting hit hard by spam bots, I would say for about 8 months that each day 5-7 spam accounts were being created. I figure that if someone has no posts and hasn't been here in a year......well they probably aren't coming back....lol

Besides the number of registered members means nothing if 99.9% of them don't participate

Speak up people, I am not gonna bite you if you post :laughing:

[wildlele]

Totally agree, lets get some more conversations going here folks!

[Rogue]

Totally agree, lets get some more conversations going here folks!

Yeah!!!

But not really here... I mean... in another thread... right?

XD

[Phillyman]

On April 10th 2008 we will be Pruning inactive accounts again. If I was to do it today it would affect 155 people. I have sent off emails to people who are about to be deleted.

[angevil]

Good that you sent e-mails before deleting accounts

Well, now I also found out the 55 character(S) rule, lol

[SuperCheeser]

I'm new to this, what do you mean by this Purning? I'm sorry if i'm disturbing but I never heard of such a thing.

[Phillyman]

I'm new to this, what do you mean by this Purning? I'm sorry if i'm disturbing but I never heard of such a thing.

Pruning = Deleting

Every 3 months, I run a program that looks for members that have no posts and have been inactive for 365 days, if they meet both of those requirements, I delete them from this website. You don't need to worry as you have posted, so even if you go inactive for 365 days, you still don't meet the 0 posts requirement

[Phillyman]

157 Members bit the dust early this morning, Next Pruning is July 10th

[E-Day]

I can't wait!

[Twist]

To kick "members" out? lol. I don't think every 1 month this should happen but whatever I am nobody.

[Phillyman]

To kick "members" out? lol. I don't think every 1 month this should happen but whatever I am nobody.

Not every month......Every 4 months

If you think about it, if you joined up to this site .......didn't make even 1 post.......and then haven't been here in 365 days......what are the chances that you are coming back ever?

The easiest way to avoid this is to just post 1 topic or reply

[Phillyman]

238 Inactive members deleted!

Next Pruning October 10th 2008

[konnichiwa]

Aah lucky that I am not kicked out.

[minglw]

I like the pruning method you're using. This is good way to remove the spam bots.

[farmdoggg]

People that got deleted don't understand the importance of old skool nintendo power action

[Phillyman]

234 Inactive Members Deleted

Next Pruning January 10th 2009

[Crazylightsaber]

People that got deleted don't understand the importance of old skool nintendo power action

How right you are.