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Vishaan
07-16-2009, 05:25 PM
I know for a fact this has come up multiple times before, I just cannot remember the outcome for the life of me.

There are currently hundreds, if not thousands of completely unused accounts, sitting around, wasting space. Not to mention some of the members around the board want names that have been taken by someone ages ago when the server was running.

I think we should get a team of maybe 5-10 people to start listing people that have been inactive for over 6 months and have no posts. They could make a list of the people, give them to Nick, or someone else, and he could delete them.

This free's up alot of the names and clears the member data base. If no one else ewould want to do it I would. Its just annoying.


-Ego
kuzmin
07-16-2009, 05:46 PM
Yes please.
Nottz
07-16-2009, 05:53 PM
I'd help out with this I suppose. But I doubt it'll happen.
silvamjo
07-16-2009, 06:10 PM
sorry to say but this si stupid, making this would loads of people mad because u realize some ppl can come back and find their names taken, that'd be stupid. and if they did a mass prune everyone would take known people names
PureSkiller
07-16-2009, 06:14 PM
Old school people won't be removed. They're like the "well known" people, Also cause they've been here for a long time.

Also, Most accounts are botters from on the server.
ArmaLite
07-16-2009, 06:14 PM
He wouldn't need anyone to do that. Theres a search function inside of the VB-ACP that will only show users that have not had a 'last activity' since 'XX:XX:XX'.

Only accounts with 0 posts, non-premium, and non-ranked. (Oldschool, literary, gfx, etc.) should be deleted.
Vishaan
07-16-2009, 10:00 PM
sorry to say but this si stupid, making this would loads of people mad because u realize some ppl can come back and find their names taken, that'd be stupid. and if they did a mass prune everyone would take known people names

If you had a literate bone in your body you would have understood what I said. We're talking about the people who havn't been active, never have posted, and are useless to the forum

Old school people won't be removed. They're like the "well known" people, Also cause they've been here for a long time.

Also, Most accounts are botters from on the server.
Agreed


He wouldn't need anyone to do that. Theres a search function inside of the VB-ACP that will only show users that have not had a 'last activity' since 'XX:XX:XX'.

Only accounts with 0 posts, non-premium, and non-ranked. (Oldschool, literary, gfx, etc.) should be deleted.

Well then that should make things easier? I think Syndicate has the best point.
Nanoblade
07-16-2009, 10:01 PM
Why? It makes no difference whether they are removed are not.

Unecessary effort.
Vishaan
07-16-2009, 10:03 PM
Why? It makes no difference whether they are removed are not.

Unecessary effort.

Uh.

Frankly because I have seen about 30 members turned down on a name change because of someone who made an account in 2007 and has never posted? These people are active in the forums and are members of this community, the least we can do is change their name for them?

That and its an eye sore.