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Post by JayBird »

As of 12th January 2004 at 12:29 GMT we have 8888 registered users.

Out of the 8888 registered users, 2994 users have never made a post.

And..

8061 users have 10 posts or less!

Not very interesting, but i'm bored :)

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Post by scorphus »

And 77 users made 50% of total posts and only 13 users made 25% of them.
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Post by teksys »

Why don't u guys just prune all those inactive users?
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

big member counts attract people?

lol idk :)
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Post by Pyrite »

I agree, prune those accounts.

I think it's the # of articles posted 78000 something that attracts people more.
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Post by jason »

That's more than likely the normal way of things on the net. People sign up, but don't do anything. Those numbers honestly look right. A small number are going to be very active. But as the total number grows, that small percentage equals larger numbers.
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Post by krash_control »

I don't think it's too good an idea to remove the accounts that don't post much, after all there are some people like me who just search for solutions rather than asking what has already been answered, and one main reason I register is so I can see all the new posts to read everyday. And I am sure there are a lot of people like me out there ;)
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Post by twigletmac »

There are other forums where I lurk (mozillazine.org for example) and have never posted. I'd be a bit annoyed if they trashed my user account because I do read a lot of the stuff on there and like to know which posts I haven't read yet. I did stop lurking on a forum that started insisting that you logged in each time you visited as they decided auto-login was a security risk - pain in the rear.

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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

uhh.. you could prune by last visit..

behold, the power of PHP

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$sql = "DELETE * FROM `phpbb_users` WHERE `posts` = 0 AND `lastvisit` > `1012003`";
mysql_query($sql);
or something along those lines
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Post by Roja »

teksys wrote:Why don't u guys just prune all those inactive users?
Because they take up a trivial amount of space, add considerable functionality to the people with those accounts, and discourage regular and repetitive visits?

I think the better question is why prune the inactive users?
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Post by patrikG »

If I recall correctly this site is being hosted by sponsors of devnetwork.net, which means the question of resources does not arise, otherwise the sponsors would be making noise and we'd all be feeling it.
Personally, since the forum was moved to the sponsor's server, I have never had any problems, be they bandwidth related or whatsoever.

As I understand it, this forum was created in the spirit of Open Source. This forum is contributing to people's understanding of PHP and has become a PHP resource as well - open to all.

The only thing I think reasonable is to write an auto-generated email to users whose account has been inactive (i.e. no visits, no posts, no nothing) for a specific amount of time and ask them to renew their membership, else that user-profile will be deleted.

So, what reason other than a misunderstood notion of sharing is left to prune users who don't post? I can't see any and I don't like the idea. If some people don't like to contribute, so be it - they have their reasons for coming here and I presume it has to do with wanting to learn about PHP.

Becoming elitist because you can is contrary to everything I've experienced on this forum. Those who do not post today are the posters of tomorrow.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Well said, patrik.

I never really pay attention to forum problems like this so I don't really have an opinion on the topic. I'm here to help who I can, when I can; regardless of who posted what, or why someone didnt post, or why newbies don't visit. ;)

But that's just me though.
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Post by infolock »

$sql = "DELETE * FROM `phpbb_users` WHERE `posts` = 0 AND `lastvisit` > `1012003`";
mysql_query($sql);
might wanna change that to 'lastvisit' < '10122003' unless you want to delete us all ;)
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

lol sorry, i was in java programming (*snore*) and the teacher was walking towards my comp.. had to type fast ;)
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