Why not do some old member pruning?

[Ryan]

Does AT ever to member pruning - you know, eliminating members who joined, have not posted in 6 months, and have fewer than 15 posts? Would it save any forum resources?

Sorry, Euthanasia is still illegal.

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[Spyro]

Why not do some old member pruning?

Hmmmm.... Ahhhh....... Yes.......

Let's start with you and then work our way down :evil:

Seriously though, I don't think so.

 

[Azraele]

They like the bigger numbers. It sounds better to say you have 100,000 members rather than 10,000.

I personally, am for pruning, but I don't think it'd happen.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Azraele
They like the bigger numbers. It sounds better to say you have 100,000 members rather than 10,000.

I personally, am for pruning, but I don't think it'd happen.

Exactly.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Azraele
They like the bigger numbers. It sounds better to say you have 100,000 members rather than 10,000.

I personally, am for pruning, but I don't think it'd happen.

Agreed.

Also, if they "pruned" old members, then some new person could sign up under the username of a famous old person that stopped visiting, and pretend to have come back (I hope that's coherent 😱). Anyway, I also think that it probably won't be happening.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: Azraele
They like the bigger numbers. It sounds better to say you have 100,000 members rather than 10,000.

I personally, am for pruning, but I don't think it'd happen.

Agreed.

Also, if they "pruned" old members, then some new person could sign up under the username of a famous old person that stopped visiting, and pretend to have come back (I hope that's coherent 😱). Anyway, I also think that it probably won't be happening.

When I wanted to change my name from luckster to lucky but lucky was taken by some guy who hadn't visited in like 2 years the mods just deleted their account. 🙂

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Lucky
When I wanted to change my name from luckster to lucky but lucky was taken by some guy who hadn't visited in like 2 years the mods just deleted their account. 🙂

Well, I guess if you do... things... to make yourself favorable to the moderators, they will make exceptions sometimes. 😉

 

[bendixG15]

Well, I guess if you do... things... to make yourself favorable to the moderators, they will make exceptions sometimes. <http://forums.anandtech.com/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif>

And what do I sense from that remark ?????
tskkk ... tskk...tskkkk

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: bendixG15

Well, I guess if you do... things... to make yourself favorable to the moderators, they will make exceptions sometimes. <http://forums.anandtech.com/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif>

And what do I sense from that remark ?????
tskkk ... tskk...tskkkk

LOL, I'm just joking around... there was a quote from some guy that was along those lines; it was pretty funny. 🙂

 

[olds]

I am an old member. You want to prune me?
:Q

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I am an old member. You want to prune me? :Q

Yeah, I think that's what they were getting at... 🙁 😉