Hello living monks.

I happen to look from time to time at the Perl Monks Statistical Page. It pleases me, that this community is constantly growing (ca. 16750 reg. users as of this writing), but on the other hand, there seem to be MORE than a half of these Zombies. (ca. 8600 "Logged In Once, No Write Up")

Probably this has been discussed before, but I think if the time hasn't come yet, it surely WILL come, when we need to clean up this database.

I thought rather long about this issue and the more I think about it, the more positive I'm about the proposal. I suggest, that accounts that were used to only log in once (no writeups) and if that login happened more than one year ago, get automatically deleted.

I further suggest, that accounts that have loged in more than once and have some nodes, but the last login is more than 2 years away, get also deleted and their nodes fall to a user called "NodeLibrarian" - or whatever.

I appreciate your opinion on this.

Bye
 PetaMem

In reply to Perlmonks Zombies - Cleanup? by PetaMem

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