in reply to Deleting old users

I like the idea to delete users without any posts very much. Once I registered myself, I misstyped my emailaddress to a older invalid one and locked my username.
Boris

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Re^2: Deleting old users
by bradcathey (Prior) on Aug 08, 2004 at 13:23 UTC
    But when do you pull the plug? I say all this sounds a bit sketchy.

    —Brad
    "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton
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      That belogs to the gods, but I think three month without any post is a good start. The user should be informed about this when he registers himself and It could be repeated in the first email from pm.
      Boris
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        Be sure to keep user XP in the formula, or you might eliminate a saint who has never posted...

        bassplayer

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        Gotta disagree. Tilly is one perlmonks' most prolific posters, yet he disappears from time to time. As I understand it, his work sometimes requires that he refrain from posting on public forums, so there are long periods of silence. Had we enforced a "three months of silence" rule, Tilly would have been nuked and we would have lost one of perlmonks' most valuable resources. Furthermore, if a user is nuked and the namespace freed, how do we label the previous name-user's nodes in order to distinguish new-Tilly from old-Tilly?

        -Logan
        "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more."

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