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 FireBird
Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital |
10/16/2006 05:22:14 PM |
Was scrolling through all the userNames today in case a User Name Challenge came up. Wow, over 50,000 names. But........ I'd bet that over half of them are inactive and probably a third are inactive and have never been used. Wonder why the inactive accounts are kept? Maybe a numbers thing for advertisers? I'm not talking about ones with pics, but those that have existed for a couple of years with no activity. There must be thousands of those. Wow. Wait til after the challenge to delete them. hehehehehehe I've found a few good ones!
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 darnok
Nikon D200 |
10/16/2006 05:48:00 PM |
| The problem with deleting old accounts is that someone might come back after a long absence and want to start to participate again. |
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Elvis_L
Canon EOS-30D |
10/16/2006 06:15:37 PM |
Originally posted by Raziel:
The problem with deleting old accounts is that someone might come back after a long absence and want to start to participate again. |
true but many have never done anything at all such as vote or submit and haven't loged in in a long time(i asume since we can't see that) |
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jahoward
Nikon D300 |
10/16/2006 06:42:21 PM |
I agree, if you haven't logged in in 3 years, then your account should be erased. Better yet, if you haven't voted, commented, or have any uploaded photos, your account should be erased after one year of not logging in. If you have commented, voted, or uploaded then you're grace period is three years.
Let's clean up the list :) |
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larryslights
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi |
10/16/2006 06:50:26 PM |
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
Originally posted by Raziel:
The problem with deleting old accounts is that someone might come back after a long absence and want to start to participate again. |
true but many have never done anything at all such as vote or submit and haven't loged in in a long time(i asume since we can't see that) |
I know of one account where the person signed up, left a comment that my photo was boring and has never done anything ever again. No more comments, no votes, no challenge entries. I guess my photo really inspired them.
Edit - oops, sorry, I just looked at his profile, he left 9 more comments two months later.
Message edited by author 2006-10-16 19:33:51.
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robs
Canon EOS-20D |
10/16/2006 07:12:39 PM |
| Clean it up - Besides, I want rob as my user name :-)) |
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gaurawa
Apple iPhone |
10/16/2006 08:06:37 PM |
Originally posted by Raziel:
The problem with deleting old accounts is that someone might come back after a long absence and want to start to participate again. |
I created my account in sep,2002, but got my first digital camera in june,2004. I wouldn't have liked my profile being deleted because of inactivity |
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 crayon
Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera |
10/16/2006 09:21:45 PM |
| some other sites that offer free membership requires that their free members login to the site at least once every 3 months or the account will be deleted. I think this is fair, to weed out ghost or inactive accounts. Should a user decides to return a year later, he/she can always create a new account. What's the fuss? |
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yanko
Canon EOS-5D Mark II |
10/16/2006 09:38:36 PM |
Instead of just deleting inactive accounts how about just flagging them? If an account is flagged as inactive it simply doesn't show up in the list. When that person logs back in the account automatically becomes active again and is treated as such.
Message edited by author 2006-10-16 21:39:00.
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livitup
Nikon D70 |
10/16/2006 09:45:17 PM |
I think a big part of the problem with deleting accounts here is that they try very hard to maintain continuity in challenge results, etc. If you delete a person's account you orphan all their challenge entries, etc. I know they have deleted accounts in the past for "bad" people, but I imagine that's why they don't do it often.
Now if the person has never entered a challenge at all, then that's a different story, but even if they vote in only one challenge, then you orphan all their votes. I'm not sure how the system handles that. All and all, it seems like D&L set up the system to maintain a certain level of perminance.
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crayon
Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera |
10/16/2006 10:21:18 PM |
Originally posted by livitup:
I think a big part of the problem with deleting accounts here is that they try very hard to maintain continuity in challenge results, etc. If you delete a person's account you orphan all their challenge entries, etc. I know they have deleted accounts in the past for "bad" people, but I imagine that's why they don't do it often. |
Understandable. The quickest way is to keep challenge entries intact. Inactive account can still be deleted. Isn't this how it is currently done, by the way?
As Yanko suggested above about a flag feature, I think an even more useful feature would be to include a User Last Login date and timestamp on all user's Profile page. |
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