Inactive Users

[WerBackIII]

OK, the best we can do is to accounts that have never completed their registration.

 

[NearbyHermit]

But still i see membs only for Submitting resources and some just pop out of nowhere into posts

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Should inactive accounts be removed?

I think it's not necessary. It's just waste of time deleting hundreds and hundreds of inactive users.

 

[Hakeem]

Wait, did I specify that it should be automatic? Or have did everyone see it as a manual task?

 

[Kwaliti]

Necromancy much?

 

[Wolverabid]

This inquiry has long since been addressed.

~ Thread closed.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

So many Inactive people!

Members: 32,920, Active Members: 4,474...

Just look at how many inactive accounts that is...

32,920 - 4,474= 28,446 That's kinda bad, no?

I was wondering if there was anything anyone on the site could do about this?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

That is quite normal for a website not to have most of the users active. People come, people go. It is not something that just happens at Hive.

 

[Cheeder]

Perhaps if people would promote this website while on B-net we could get more people. However, the problem is not with getting more users but with attracting more map-makers with skills to share with aspiring game-creators here at the Hive.

 

[donut3.5]

A lot of people sign up for the Hive then never post or upload. What're you gonna do?
Anyways, there's been a thread on this, and it was decided the users will not be cleaned.
--donut3.5--

 

[Landy]

Perhaps if people would promote this website while on B-net we could get more people. However, the problem is not with getting more users but with attracting more map-makers with skills to share with aspiring game-creators here at the Hive.

Well
Im here not for mapmakin practice
Just to sit on forum and chat...

 

[Mini-Me]

Yes it would be lovely to have all the 32 920 members active. The hottest topic would be "server too busy". We would all love to visit hive and spend an hour or two together (due the loading times). Happy days . Let's send mass pm's and try to get them all active, sounds like a plan? Gogogo

 

[Hakeem]

Most of them probably never got the registration email, so there is no way to contact them.
Pretty useful, eh?

 

[Earth-Fury]

cleaning old accounts with 0 posts and no activity in years wouldn't be a problem, but why? Really, its not a problem, so why should there be a solution to it?

 

[brad.dude03]

Furthermore, a large number of those are inactive WC3Search accounts.

Before the merge, i'm pretty sure that the Hive had roughly 10 thousand registered members, and maybe 2000 active at most. HealingPoison did a post about it a long, long time ago.

 

[Hakeem]

cleaning old accounts with 0 posts and no activity in years wouldn't be a problem, but why? Really, its not a problem, so why should there be a solution to it?

Popular opinion.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34862
It was 50-50 for awhile, but shortly before it closed, there were a couple votes for yes.
If I ever make a forum, I'll delete any account that doesn't respond to the validation email within one week.

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

I was inactive, for an year, becouse i was bisy, so i think that not cleaning users is good

 

[PurgeandFire]

>cleaning old accounts with 0 posts and no activity in years wouldn't be a problem, but why? Really, its not a problem, so why should there be a solution to it?

The solution is the problem. That problem is resolved by ignoring the primary problem which created a solution. But the primary problem, isn't a problem.

Many just sign up and get resources, and probably more than half is from wc3search... Some also sign up to ask like one question.

 

[Gilles]

I joined a year ago and never posted until recently. I'm glad they don't clear!

I was inactive, for an year, becouse i was bisy, so i think that not cleaning users is good

Uhh, your join date is 2007, It can't have possibly been a year.

 

[Hakeem]

But you responded to the validation email within a couple minutes didn't you?
And how hard would it have been to just remake the account?

 

[Gilles]

This is true, but I got to keep my name!

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

Uhh oops, your right, maybe not a whole year

 

[Pins]

I am inactive since more than one year, and I don't even understand why I'm here at the moment
I wonder if there's any member who have even a slight idea of who I was...

 

[Kwaliti]

I've been inactive in the WC3 community for about -- what, 3 years or so under a different nick I forgot

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I r tEh was Inacteev for 10 Yeerz. Jeez...

So I guess there is no solution to clearing the 28k that decide to make our site look pretty inactive?

 

[Earth-Fury]

fake activity != real activity... clearing out old users is fake activity. Attracting more active users is real activity.

Why make fake activity when we can focus on real activity?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I am inactive since more than one year, and I don't even understand why I'm here at the moment
I wonder if there's any member who have even a slight idea of who I was...

PINS!!!

Awesome seing you here, I thought you would never join us again

 

[brad.dude03]

Who is this Pins fellow you seem so excited to see?

Also, no one gives a shit about the inactive users. We've come to this conclusion already.

 

[Kimbo]

bleh pins...
/me doesnt like the smell of pins.

And people come and go to get what they want here, some choose to be apart of the community, some dont, some im sure are dead or have life shit and bleh more important than here.

 

[Technomancer]

Brad, Pins is the legendary Skins Warlock from ages past.

 

[Ralle]

Yay just my thread. I love threads about what I should do and not do

I still think we should let them stay. Anyway 4000 of 28000 is actually quite impressive. Many websites have so many more inactive people than that.
Anyway. Consider this. The member table contains 28000 people and it occupies 7 megabytes of storage on the 120 Gigs server.
Why even think about wasting time by sorting the users?

Ralle

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Exactly, some people also return after ages of not doing anything at the site, it would be a shame to clear out the database of users.

 

[Pins]

Bwahaha werewulf, thou shalt name my smell by thy word stench and shalt bow down to the lord of wolves, FENRIR.

Never said I was back, just said I was passing by, hehe
Anyway I'll maybe do a lil re-introduction thread just for fun (and to stop being off topic here).
And please remember I was not really skilled as a skinner

 

[Matt540 sheep god!]

Members: 32,920, Active Members: 4,474...

Just look at how many inactive accounts that is...

32,920 - 4,474= 28,446 That's kinda bad, no?

I was wondering if there was anything anyone on the site could do about this?

This number does include people from wc3sear.ch, doesnt it? If it does, then thats not suprizing there are so many inactive people...last time I was there, it had...23,000 something registered users I think? Only a decent handful were that active to begin with there...and even if it simply include numbers from this site, it could just be people not caring about the forums, just wanting an account to comment or some such stuff.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

It includes both sites.

 

[Rui]

Maybe delete user accounts after 2 years of inactivity. I understand a year, but in two years the person has probably quit.

 

[brad.dude03]

Guys, this is isn't open for discussion, you heard Ralle: the user tables take up a very tiny portion of our space, and there's no way that it's worth it to go sifting through them.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Rui, some people just recently started using The Hive after being inactive since the start of 2004.

 

[Hakeem]

If you delete an account then don't you lose the posts that person made?
Either way, I don't think we should delete any account that has posts.
But I don't see the benefit in keeping accounts with fake email addresses.

 

[Technomancer]

I'm pretty sure the posts don't get deleted with the account, they just become 'guested'.

But yeah, purging the users is an unnecessary task that will be more hassle than it's worth. I say leave it.

 

[Josh]

Deleting all inactive accounts = OVER 9000!!! accounts to delete.

 

[Kwaliti]

And besides, it's useless.

 

[Taur]

Actually im very surprised it's only 4500 inactive... For a site that mods a game that is very old, I'd think at least 3/4 should be inactive. Ofc I dont know what classifies as inactive but if you look at wc3c:

Members: 19,368, Active Members: Only 550 (thank god)

Thats WAY more inactive members than we have...

 

[13lack.1)ragon]

Rui -> Maybe delete user accounts after 2 years of inactivity. I understand a year, but in two years the person has probably quit.

I second that notion. The person can just remake their account anyways, its no big hassle.

 

[Gilles]

It's no big hassle to re-make an account, it's a hassle to go delete 4000+ accounts. It's just not going to happen.

 

[brad.dude03]

Precisely, that sums it up. This is just a giant no.

 

[Hakeem]

I don't see why some people are completely against it, it's not very important, it's just something to keep things a little cleaner.
There isn't often a concern about the user database being too big and it isn't hard at all to delete empty accounts.
The only concern is that a name would be taken. It's not a big concern, but as a perfectionist, I'd do it.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Deleting users is not going to happen, the end. Go get your own site to purge Hakeem.

 

[Earth-Fury]

I really, really, REALLY have no idea why this thread is still alive.

Its a useless waste to remove old user accounts. I mean, deleting the ones with a last activity some time in the 1960's which have 0 posts wouldn't hurt anyone, but why? Its not like every name has been taken, like registering a .com domain name. Its just a large pool of members... it doesn't matter, it doesn't hurt anyone, and it doesn't create any kind of problem -- except to those LOOKING for a problem with it. "omg! this number of inactive users is too high!!!"... yeah... sure... whatever. Go debate why DOTA sucks / rocks / whatevers somewhere that isn't anywhere near me, as this comes close to the pointlessness and stupidity of those arguments.

Please, for god sakes people, give up this pointless and stupid debate...

 

[Hakeem]

Deleting users is not going to happen, the end. Go get your own site to purge Hakeem.

I'll pick the three words I posted that are closest to your post:

I'd do it.

<Insert well deserved flame here>

But seriously, Earth-Fury is right, I made this topic a couple months ago and it was closed for a reason. If you look at the poll on my thread then you'll see that most people would delete empty accounts. Ralle is not one of these people. It's not a debate, the 2 sides are gray and a slightly different shade of gray.

I strongly suggest this be merged with my thread and left closed.