Pruning Old Accounts

Tondollari · Post by **Tondollari** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:27 am

To renew interest in TR, it might be worth considering pruning old accounts.

Send out an email to all registered users saying that accounts that have been inactive for more than one calendar year will be closed in, say, 4 months. Members should log in so that their account will not be closed. This forum has been around for several years so some users might bite, log in, and possibly discuss TR.

I've seen another forum do this and it resulted in a sharp increase in member interest. Which was mostly a good thing.

Post by **Haplo** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:41 am

At TR we have a strict policy of not deleting content, and that in a way extends to users as well. If there are duplicate accounts, we will close those down, and have done regular account pruning of unactivated users (those who never activated their accounts) in the past, but there's been no evidence to suggest that such actions would increase membership for a 13-year-old mod project for a nearly 13-year-old game.

Not to mention we would have problems with post association, and we'd lose a record of the number of people registered here.

Yeti · Post by **Yeti** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:48 am

This does not sound like a good idea to me. Wouldn't it result in a lot of posts disappearing?

Tondollari · Post by **Tondollari** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:55 am

Posts would not vanish AFAIK, but as Haplo said post association might be a problem.

Post by **Haplo** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:36 am

Any posts authored by deleted users would be changed to "Guest" ownership.

Lord_Gallant · Post by **Lord_Gallant** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:13 pm

Would definitely suck if I forgot to stop by one year...

Kasan Moor · Post by **Kasan Moor** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:20 am

I second Lord_Gallant's post. Please don't forget about us long time lurkers.