To purge or not to purge?
 

delete inactive members?

That is my question ;)

Who purgers 0 post count users and if so how long to you wait to purge them?

What are the benefits of deleting them? My site is growing fast and I have much less worry about member count. But I also know that sometimes its taken 3 or more months for someone to actually post. I send out "come join us" emails every now and again and that helps A LOT!

Is there any harm in just leaving them.. Other then having a nagging ocd created by the obsessive need to keep things tidy lol.

Archiving and post pruning are on my list on find outs too!


What do you do?

Nobody? lol

Hi, I purged from 11,000 members to 4,580 and I'll be purging even more.

No need in appearing to have members who aren't really participating in the community.

cheers.

over the past three years, i've purged over 10k registered users for whatever reason.

I don't purge any of my non posting user's, after all a user is a user and just need's a reason to remember to come back to your site.....

One thing you may concider doing, is mass emails........Kind of like a new's letter about the latest happening's on your site..

goto your admincp, users, then click "send email to users", and just type a brief message in there, toss in a couple link's to new something on your site....you will see your active user count go up a bit and eventually, they will be come active user's...

hotwheels

lol. I did that all the time but the first time I sent out more then 200 I got TOSed.

I need to look into stmp or a better hosting plan!

I've purged old, inactive accounts with no posts a few times. They couldn't complain either, because their accounts were deleted. ;)

I know this is an old thread but I use this to get around the email limits, it works great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167274

Thanks for your advise. LOL Its to late though... I upgraded to a quad core 4gig ram server. LOL I wont be out gowning that for a loooong time haha

lol. :up:



I've purged my old inactive accounts with zero post once, maybe I'll do it once a year.. not very often