To purge or not to purge?

[UncoderMom]

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?

[UncoderMom]

Nobody? lol

[friendly]

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.

[SCRIPT3R]

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

[hotwheels]

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

[UncoderMom]

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!

[Adrian Schneider]

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

[Aneurysm]

Originally Posted by UncoderMom

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 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

[UncoderMom]

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

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

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

lol. :up:



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