Inactive Member Purge

[russellw]

Good morning

We will be performing our regular purge of inactive users later today.

As we haven't performed this for awhile, it will take an extended period of time to remove the ~64,000 inactive users from the database during which the server performance will be considerably slower than normal.

Inactive users are defined as those who have no activity in the last 90 days.

The last time we ran this (Dec 2016) we removed 60k users many of whom have subsequently rejoined being only occasional visitors.

In total, we have had over 350k registrations since we started and purged about 80% of those along the way and we will again be left with a core of ~75k users - about twice as many as were left after the last purge.

[Sam]

Let the purge begin.....

[Fed]

Off with their heads!

[wodahs]

can i have first dibs on their motor gear divi up all mine

[russellw]

It will free up a lot of user names at least so those who were wanting changes should keep an eye out for what becomes available.

[sneaky]

does reading the forum keep you as 'active' or do you have to post?

regards a lurker

and yes I realise posting this may keep me active and not just lurking

[Citroënbender]

...we will again be left with a core of ~75k users

I sorted the member list by last visited, ascending, and if you only take those classed as “active” from October 5th 2019 onwards, it leaves just 9500-odd.

What am I doing differently?

[Syndrome]

Are banned members classified as inactive?

[russellw]

Active is simply defined as having 'activity' in the period. There are a lot of active users with zero post counts.

Citreonbender - the publicly visible member list does not include all member groups and user with post counts greater than a certain number aren't included in purges for thread continuity.

Banned users are counted as inactive.

I ran out of time last night so they will be purged tonight.

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by russellw

I ran out of time last night so they will be purged tonight.

and i was going to say purge musta malfunctioned , im still here

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by wodahs

and i was going to say purge musta malfunctioned , im still here

If it make's you feel better we can fix that

[Coupusmaximus]

I’m not that active, but would like to stay

[Captain Stubing]

Originally Posted by Coupusmaximus

I’m not that active, but would like to stay

By visiting and viewing the forum, you are safe. This is for people who find the site, register, then never come back.

[Electrolyte Burns]

There must be quite a few who join, ask a question or two and don't return after getting their questions answered.

[russellw]

There are which is why we've purged about 167,000 member records - some of them multiple times.

[superyob]

Can we nominate names to be purged? In that case, I nominate...

[Pis-ton broke]

for some reason i get automatic logged off, so these days i don,t log on, but i visit. there may be others in the same situation, and this might show as unvisited?

[russellw]

The auto log-off only happens if you don't have cookies enabled as these maintain your login (if you have remember me ticked). The fact that you've been logged in is enough to reset the 'last visit' date which stops you from being purged.

[buggerlugs]

I believe member "Gasolane" is very inactive........................


















































Probly cause of his age..........

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

I believe member "Gasolane" is very inactive........................

i heard he was going to garb the name HULK after the purge and it was available again

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by wodahs

i heard he was going to garb the name HULK after the purge and it was available again

Have you been swapping notes with the alcoholic golfer above?