Zak_A
Senior Member
- Mar 16, 2008
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This might sound like a detail, but while searching for something very specific, I stumbled across this :
There are 140'844 user accounts on BHW that have been registered before 2012 and have no post.
78'851 of them were registered before 2011 (which is quite a lot)
Most of them have completely bs nicknames and show a "latest activity" date that is the same as the join date (obviously created by bots).
Additionally, 26'769 of this inactive 0 post accounts have a homepage URL, so I can safely say they were created only for the sake of a profile backlink.
So I was wondering why does BHW keeps these inactive accounts hanging there, is there a point in keeping them apart from wasting DB space ?
It would require no work to selectively delete those accounts with no post and no activity for more than say 6months or 1year, wouldn't it ? And the Member List would look a bit cleaner IMO.
Well, just a thought
There are 140'844 user accounts on BHW that have been registered before 2012 and have no post.
78'851 of them were registered before 2011 (which is quite a lot)
Most of them have completely bs nicknames and show a "latest activity" date that is the same as the join date (obviously created by bots).
Additionally, 26'769 of this inactive 0 post accounts have a homepage URL, so I can safely say they were created only for the sake of a profile backlink.
So I was wondering why does BHW keeps these inactive accounts hanging there, is there a point in keeping them apart from wasting DB space ?
It would require no work to selectively delete those accounts with no post and no activity for more than say 6months or 1year, wouldn't it ? And the Member List would look a bit cleaner IMO.
Well, just a thought
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