Posted: 7/7/2007 5:36 PM
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AngerFist
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Did 600 users suddenly lost their accounts?
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Posted: 7/7/2007 5:45 PM
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in #nesvideos on July 04. 
[17:46:39] <Bisqwit> Time to delete >600 users
[17:47:13] <Soulrivers> Bisqwit what are those users?
[17:47:14] <Bisqwit> First, a database backup
[17:47:28] <Bisqwit> Soulrivers: Users who have never posted a post, rated any movie, etc
[17:47:36] <Soulrivers> ok
[17:48:08] <Raiscan> is this past a certain date?
[17:49:10] <Bisqwit> Yes
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Posted: 7/7/2007 9:56 PM
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Warp
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I wonder why 600 people have registered but then done nothing with their account.
Posted: 7/7/2007 9:57 PM
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DK64_MASTER
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Maybe they never got their activation email? Would these types of accounts be in this list?
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Posted: 7/7/2007 10:09 PM
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Administering a board with 134 0-post users (out of 619, in only ~5 months) I can say that it isn't very strange at all. Our board doesn't even have any activation features -- it's just register and post. Perhaps they just registered to register, or were going to make a post but thought better. There's no reason anyone knows, because since they never post, it's impossible to contact htem back and figure out why :) I suppose it's an unsolved mystery indeed. Although I wonder how long it took Nesvideos to collect 600 0-post users.
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Posted: 7/7/2007 10:15 PM
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DK64_MASTER
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Maybe some of them wanted to vote on a submission, but then realized that newly registered users cannot post until a certain grace period/post number is reached.
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Posted: 7/8/2007 12:20 AM
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Xkeeper: Select * from Users where (Select count(*) from thread where Thread.Iduser = users.iduser) = 0 Something like that.
Posted: 7/8/2007 12:25 AM
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
Maybe they never got their activation email? Would these types of accounts be in this list?
Yes, but those aren't the majority (making only 1/6 of the deleted accounts).
Posted: 7/8/2007 3:43 PM
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Chamale
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I think quite a few wrongly assumed you need to register to download an AVI. I go to one forum with an online game that you need to register to play. 50% of users have never posted.
Posted: 7/8/2007 3:46 PM
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Chamale wrote:
I think quite a few wrongly assumed you need to register to download an AVI. I go to one forum with an online game that you need to register to play. 50% of users have never posted.
I'm pretty sure a large majority would try their luck first and have a go.
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Posted: 7/8/2007 6:38 PM
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Bag_of_Magic_Food
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And maybe the 600 is actually the minority, since this site's just that popular?
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Posted: 7/8/2007 6:47 PM
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They could also be users who just like to lurk and still keep track of where there are new posts... in which case I can imagine them being a bit upset if their account was deleted. A "reply to this email if you want to keep your account" could be a good idea. Or looking at how often they log in instead of how often they post.
Posted: 7/8/2007 6:53 PM
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Truncated wrote:
A "reply to this email if you want to keep your account" could be a good idea.
There actually is a clause like that in the deletion e-mail.
Truncated wrote:
Or looking at how often they log in instead of how often they post.
The deletion'o'matic checks a few different aspects for making the decision. Unfortunately though, there is no data from which to surmise how often the person has been reading the forums.
Posted: 7/8/2007 6:56 PM
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>There actually is a clause like that in the deletion e-mail. Oh, so there was a deletion e-mail. I didn't see anything about it in the topic before this. Then all should be good, never mind my complaints.
Posted: 7/8/2007 6:59 PM
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The deletion e-mail looks like this: 
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:00:31 +0300
From: <email address>
To: <email address>
Subject: Nesvideos forums: Deleting inactive accounts


TASvideos Forums - Inactive account deletion

We are automatically deleting your account due to inactivity.

Your account details:
* Username: Zartan
* Email address: <email address>
* You have last visited the board 257.9 days ago.
* You never posted.
* You have never rated any movies.

This deletion was carried out automatically by a program that
measures one's past activity. If you believe the deletion was
carried out in error (for example, you have contributed in
some movies), please send e-mail to the administrator of
the board at <email address> and your username may be restored.

Thank you for visiting and welcome again. You may also reregister
if you wish, but note that the main site,
 http://TASvideos.org/
does not require registration to be used.

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Thanks, phpBB2
on behalf of Bisqwit
Posted: 7/9/2007 1:47 AM
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ZeXr0
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[17:48:08] <Raiscan> is this past a certain date? [17:49:10] <Bisqwit> Yes
There's no need to worry, as people that log in to track new post log's in at least once every 2 month ? So if it's past a certain date, there's no problem. By the way, what was the date ?
Posted: 7/9/2007 2:01 PM
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ZeXr0 wrote:
By the way, what was the date ?
100 days for non-confirmed registrations, 250 days for confirmed ones. Btw, this was the third or fourth time I ran the user purge script during the operation of the board. Rarely anybody cares, but perhaps AngerFist likes big numbers? :)
Posted: 7/10/2007 2:30 AM
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Rarely anybody cares
I care, now my congratulations post makes me look crazy. Well more crazy than normal anyway.
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