Author Topic: Unholy Cleansing: Reaping the Undead (Read 60503 times)

Ingar · « **on:** June 07, 2012, 08:04:51 pm »

Armed with the Holy Handgrenade and a medium-sized Rocket Launcher I initiated the Holy War on Forum Zombies.

This means I've started deleting forum account without posts and activity. My apologies if your favourite lurker account
doesn't exist any more, but you'll have to recreate it.

If you are an active lurker without posts, you can greatly assist me in my quest by making a post. Just reply in this thread, confirming
you're human and alive. I'm trying not to delete accounts with recent activity, but forum managment can be a rather precarious
task, and an oops is just around the corner.

Users with posts are generally not at risk.

CreatureofHell · « **Reply #1 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:27:56 pm »

I am not a lurker with no posts.

Asvarox · « **Reply #2 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:01:56 pm »

How about removing accounts with no posts based on last activity date? That'd sort the "active" lurkers from zombie ones quite decently.

sth · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:17:56 pm »

Not dead (yet)...

GLAMEOW · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2012, 02:24:07 am »

The medis will save us

E-Mxp · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2012, 10:21:06 am »

I am alive... I think.

KenuR · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2012, 11:14:54 am »

Don'tdeletemyaccountpleasethnxbye

Qrntz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2012, 12:20:17 pm »

Ingar · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2012, 09:35:40 pm »

Quote from: Asvarox on June 07, 2012, 09:01:56 pm

How about removing accounts with no posts based on last activity date? That'd sort the "active" lurkers from zombie ones quite decently.

Unfortunatly, I can sort the user list on "last activity" or "post count" but not both, I do try not to delete accounts with recent activity.
I've also send some personal messages and it worked

(thanx, you know who you are)

Also, I kick ass for the Lord

RAKninja-Decepticon · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2012, 09:50:28 pm »

Quote from: Ingar on June 08, 2012, 09:35:40 pm

Quote from: Asvarox on June 07, 2012, 09:01:56 pm
How about removing accounts with no posts based on last activity date? That'd sort the "active" lurkers from zombie ones quite decently.
Unfortunatly, I can sort the user list on "last activity" or "post count" but not both, I do try not to delete accounts with recent activity.
I've also send some personal messages and it worked (thanx, you know who you are)

Also, I kick ass for the Lord

cant you have a php script that connects to the sql database, then sorts it by those two values?

Flux · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2012, 10:10:14 pm »

If the game itself is dead or "undead," I suppose you must wipe this entire site..

/dev/humancontroller · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2012, 10:40:51 pm »

Quote from: Flux on June 08, 2012, 10:10:14 pm

If the game itself is dead or "undead," I suppose you must wipe this entire site..

so if you must not wipe this entire site (ind33d, you must not !), then the game is neither dead, nor "undead".

ULTRA Random ViruS · « **Reply #12 on:** June 09, 2012, 06:29:28 am »

How bout deleting ones based on date without any posts in the past... year?
Lots of 'famous' people will be deleted in this process though eventually... gmotw, drazi, tea, some(unactive)devs, those who initially help start up tremulous in the old days...
Also deleting the actual posts could lead to the site being somewhat empty. Why not just archive them somewhere-else, so if people need help, they could look for it there.