Account pruning

[Rapscallion]

Every so often, we prune the accounts on the server. We're going to do it again about the end of this month.

Criteria for a deleted account will be one where there is no post count and the account hasn't been logged into for ninety days - same as the last few times. I'll be mailing accounts that are to be deleted once we get the ones fitting those parameters into a distinct group - before the end of this week. If people want their account keeping, we'll manually save them from extinction.

Just a heads-up.

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

Just out of curiosity, if there is an account with a post count is there ever a cut off for deletion, say for example if it's not been logged into for a few years or they've been banned...?

[Rapscallion]

If an account has a post count, we currently have no intent of deleting it. We don't generally delete banned users, unless they are spam accounts.

Rapscallion

[MadMike]

We don't touch those. It's actually better to keep the banned ones, because it makes it harder to get back in than if we'd remove them.

[Evil Queen]

Have you ever had the occasion where someone would request their account deleted? Is that even possible?

[Rapscallion]

I've seen it once that I can remember. I've never really had to look into the mechanisms.

Rapscallion