Do you prune member accounts with zero posts?

[Kaynil]

It seems to be something many communities feel right to do nowadays, to delete member accounts if they don't login or post in a set amount of days. usually pruning is done periodically and I usually find that the idea behind this is about keeping the memberbase and posting ratio more accurate.

On the otehr hand, some admins just don't really bother with the accounts or think that if they joined the community, that's something to be respected. Another reason to keep the account is that mass emails might reach them and maybe motivate them to check the community.

What are your thoughts in prunning accounts?

 

[ahmedo241]

It has to do with recognition, most upcoming forums or blogs may not insert such sanctions because they are still growing so they need traffic to boost their ranking.

 

[Jerlene1]

I don't have a forum anymore but back when I did, I would prune accounts all the time. If someone didn't make a post for a month I would delete their account completely. I would check often, multiple times a week. I got rid of thousands of old accounts just collecting dust. It's not useful to have them there. They could be using a username that someone who would be active wanted to sign up with.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I think that this can be helpful in terms of making a database that is easier to manage and i think that if there is a time period that they are not active then you should take their account off.

 

[Busybee]

I have a time period of 1 year. If a user doesn't post any post for that time would prune his account. This makes it easy to manage the database and frees up many new user ids and user names.

 

[Jason]

I think people are doing you a favor by joining your forum. You know the saying "The customer is always right."? Well, an exception would be if it was a spammer or rude person.

What I'm getting at here is that people shouldn't have post requirements unless their unless there is some paid thing or post exchange situation.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I think people are doing you a favor by joining your forum. You know the saying "The customer is always right."? Well, an exception would be if it was a spammer or rude person.

What I'm getting at here is that people shouldn't have post requirements unless their unless there is some paid thing or post exchange situation.

I do agree with you. Because if in that way you had to impose all of these rules onto them then they may feel that being on the forum is more work than enjoyable and then they won't come back.

 

[Kane]

If you see members with zero posts and no activities on the forum, it is understandable that the member is not genuine and he or she joined just for spamming purpose but suddenly dropped the idea. When I see old account with zero posts, I delete it outright.