Members with 0 post count?

[xpl0iter]

What do you do with them?
I personally will delete them from time to time. They are quite a good show off for your forum statistics if you have good amount of posts. But still those are unwanted entries on your database.

 

[Gytix]

I would leave them up until the point that keeping them on the database would cause some problems, then I would just delete them all. I don't delete people within a moments notice so I'd send an email etc before finally deleting them.

 

[Jason1]

I just keep them for a while, at a particular point of time remove them from the database.

 

[Martee]

What I hate more than members with 0 count is members who sign up, log on pretty much everyday without ever doing anything (And yes, there are one or two on this site unfortunately). It annoys me because you wonder what are they actually doing or is there something so bad with the site

 

[Hubok]

All forum accounts on my website sync with my game server, so if members suddenly vanish, they'd lose their permissions. Basically, it doesn't end well.


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[Sam1]

I would have an auto removing modification installed, I did on my old forums, which will prune members with 0 post counts after a month or two...

 

[xpl0iter]

I would have an auto removing modification installed, I did on my old forums, which will prune members with 0 post counts after a month or two... :smile:

But I couldn't find one for xenforo! :/

 

[Southern Comfort]

I'd keep them for a while, but if it becomes an epidemic where there are around 50 0 posters I'd get rid of them.

 

[22_22]

I have been known to keep members with 0 posts as it isn't really causing too much trouble statistics wise but it maybe something I will consider in the future.

 

[YanOri]

But I couldn't find one for xenforo! :/

But how long Will it take to prune them from database?
You'll only need to do this once or twice a year ( unless you have a lot of such members )

 

[xpl0iter]

It will be a matter of seconds I guess!

 

[Sylar]

I keep them. They honestly don't do anything, but they also could come back at one point. If I deleted 200 0 post count members, one of them is bound to eventually come back and get mad that they were deleted. You could always explain it to them(why they were deleted), assuming they don't decide to shun you for that action. I just leave them be, and save myself the trouble

 

[HyperActive]

I don't necessarily delete them, I just send them a PM or an email with a friendly reminder.