Penalizing Users for not Being Active

[Riberet19]

The only user you have the right to penalise in your forum would be your staff members and they would have to be paid staff members because you can't dictate anything to someone you're not paying any money.

As for your forum members, penalising for not being active will not be beneficial to your forum. You will end up chasing them away. Unless you pay them first for being active is only when they will take your penalty in good faith.

Yes, you're right, but there are forums that pay members to post, and sometimes they take measures like subtract money from your balance if you have a long period of inactivity, honestly it's something I don't approve of, because people can have different reasons why they can't participate in the forum, and they don't have the obligation to communicate it as the staff members would, in short, it's something that doesn't help the forum at all and only causes stress in the users and probably discontent.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Yes, you're right, but there are forums that pay members to post, and sometimes they take measures like subtract money from your balance if you have a long period of inactivity, honestly it's something I don't approve of, because people can have different reasons why they can't participate in the forum, and they don't have the obligation to communicate it as the staff members would, in short, it's something that doesn't help the forum at all and only causes stress in the users and probably discontent.

I won't stand for such kind of policy in any forum. If it's in the forum's terms and conditions when I'm registering assuming it's a paid to post forum, I won't complete my registration. I will walk away.

The forum owner have no right to deduct the money I've earn from posting because I'm not active for a while. I have worked for the money and it's mine. The time I was working to earn it, I've given traffic and activity to the forum. Taking my earned money because I wasn't active for a while is criminal.

 

[Heatman]

I won't stand for such kind of policy in any forum. If it's in the forum's terms and conditions when I'm registering assuming it's a paid to post forum, I won't complete my registration. I will walk away.

The forum owner have no right to deduct the money I've earn from posting because I'm not active for a while. I have worked for the money and it's mine. The time I was working to earn it, I've given traffic and activity to the forum. Taking my earned money because I wasn't active for a while is criminal.

You're right by all means. Yes, a forum owner might decide to cut down on the users money already made from the forum because they have the power of doing so, but it's a dent in the forum's face as far as I'm concerned. If that happened to me, the moment I take what's left after their madness, I will log out of forum and never log in again.

 

[Ja sa bong]

You're right by all means. Yes, a forum owner might decide to cut down on the users money already made from the forum because they have the power of doing so, but it's a dent in the forum's face as far as I'm concerned. If that happened to me, the moment I take what's left after their madness, I will log out of forum and never log in again.

This kind of scenerio have the potential of sending your forum members out of the website. It's an injustice which shouldn't happen. A forum owner shouldn't let his greed get the better of him. Taking a cut from his members earning is nothing but greed.

 

[Heatman]

Yes, you're right, but there are forums that pay members to post, and sometimes they take measures like subtract money from your balance if you have a long period of inactivity, honestly it's something I don't approve of, because people can have different reasons why they can't participate in the forum, and they don't have the obligation to communicate it as the staff members would, in short, it's something that doesn't help the forum at all and only causes stress in the users and probably discontent.

It's wrong to do that. What I can accept as a penalty for such a member who suddenly become inactive would be to remove their privilege of earning from the forum when they come back. They can withdraw their already earned money but they won't be able to earn again until they show a good level of activity again.

 

[Riberet19]

It's wrong to do that. What I can accept as a penalty for such a member who suddenly become inactive would be to remove their privilege of earning from the forum when they come back. They can withdraw their already earned money but they won't be able to earn again until they show a good level of activity again.

That could be an alternative measure, but I really think that the user might not want to participate in the forum again if these measures are applied, I think that each user should feel free when they can work on said website or not, also you do not have a contract where you have an obligation to work or communicate when you cannot be active, a forum is a place where you are going to debate, communicate with others and share information, and not to feel pressured.

 

[saoussen57651]

That could be an alternative measure, but I really think that the user might not want to participate in the forum again if these measures are applied, I think that each user should feel free when they can work on said website or not, also you do not have a contract where you have an obligation to work or communicate when you cannot be active, a forum is a place where you are going to debate, communicate with others and share information, and not to feel pressured.

It could be bad because you can have a banned member having +10,000 messages on the community and has been inactive for the period you have said 180 days or any period and then when login in again and find himself banned for inactivity he will not rejoin again to the community or even contact support, then you could lose good elements by this stupid filter way of users.

 

[HK World]

I've not seen such rules in all the paid to post forum I have tried out, but I think there should be removal of accounts that are inactive for quite a long time or there should be a mechanism to contact people that are inactive in the forum.

Yes, I have also never heard of this rule. But I think it's fine if you remove the inactive accounts. If someone is not making any contributions to a forum, then it's useless to keep those accounts on your forum.

 

[James2]

It's great to hear that most forums are lenient towards users who are not active for extended periods. This approach recognizes that people have busy lives and may not always have the time to engage regularly. Overall, it's essential for forums to strike a balance between encouraging activity and understanding the various reasons why users might not be able to participate regularly.

 

[Frank]

This act could be looked at depending on what the users are doing. If there are times where you are unable to come online, I believe that the admin should look at why or maybe send a pm depending on the relationship that you have with them. But putting a penalty that people will pay because they were unavailable online is a difficult one to do.

 

[Heatman]

Yes, I have also never heard of this rule. But I think it's fine if you remove the inactive accounts. If someone is not making any contributions to a forum, then it's useless to keep those accounts on your forum.

As long as the particular member in question have always been active in the community contributing in the way that he or she can but all of a sudden become inactive, you don't have the right to remove them from your community because they suddenly become inactive. You should always give them the benefit of the doubt that they are going to come back later whenever you have the time to start contributing again.

 

[Frank]

As long as the particular member in question have always been active in the community contributing in the way that he or she can but all of a sudden become inactive, you don't have the right to remove them from your community because they suddenly become inactive. You should always give them the benefit of the doubt that they are going to come back later whenever you have the time to start contributing again.

This is true. There are times that I become inactive in some forums as a result of being able to login at different times or maybe I have a busy time at work. So, when that is the case, I will be away from most forums. I will feel sad to notice that I came back to a forum to discover that I've been deleted.

 

[Reverie]

Users disappear and reappear from time to time. One thing I'd consider is an "inactive group" and if they want to reappear in the active members group they'd have to make 5 posts again. I don't think a community would necessarily want an inactive group though because people could go look in the "inactive group" and then see 200 members are in that, rather than the 100 who may be in the active... It's an interesting theory.

I wouldn't want to truly punish inactivity though, but I would instead reward activity.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Yes, I have also never heard of this rule. But I think it's fine if you remove the inactive accounts. If someone is not making any contributions to a forum, then it's useless to keep those accounts on your forum.

Accounts which are registered without any posts in a forum doesn't deserve to be there for more than one month. I clean my forum of such inactive accounts because they add no value. If they have registered and made few good high quality posts, I will never remove their accounts.