Culling The Herd

[skippyc]

And I was looking out for it too.

[Justin B.]

Bob, if somebody logs in periodically but has never posted I don't feel they should be whacked.  There are at least two forums that I can think of that I have belonged to for several years that I have NEVER made a post on.  Given your criteria I would be history on them...  The rest of your specifics I agree with.

[Ed Miller]

eMail was sent today, 2100 MST, 0400 GMT .

Active members ignore this email !!!

I don't think I got that email....

If somebody hasn't even logged in for years I don't know how they would know their account had been closed.  

[Bob_Roller]

Ed, when I sent the email, I forgot to select which members got the email, so it didn't get sent .

I did this about 5 years ago and one member that was removed, came back and was quite upset about this, I had to remove his posts and ban him from the site, he also sent an email to Justin, Justin was comfortable with what I did, except for not saving the posts that I deleted .

Trying to prevent this from happening again .

I've got a few coworkers that are moderators on some automotive forums and they said that when they clean house every 4-5 years, the same thing happens a few ex-members get quite vocal about being removed and end up getting banned for their behavior .

Here's my new plan, If you have joined the site and have not been logged in when online for 1 year, you will be removed, all other members, if you have not been logged in and online in 3 years you will be removed .

I'll wait a few days and see what other members here have to say about this .

I'll send the email and give members 4 weeks to visit the site while logged in, before they will be removed .

I'lll send the email on Nov. 01 and start removing members on Dec. 01 .

[Justin B.]

Bob, sounds reasonable.  The "not logged on" trigger is the key.

[Bob_Roller]

I ran this across the coworkers that are moderators and the first thing  they made comment about, was being logged in .

Showing up as a ' guest ' as this is how it works on this site if you are not logged in,  won't show up on the profile  as having visited the forum .

[marcmax]

If you can't take the time to even log in, why should you be kept active as a member. JMHO

[Bob_Roller]

Justin has to deal with deleted members, so I try not to make it too rough on him !!!

[Justin B.]

I had one doofus from the "Great Purge" threaten a PayPal chargeback for his donation, claimed his lawyer told him he had a case - whatever.  The mail back and forth with him was, shall I say, trying...

[Bob_Roller]

I tried sending the email to members this morning and kept getting a 405 error Not Allowed .

Did anyone receive an email from me ??

[Justin B.]

I got a couple AND 38 separate mail failure messages due to e-mail addresses no longer being any good.  I'm thinking they went out...

[marcmax]

I received one.

[Bob_Roller]

I think I may have been disconnected when I tried to send the messages, I tried 3 or 4 times and never got a message that they were successfully sent , that may explain the multiple emails that you may receive .

I was just allowed back online here since around 1120 AM, about 2 and a half hours ago .

Alright, thanks for the replies .

[Bob_Roller]

Looks like the email had some positive results, I'm seeing members online that I cannot say I've seen before .

[John W]

Thanks for the warning email.

I'll put my hand up as one of those who lurk about these forums.  If I jump online regularly, my browser will log me in, but every now and again it forgets me, so I appear as a guest when visiting.  Mostly, I don't even notice as I just skim recent posts and don't have much to contribute.  There have been a few projects ahead of the old R65.  This will now change as I have set a deadline for the next DSG ride.

Cheers guys, and I'll try to be more active.