Display of members

How do you display your members, I really don't like to see inactive members, was thinking about deleting those inactive who don't write , have 0 posts, or getting rid of active inactive, just have members like Peggy. I don't know , i sent an e mail to them reminding them to come back, check, they haven't come back.

I don't delete my inactive members. I used to, on another site, but as I was told - they aren't taking up any room on the forum, so why delete them? Chances are, for whatever reason, they may pop in some day and post.

On the satellite forum I have just culled over 30,000 members, I chopped anyone who had not been on the forum for over 9 months and had zero posts, but that still leaves over 110,000, so not too concerned.

I agree that unless you have a performance related issue, there is no point in deleting members, as a healthy membership looks good for the forum, unless of course there are loads of them who have subscribed to threads and are bouncing Emails on you. :)

PS. When you get to that sized membership, it also releases a lot of potential usernames, I have on occasions deleted six month registered members, who have not posted and not logged in since registration, so that an existing active member can use the name. :)

that's a good idea, rolfw, about the usernames.

The only thing I've ever done (my forum is running on a freebie site right now and I've modded forums before -- just never done all this work!) .. anyhoo ... all I've ever done is restrict newbies with under 15 (or 20 or 25) posts from using the pm and email system. This was after a spam attack. It's annoying, but the active folks understand and don't have a prob with it.

Now if I had rolfw's problem ... ;)

Now if I had rolfw's problem ... ;)

LOL, unfortunately that number of users creates big server demands, we are now up to two dedicated servers and planning for a third. :) The next problem is paying for them. ;)

WOW - congrats on your success rolfw

I was wondering what should i set up my active member status , i mean to how many days. I had it at 30, now i changed it to 40. Not like it's making a difference. Just interesting.

I have mine at 60 on the satellites.co.uk forum, as many of our members will binge post and then disappear for a month or so, but mostly come back to binge post again.

It also controls who appears in the today's Birthdays list and I think that 30 days is too short for that.

Have it on 60 days on the TVB site, but as it has only been running for four weeks it hasn't had any affect. :)


Talking of Birthdays, amazing how many members when registering use 1/1/****, it means that on that date we have sveral thousand birthdays. :)