Important Information: Deleting Inactive Users : Othor Games

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:01 pm

Just a head's up that we'll be removing inactive accounts from the forum database this week. If you know someone who has an account and hasn't logged into it in the last two years (as of June 2009), feel free to let them know their account could be deleted this week.

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:32 pm

Is there any way to search for old members by name? I want to see if somebody I haven't seen post. in a while still has an account, and when it was last active. I searched the forums using his name but turned up nothing.

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:03 pm

Does that mean we'll never see surprise returns of ancient inactive accounts? Awww... Love it when a 00'er comes out of nowhere suddenly.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:26 am

Ah reminds me a bit of those chain letters that people always used to send out on Myspace. Deleting your account unless you reply!

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:17 pm

Ah reminds me a bit of those chain letters that people always used to send out on Myspace. Deleting your account unless you reply!

My favorite of those was an email one I used to get all the time: Facebook is going to start charging us money to use the site!!! Send this to ten people and they'll change their minds!!!eleventytwo!

:rolleyes:

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:08 am

Quickly! Somebody find Fonger!

I felt kinda sorry for the ones that lost all their avatars in the forum upgrade. So many awesome avatars lost.

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:32 pm

My favorite of those was an email one I used to get all the time: Facebook is going to start charging us money to use the site!!! Send this to ten people and they'll change their minds!!!eleventytwo!

:rolleyes:

That's a classic!

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:46 pm

I suppose this means a few of my most worthy opponents are going to be deleted then... shame.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:36 am

Is there any way to search for old members by name? I want to see if somebody I haven't seen post. in a while still has an account, and when it was last active. I searched the forums using his name but turned up nothing.

Go http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/members/, click "Use advanced filters", put in name, date, whatever else you want, click "Apply Filters", and away you go

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» Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:49 pm

That's got to be a pretty big purge? I can just see people lining up to try out usernames for registration after this.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:54 am

Excuse the presumptuousness, but perhaps you can purge only users who haven't logged on since 2009 and have never made a post? Or some similar criteria to try and eliminate as many contributing users as possible.

I can foresee this causing some trouble with the lore forum D:

Thanks for the heads up :foodndrink:

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:17 am

Go http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/members/, click "Use advanced filters", put in name, date, whatever else you want, click "Apply Filters", and away you go

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I wonder how accurate that is. If you sort to last login before 06-01-2009, that comes out to about 70,000 accounts.

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:59 pm

I wonder how accurate that is. If you sort to last login before 06-01-2009, that comes out to about 70,000 accounts.

If it were only a few users it wouldn't be worth removing them :shrug:.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:15 am

Hmm, I can see this has a lot of potential for certain people using it as an opportunity to pass themselves off as someone else. :unsure:

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:34 am

Excuse the presumptuousness, but perhaps you can purge only users who haven't logged on since 2009 and have never made a post? Or some similar criteria to try and eliminate as many contributing users as possible.

I can foresee this causing some trouble with the lore forum D:

Thanks for the heads up :foodndrink:

I believe that any surviving posts by a nonexistant person would be tied to a guest name, so the posts themselves would still survive. That's what it did with Tegger, anyway.

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:19 pm

Hmm, I can see this has a lot of potential for certain people using it as an opportunity to pass themselves off as someone else. :unsure:

Hm... that's true... just out of curiosity, when was the last time Attrebus was on?

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:00 pm

That's got to be a pretty big purge? I can just see people lining up to try out usernames for registration after this.

lol

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:56 pm

Hm... that's true... just out of curiosity, when was the last time Attrebus was on?

I'm sure I saw him recently... in fact his profile says just a few hours ago. I think my concern is more a case of other people who've been around for a few years being conned by what appears to be one of the many people who used to be very active (though by "conned" I mean along the lines of "for teh lulz" rather than "hey, remember me? Tell me all your credit card details!" obviously!)

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:00 am

As long as you don't delete Fonger.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:51 am

I assume this is due to the recent attack?

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:29 pm

Well, glad I came back a few months ago.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:17 am

I believe that any surviving posts by a nonexistant person would be tied to a guest name, so the posts themselves would still survive. That's what it did with Tegger, anyway.

probably the *DO NOT DELETE* account

» Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:30 pm

I assume this is due to the recent attack?

If I remember correctly, they've done this multiple times before. It's why the members list doesn't reflect the amount of people who have actually joined this forum over the years. I'm guessing that what makes this different is that the last purges were probably just really, really inactive accounts, while this purge is getting rid of accounts that have just been inactive for 2 years. Or not, I'm just filling in the blanks, maybe a mod could fill us in.

And I too support the "Fonger Conservation" effort.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:02 am

Can you please delete these 2 accounts? http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/401372-samlynn/

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/645969-oosis-assis/

They are mine, but I don't use them, and with this whole lulzsec crap going on, I'd just as soon not have to worry about watching them. Thanks.

» Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:39 am

Will that also affect PM's from those users, will they get deleted? I can't find any working way to archive private messages with this new board. It used to work so that you would select all the messages and click archive to have it sent to your email inbox. Now you can only archive one message/topic at a time and the button never seemed to be doing anything.