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Posted Jan 20, 2015

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ME
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Jan 20, 2015
Is there any policy here on cleaning up old unused profiles?  I know it looks better on the front page if there are bigger numbers, but since there are no ads it shouldn't be too big a deal.  I think if a user signed up five plus years ago and hasn't been back since no one should feel guilty about taking down the profile.
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    DesertRat
    DesertRat
    Jan 21, 2015
    Similar recommendations have been made many times by many different people but then the owners wouldn't be able to claim the large number of members.
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    S. Mamman
    S. Mamman
    Jan 22, 2015
    In that case, the website should be equipd tomove all profiles which have not been visited by the holder for one full yearto an independent area like'dormant profiles'or'sleeping profiles'.Whenever thereafter if the member visits his or her profile in the dormant / sleeping profile, the profile should automatically be moved to the main profile area. This will help the real and genuine users to browse throughonly active members.The total number of members need not be changed by the dormant/ sleeping profiles.
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    M_JimmieM_M
    M_JimmieM_M
    Aug 25, 2015

    Someone needs to be careful of what they are deleting. I just logged back in after being gone only about two days and about 1,000 posts of mine have been deleted.

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    renebbare
    renebbare
    Aug 26, 2015

    When a thread is deleted any one posting looses their 'count'

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    M_JimmieM_M
    M_JimmieM_M
    Sep 2, 2015

    Hi Rene, Yes I figured that is probably what happened and we know which one it was. I imagine you lost some as well. It was just a shock to see so many gone in one swoop.

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    Andrew
    Andrew
    Sep 22, 2015
    [quote]Is there any policy here on cleaning up old unused profiles?  I know it looks better on the front page if there are bigger numbers, but since there are no ads it shouldn't be too big a deal.  I think if a user signed up five plus years ago and hasn't been back since no one should feel guilty about taking down the profile.
    [/quote]This is one of the suggestions which keep coming up over the years. I suggested it in a forum post within the last month. It is tiring to try and see if if any member who were around when you first joined are still active here, to trawl through the profiles from way back and you have to actually open a profile to find when the last date of activity is for that profile. A number of members are openly questioning if the owner is playing a numbers game and if it has anything to do with rankings on Google search?? I would suggest like a lot of other websites; that we receive an Email if we have not logged in within the previous 12 months. that way we either log in to re-activate our profile, or lose it. To be brutally honest, it is not the size of membership which should count, but the quality of the people participating!! Even starting Ts, One does feel the owner does not have a clue to the direction he wishes "his personally owned website" should take.
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