Memberlist Purge?

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:34 am

I was just going through the memberlist looking for someone, and I noticed there are thousands of pages of members. Needless to say, I didn't want to searh for what I was looking for anymore. I notived user names like "Viagara Sex" and stuff like that. I was wondering if these could be purged to free up space and make the list a little more accurate and user friendly?

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:24 am

SteelbackGuy wrote:I was just going through the memberlist looking for someone, and I noticed there are thousands of pages of members. Needless to say, I didn't want to searh for what I was looking for anymore. I notived user names like "Viagara Sex" and stuff like that. I was wondering if these could be purged to free up space and make the list a little more accurate and user friendly?

Viagara Sex is an upstanding member - I can't believe you want to exile him from the site!

boney · Post by **boney** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:33 pm

"upstanding member". Don't know if that was intentional or not, but Bravo sir, bravo.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:14 pm

Funny. I mowed the lawn without a shirt & last night I had a stiff back!

Wife told me "next time, mow grass without your pants."

Tapsucker · Post by **Tapsucker** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:12 pm

Don't be so hard on Viagra Sex.

mjohnston · Post by **mjohnston** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:23 pm

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dick+jokes

JesseM · Post by **JesseM** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:32 pm

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought, "We're going to ethnically cleanse the memberlist?"

That's what being a student of Russian history does to you

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LondonBeer · Post by **LondonBeer** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:27 pm

I heard that he has been around for a long time but is hard to find. Maybe offer him a stiff drink.

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:35 pm

Try the veal.

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:44 am

Funny posts guys, thanks for the laughs!

But seriously, 90% of our memberlist is made up of bots or people who don't exist. I think it would really benefit the site (costs, bandwidth?) if these were purged on a somewhat regular basis.

GregClow · Post by **GregClow** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:43 am

SteelbackGuy wrote:But seriously, 90% of our memberlist is made up of bots or people who don't exist. I think it would really benefit the site (costs, bandwidth?) if these were purged on a somewhat regular basis.

Cass can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that those junk accounts have no effect on costs of bandwidth. They're created by spammers/bots in an attempt to make a post, which fails because all accounts need to be manually approved by Cass before posting is allowed. So after the initial creation of the account, they have no effect on the site, they just sit there doing nothing.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:03 pm

GregClow wrote: I don't believe that those junk accounts have no effect on costs of bandwidth..

confused - you really mean you don't not believe they have no effect, right?

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:43 pm

GregClow wrote:So after the initial creation of the account, they have no effect on the site, they just sit there doing nothing.

Other than making the memberlist a PITA to search through...

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:30 pm

JerCraigs wrote:
GregClow wrote:So after the initial creation of the account, they have no effect on the site, they just sit there doing nothing.
Other than making the memberlist a PITA to search through...

Yeah, that was one of my thoughts as well Jer. Glad I am not the only one who feels this way!

Duct Tape · Post by **Duct Tape** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:12 pm

SteelbackGuy wrote:
JerCraigs wrote:
GregClow wrote:So after the initial creation of the account, they have no effect on the site, they just sit there doing nothing.
Other than making the memberlist a PITA to search through...
Yeah, that was one of my thoughts as well Jer. Glad I am not the only one who feels this way!

Yes, but i hardly think asking Cass to add filtering through 18325 registered users on top of everything else he has on in his life would be fair.

I would suggest, that as a starting point, you start going through the list and emailing Cass a list of bots or suspected bots. I know from using a phpbb Forum, that its easy enough to delete accounts, but it makes it a lot quicker if you have a list you can copy and paste from rather than having to go through the database list yourself.

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