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Need advice regarding silent forum joiners...

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H:

--- Quote ---I have no time for lurkers
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I see no harm in letting lurkers be lurkers. They don't take up any time ::)

Wolfenrook:

--- Quote from: Bigguy ---Those aren`t bad rules. Do you find you get alot more posters or are you deleting alot of accounts.
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Most of my members post, and over the last year I've deleted about 10 members for failing to post an intro, pretty much all of who turned out to be fake upon investigation as they never even logged in after joining, ignored warnings, and in one case the email address the member had joined with wasn't even genuine.  Plus on one occasion we got a response from a member who had been sent a reminder stating that they had forgotten they were members and thanking us for the reminder. lol



--- Quote from: huwnet ---I see no harm in letting lurkers be lurkers. They don't take up any time
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On many sites this is true, but on some sites lurkers just can't be tolerated, for example sites where personal matters are discussed etc.  We have a policy that if a person joins then surely 10 days is long enough to decide whether they want to stay a member, and if they do then we expect them to at least introduce themselves to everybody.  The site I run is about community and friendship, not strangers been nosey.

Wolfenrook

DreamBliss:
Thanks for all your feedback! I have decided to adopt an activate your account and post or PM me within 1 month or your account will be deleted policy for new members. I figure that's reasonable, and now I'm faced with one annoying task. I want to go through and test everyone's e-mail address, and have some list display from which I can easily delete member accounts with invalid e-mail addresses. Is there an addon that will do this, as unobtrusively as possible?

Appreciate all your help!
- Deathbliss

Wolfenrook:
This script claims to be able to go through a list of email addresses from a database and test them, so might be of use to you.  I'm not aware of an SMF modification to do this though.

Wolfenrook

ryanbsoftware:

--- Quote from: Wolfenrook on August 02, 2006, 03:45:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: huwnet ---I see no harm in letting lurkers be lurkers. They don't take up any time
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On many sites this is true, but on some sites lurkers just can't be tolerated, for example sites where personal matters are discussed etc.  We have a policy that if a person joins then surely 10 days is long enough to decide whether they want to stay a member, and if they do then we expect them to at least introduce themselves to everybody.  The site I run is about community and friendship, not strangers been nosey.

Wolfenrook

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Don't bother to delete them, set it up so when they have 0 posts they see the welcome forum and maybe a few others, have the welcome email explain once they make their inital post, more forums will be visible and have a group that can see the rest of the forum that they are put in once they make 1 post, or more if you wish.  Saves you time of havong to delete, though i image a simple php script could query the db and find all members with a registeration date more than 10 days ago and with 0 posts and delete the, still, i like my method...lol

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