Topic by AngerFist

Posted: 7/7/2007 5:36 PM

Post subject: Registered users

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AngerFist

Active player (432)

Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3517
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Did 600 users suddenly lost their accounts?

Nitrogenesis wrote:

Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!

Arc wrote:

I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.

natt wrote:

I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it

Cooljay wrote:

Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P

Posted: 7/7/2007 5:45 PM

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upthorn

He/Him

Emulator Coder, Active player (388)

Joined: 3/24/2006
Posts: 1802

in #nesvideos on July 04.

[17:46:39] <Bisqwit> Time to delete >600 users
[17:47:13] <Soulrivers> Bisqwit what are those users?
[17:47:14] <Bisqwit> First, a database backup
[17:47:28] <Bisqwit> Soulrivers: Users who have never posted a post, rated any movie, etc
[17:47:36] <Soulrivers> ok
[17:48:08] <Raiscan> is this past a certain date?
[17:49:10] <Bisqwit> Yes

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Posted: 7/7/2007 9:56 PM

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Warp

Banned User, Former player

Joined: 3/10/2004
Posts: 7698
Location: Finland

I wonder why 600 people have registered but then done nothing with their account.

Posted: 7/7/2007 9:57 PM

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DK64_MASTER

Joined: 10/24/2005
Posts: 1080
Location: San Jose

Maybe they never got their activation email? Would these types of accounts be in this list?

<agill> banana banana banana terracotta pie! <Shinryuu> ho-la terracotta barba-ra anal-o~

Posted: 7/7/2007 10:09 PM

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Xkeeper

Banned User, Former player

Joined: 12/23/2004
Posts: 1850

Administering a board with 134 0-post users (out of 619, in only ~5 months) I can say that it isn't very strange at all. Our board doesn't even have any activation features -- it's just register and post. Perhaps they just registered to register, or were going to make a post but thought better. There's no reason anyone knows, because since they never post, it's impossible to contact htem back and figure out why :) I suppose it's an unsolved mystery indeed. Although I wonder how long it took Nesvideos to collect 600 0-post users.

Perma-banned

Posted: 7/7/2007 10:15 PM

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DK64_MASTER

Joined: 10/24/2005
Posts: 1080
Location: San Jose

Maybe some of them wanted to vote on a submission, but then realized that newly registered users cannot post until a certain grace period/post number is reached.

<agill> banana banana banana terracotta pie! <Shinryuu> ho-la terracotta barba-ra anal-o~

Posted: 7/8/2007 12:20 AM

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ZeXr0

Joined: 8/27/2006
Posts: 883

Xkeeper: Select * from Users where (Select count(*) from thread where Thread.Iduser = users.iduser) = 0 Something like that.

Posted: 7/8/2007 12:25 AM

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Bisqwit

Editor, Active player (296)

Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth

DK64_MASTER wrote:

Maybe they never got their activation email? Would these types of accounts be in this list?

Yes, but those aren't the majority (making only 1/6 of the deleted accounts).

Posted: 7/8/2007 3:43 PM

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Chamale

He/Him

Player (178)

Joined: 10/20/2006
Posts: 1352
Location: Canada

I think quite a few wrongly assumed you need to register to download an AVI. I go to one forum with an online game that you need to register to play. 50% of users have never posted.

Posted: 7/8/2007 3:46 PM

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Raiscan

Joined: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1235
Location: United Kingdom

Chamale wrote:

I think quite a few wrongly assumed you need to register to download an AVI. I go to one forum with an online game that you need to register to play. 50% of users have never posted.

I'm pretty sure a large majority would try their luck first and have a go.

<adelikat> I am annoyed at my irc statements ending up in forums & sigs

Posted: 7/8/2007 6:38 PM

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Bag_of_Magic_Food

He/Him

Active player (278)

Joined: 5/29/2004
Posts: 5712

And maybe the 600 is actually the minority, since this site's just that popular?

put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude

Posted: 7/8/2007 6:47 PM

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Truncated

Editor, Reviewer, Experienced player (969)

Joined: 4/17/2004
Posts: 3107
Location: Sweden

They could also be users who just like to lurk and still keep track of where there are new posts... in which case I can imagine them being a bit upset if their account was deleted. A "reply to this email if you want to keep your account" could be a good idea. Or looking at how often they log in instead of how often they post.

Posted: 7/8/2007 6:53 PM

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Bisqwit

Editor, Active player (296)

Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth

Truncated wrote:

A "reply to this email if you want to keep your account" could be a good idea.

There actually is a clause like that in the deletion e-mail.

Truncated wrote:

Or looking at how often they log in instead of how often they post.

The deletion'o'matic checks a few different aspects for making the decision. Unfortunately though, there is no data from which to surmise how often the person has been reading the forums.

Posted: 7/8/2007 6:56 PM

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Truncated

Editor, Reviewer, Experienced player (969)

Joined: 4/17/2004
Posts: 3107
Location: Sweden

>There actually is a clause like that in the deletion e-mail. Oh, so there was a deletion e-mail. I didn't see anything about it in the topic before this. Then all should be good, never mind my complaints.

Posted: 7/8/2007 6:59 PM

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Bisqwit

Editor, Active player (296)

Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth

The deletion e-mail looks like this:

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:00:31 +0300
From: <email address>
To: <email address>
Subject: Nesvideos forums: Deleting inactive accounts

TASvideos Forums - Inactive account deletion

We are automatically deleting your account due to inactivity.

Your account details:
* Username: Zartan
* Email address: <email address>
* You have last visited the board 257.9 days ago.
* You never posted.
* You have never rated any movies.

This deletion was carried out automatically by a program that
measures one's past activity. If you believe the deletion was
carried out in error (for example, you have contributed in
some movies), please send e-mail to the administrator of
the board at <email address> and your username may be restored.

Thank you for visiting and welcome again. You may also reregister
if you wish, but note that the main site,
 http://TASvideos.org/
does not require registration to be used.

--
Thanks, phpBB2
on behalf of Bisqwit

Posted: 7/9/2007 1:47 AM

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ZeXr0

Joined: 8/27/2006
Posts: 883

[17:48:08] <Raiscan> is this past a certain date? [17:49:10] <Bisqwit> Yes

There's no need to worry, as people that log in to track new post log's in at least once every 2 month ? So if it's past a certain date, there's no problem. By the way, what was the date ?

Posted: 7/9/2007 2:01 PM

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Bisqwit

Editor, Active player (296)

Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth

ZeXr0 wrote:

By the way, what was the date ?

100 days for non-confirmed registrations, 250 days for confirmed ones. Btw, this was the third or fourth time I ran the user purge script during the operation of the board. Rarely anybody cares, but perhaps AngerFist likes big numbers? :)

Posted: 7/10/2007 2:30 AM

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mmbossman

Experienced player (822)

Joined: 11/18/2006
Posts: 2426
Location: Back where I belong

Bisqwit wrote:

Rarely anybody cares

I care, now my congratulations post makes me look crazy. Well more crazy than normal anyway.

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