25006 members and counting...

Gramphos · November 28, 2002, 13:59

Today the 25000 members milestone was passed, and the members increase faster and faster. As it is now it's hard for Markos to do a feature each 1000 member, so how long until we make 26000?

...and how long before the next (25k members) feature is added to the forum?

Dauphin · November 28, 2002, 16:26

How long 'til Markos clears out all the old accounts that have no posts and haven't been used for 3 years?

Rasbelin · November 28, 2002, 16:35

Never. Why would he want to erase all the accounts as that would mean less "users"?

Anyway...

Well done. Over 25 000 registered accounts.

Dauphin · November 28, 2002, 16:35

Looking at the members list some 8,000 have never posted, of those 5,000 registered over a year ago.

Dauphin · November 28, 2002, 16:37

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Never. Why would he want to erase all the accounts as that would mean less "users"?

Anyway...

Well done. Over 25 000 registered accounts.

Well he can delete them from the database and still report "XX,000" registrations. It just gets rid of the tat.

There are far less than 25,000 active users, so why try and imply otherwise.

Provost Harrison · November 28, 2002, 17:33

Dammit SD, we want big numbers!

Dauphin · November 28, 2002, 17:41

25,000

Big enough?

Its not a problem, I'm just one of those people that likes to throw out old stuff that serves no purpose and is only taking up space.

Rasbelin · November 28, 2002, 17:57

If we kick out all the "dead" accounts, CFC should do that too. Otherwise it's unfair competition and Poly drops far behind CFC in comparison.

DrSpike · November 28, 2002, 18:47

Do we know, say, how many users have posted in the last month?

Skanky Burns · November 28, 2002, 21:04

You can do these searches with the member link above, then going to advanced search.

1857 posters have posted within the last month.
243 have posted since yesterday.

DrSpike · November 28, 2002, 21:09

That's more than I would have thought.

mrmitchell · November 28, 2002, 21:25

If it's of any interest I had the incredible luck of loadng a page that said 25000 members, exactly 25000, I kid you not

And the Welcome to newest member was TheCrusader, does that mean he gets a prize?

Alex · November 29, 2002, 07:20

I'm with SD on this. The old, dusty and never used accounts should be deleted. Who cares about CFC? It's not about quantity, it's about quality. And we are the winners.

Rasbelin · November 29, 2002, 07:37

I agree with Alex and Saggy. Dusting of accounts that haven't been used for e.g. 1 year could well be deleted as that would 1. save server capacity (at least the time used by MySQL to create the lists of members) 2. get rid of old and otherwise possible hibernation DL accounts.

Any comments from the authorities like Dan and Markos?

Alex,

of course we are the winners.

How dare you doubt that.

TheStinger · November 29, 2002, 07:53

i agree with those other people

MarkG · November 29, 2002, 07:58

ras

1. there's no issue with that. if there's one table in the sql database causing problem, it's the search index one...

2. actually, it would open the way for the recreation of old dl's

mrmitchell · November 29, 2002, 09:42

We don't need to compete with Civfanatics on number of users, we need to compete on number of threads and posts...

This brings us to
61,865 threads and
1,299,685 posts!

CFC has
36,166 threads and
607,765 posts.

Of course, it's all friendly competition...

Tuberski · November 29, 2002, 09:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
Today the 25000 members milestone was passed, and the members increase faster and faster. As it is now it's hard for Markos to do a feature each 1000 member, so how long until we make 26000?

Hey! You did my self imposed job- Doing one of Markos' jobs!

ACK!

Dauphin · November 29, 2002, 13:48

Quote:

Originally posted by MarkG
ras

1. there's no issue with that. if there's one table in the sql database causing problem, it's the search index one...

2. actually, it would open the way for the recreation of old dl's

If they have nil posts anyway they couldn't have been troublesome DLs.

mrmitchell · November 29, 2002, 14:24

ha ha. why would someone want a DL? I can only think of three reasons?
EDIT: I mean, ha ha to SD's post.

1) Cheat in a Democracy Game
2) Kick up activity in a virtually dead forum
3) They hate Apolyton/They hate rules

Are there any more reasons?

All the nil posts people should be cleared out. It would probably open up some better user-names. But some of the nil-post people might just only post in the OT forum...hrm...

Alex · November 30, 2002, 00:00

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
ha ha. why would someone want a DL? I can only think of three reasons?
EDIT: I mean, ha ha to SD's post.

1) Cheat in a Democracy Game
2) Kick up activity in a virtually dead forum
3) They hate Apolyton/They hate rules

Are there any more reasons?

A lot, believe me... especially in the OTF...

War4ever · November 30, 2002, 02:56

how many are dls

Skanky Burns · November 30, 2002, 07:15

DLs are created for entertainment purposes. To cause trouble without getting consequences for their main login (well, thats the plan I presume).

And DLs could have made posts in a thread that was deleted (thus removing the post from their post count) or posting in the OT forum, a post-count dead zone.

DrSpike · November 30, 2002, 08:24

Looks like we have found the DL expert around here.

tniem · November 30, 2002, 12:39

DrSpike,

You just have to be around here long enough to see many people caught for DLs and see why they were caught. There have been entire discussions going on among DLs in the past. There have been DLs created to get around bans for improper posts. There have been DLs created for anything you can imagine.