Is Poly ever going to clean the 'members' list? - Page 2

alva · June 21, 2003, 10:40

You don't have to read your own cr*p

Ecthy · June 21, 2003, 10:56

Do other people do that?

FrustratedPoet · June 21, 2003, 11:01

Do other people do what? Read your cr*p? Or put themselves on ignore?

Ecthy · June 21, 2003, 11:08

Try to read in their own crap

Dauphin · June 21, 2003, 11:26

You can't put yourself on ignore. I've tried.

MarkG · June 21, 2003, 11:29

No

FrustratedPoet · June 21, 2003, 11:37

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Originally posted by Big Crunch
You can't put yourself on ignore. I've tried.

You most certainly can. I just put myself on ignore.

Panag · June 21, 2003, 11:56

hi ,

it would be good to send a pm if you have no posted in lets say three months , if you have no come back in six , and you have no stated that you are unaible to post due to vacation or whatever reason , its over , .....

have a nice day

Dauphin · June 21, 2003, 12:25

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

You most certainly can. I just put myself on ignore.

I must have tried and failed on CGN in that case.

FrustratedPoet · June 21, 2003, 12:33

It might be impossible on CGN - I've never tried there - but it works here. It could have something to do with the way the forum software was set up.

Martin Gühmann · June 21, 2003, 12:50

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Originally posted by Static Universe
Or forcing people to be logged in to surf the forums, which I personally hate, but it might give a better picture of who is on the forums at any given time.

Actual you are already be forced to be logged in, if you want to use all the needed features of this forum. For instance if I want to see an attached image here I have to click on it and are forced to log in readless of the fact if I am logged in or not. This is also true if I want to see someones profile, or want to use the search option or want to download an attached file, that conatins some necassary stuff for some files in the Apolyton directory, so you have to register if you just want to download an attachment. Regardless of the fact wheather you want to post wheather you don't want to post.

-Martin

Sirotnikov · June 21, 2003, 16:04

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I love how all the "solutions" require TONs of work...

My solution only requires a few (long) SQL commands

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No

there we have it fromt he man himself.

but since he allowed us to continue discussion (unless i'm misinterperting this thread being open), I would like to say that people who haven't posted even once (and I mean people who have 0 posts, and not a 0 post count) and registered before 2002, and haven't logged in since, have probably moved on with their life, or created a new user.

Static Universe · June 21, 2003, 17:16

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Originally posted by Martin Gühmann

Actual you are already be forced to be logged in, if you want to use all the needed features of this forum. For instance if I want to see an attached image here I have to click on it and are forced to log in readless of the fact if I am logged in or not. This is also true if I want to see someones profile, or want to use the search option or want to download an attached file, that conatins some necassary stuff for some files in the Apolyton directory, so you have to register if you just want to download an attachment. Regardless of the fact wheather you want to post wheather you don't want to post.

-Martin

True, but most "guests" probably aren't using these features. I surfed Poly for at least six months before registering.

I wonder how many people registered just to download one or two files? Probably a lot, so I wonder if forcing people to register is the best idea...

Q Classic · June 21, 2003, 22:12

perhaps a culling of the ranks might be necessary.

is it possible to do a two-stager pogrom?

first, check to see who hasn't posted in, say, a year or so.
then, check to see if they have less than, say, fifty posts.

if they fulfill both qualifications, delete the accounts?

Frankychan · June 21, 2003, 22:21

If the problem is just registering your name that has already been taken by someone else who hasn't posted, can't you just contact MarkG, Ming, rah, or DanQ and ask to take the name from the other person?

I know of one instance where this has happened...but I can't recall the person.

Skanky Burns · June 22, 2003, 01:42

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Originally posted by MarkG
No

Adagio · June 22, 2003, 06:11

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Originally posted by Frankychan
If the problem is just registering your name that has already been taken by someone else who hasn't posted, can't you just contact MarkG, Ming, rah, or DanQ and ask to take the name from the other person?

I know of one instance where this has happened...but I can't recall the person.

In theori it might work, but how many newbies knows exactly who to contact, before they register?

DrSpike · June 22, 2003, 11:08

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

You most certainly can. I just put myself on ignore.

Wise...........very wise.

FrustratedPoet · June 22, 2003, 11:12

/me puts Spike on ignore

DrSpike · June 22, 2003, 11:48

Well then the last 3 posts are going to be pretty hard to understand.

FrustratedPoet · June 22, 2003, 13:01

It makes the threads in this forum load much faster when our spam has been removed. All I need to do is add Skanky, Jamski and BC onto the list to complete the set.

Dauphin · June 22, 2003, 16:44

Interesting pick of names there FP, I did a quick tally of the number of posts by people in the last 15 threads to be posted in and I've cut off anyone who hasn't got at least 10 posts.

Spike and alva seem to be runaway champs at the spamming.

Code:

alva		55
DrSpike		41
Ming		32
Skanky Burns	31	
Harry Seldon	30	
panag		25
rah		24
mrmitchell	21	
Frustrated Poet	20	
alex		19
nikolai		17
obiwan18	15	
MarkG		14
Big Crunch	12	
Tuberski	12	
Thirgaral	11	
H Tower		10
Hydey		10

mrmitchell · June 22, 2003, 16:52

yes! I broke in the top..uh...8, even though i've been inactive in this forum for a couple days!

must be my ghost posting. heh heh heh...

FrustratedPoet · June 22, 2003, 18:12

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Originally posted by Big Crunch
Interesting pick of names there FP

You might not spam very much, mate, but it's high quality spam and tends to stick out.

Also, you know when you've spent too much time on Apolyton when .... you do

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I did a quick tally of the number of posts by people in the last 15 threads

DarkCloud · June 22, 2003, 18:32

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Then let's send a PM or email to them...

Then let's delete them...

Yeah, I'm sure you could come up with a way to do it automatically, but then it would take time to create such a hack to the system... And there would still be people who got nailed by accident because face it, no program is perfect.

Auto-email can be done. I don't think it takes a hack.

Just ask tordenskiold of historic-battles.com for how to do it

Dauphin · June 22, 2003, 18:34

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Also, you know when you've spent too much time on Apolyton when .... you do

I would have said "You know you are searching too hard for a valid spam post when....you do this:"

Skanky Burns · June 22, 2003, 19:17

4th, not too bad. I will of course have to try harder though, can't let Ming beat me.

Seriously though, interesting list.

alva · June 22, 2003, 19:34

Interesting, funny enough I just did one thread in this community and look what came up:

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User Posts 
ThePlagueRat  41 
Big Crunch  36 
Ming  32 
Asuka  26 
Kamrat X  26 
devilmunchkin  24 
red_jon  22 
DrSpike  20 
FrustratedPoet  19

Skanky Burns · June 22, 2003, 20:11

I bet that thread wasn't picked at random.

alva · June 22, 2003, 20:55

It was the first thread I tried, honestly, really!!!

(damn, now I'm doing it again.)