Inactive members?

I was looking thruogh the member list, and I came across some poeple who joined, but then never came on again. That is kinda annoying to me. Liek can we really brag that we have 2000 memebers if only 100 of them are active? I say we have better controll on this Some ideas are:
1. If you sign up and dont come back on within one month, your account gets deleated.
2. If you have under 100 posts and leave for more than sixmonths, you get deleated.
stuff like that.
What do you think?

i agree with this totally....
I hate the people that come and and then leave in a instant!
delete them! thats what i say!

Most certainly not, because they might come back after a time. And seeing lots of guest posts everywhere would look stupid.

Plus, there might be people who really have got some problem in real life, which is why they are inactive for a while here and, with all due respect, I think deleting them would send out a message of the type "Who cares about your personal life? You should have been online nevertheless, everything else is unimportant!" ..... at least that's how I would react if I were to be deleted because of inactivity.

Its not so much the inactive people that annoy me. After all, maybe they did have some serious issue that prevented them from coming on. ..and the guest posts would get annoying.

Its more the people who have signed up, yet they never actually made any posts at all, never acutally came on the site afterwards. I think the people with zero posts and have never been on the site could be deleted, it wouldnt interfere with any posts, since they had none, and if they never came on the site once since signing up theres a pretty good chance they're not coming back. Or they forgot and would probably make a new account anyway so the old one could be deleted. After a certain time though. You wouldnt want to delete a person's account who just signed up and was planning on participating the next day or something only to find their account was deleted because they didnt post right away..

Personally, I have known at least one person who joined then as soon as he was sorted into Hufflepuff, he stopped coming by. That really annoyed me to be honest. I think that it would be good to base it on a case-by-case basis. Maybe if they join and do one post in a year, delete their account, but let people know of that stipulation from the start. I also know of one person who said she would not continue if she were to be sorted into Hufflepuff. That particularly bothers me because I think that's a positively silly reason to not maintain membership, especially since the houses are not anything like they are within the books.

Hm, a case-by-case solution wouldn't be half bad, but you have to consider the time it would take Elfie and Amy to do that. :/

Shausto-la wrote:

Its not so much the inactive people that annoy me. After all, maybe they did have some serious issue that prevented them from coming on. ..and the guest posts would get annoying.

Its more the people who have signed up, yet they never actually made any posts at all, never acutally came on the site afterwards. I think the people with zero posts and have never been on the site could be deleted, it wouldnt interfere with any posts, since they had none, and if they never came on the site once since signing up theres a pretty good chance they're not coming back. Or they forgot and would probably make a new account anyway so the old one could be deleted. After a certain time though. You wouldnt want to delete a person's account who just signed up and was planning on participating the next day or something only to find their account was deleted because they didnt post right away..

I actually agree with all of this. Members who signed and just never post should have their account deleted after a month, no matter what. Those who asked to be sorted and never returned should have the 3 months benefit of doubt then it's deleting time. All others i say let them me as we never know when they can rise from the underworld.

What was the old way? I personally like the way sorting is done. I never would have been a gryffie if it were based on some sort of quiz or something. Of course, I like all the houses, so I think I would have been happy either way.

It has never been a quiz though i used to have my own list and sorted in a way that enabled each house to have around hame number of active newbies. Of course, this isnt a failsafe way, though we do try now to get houses equal.

I see. I guess that does make sense. I showed my newbie-ness there. It still comes out from time to time.

I know I haven't read everyones post. I'm sorry I just don't have time, I do wish to reply to your post kathrineee_anne:

We do not know anything about whats going on in anyone else's life. We have no right to judge them for not coming back.
-Kit

Sorry if it was already stated.

well i think maybe a 2 year thing would be better!
just to give laods of time for them to come back... and if tey don't then they could start up again i see no reason for that... iots not like there gona remeber there password after two years is it... so it would be better off that way!

Yeah Elfie, If we could delete all the members with only 1-10 posts then that would narrow it down a bit. Inactive memebers like Fated4HP and MarieC should be kept because they once played a big part in HE life =)

I agree.
I mean, inactive members who join, and then only post to be sorted should be deleted.
On the other hand, member's that once were very active eg. the people who Pickles mentioned should be kept.
Also, I think Brunette (holly's) account sound be kept as a rememberance thing.

LucyXX

I dont...because half the time, some come back. I know there were some the other night and they had been on here for 2 years...yet they never got on until that night. So maybe after like...4 years...if they never get on...it would be smart.

Sure sure (Jacob style xD)
I guess so, but i think the ones who have never visited should be deleted, like they hardly remeber if they have never been on since signing up