Kill 90% of WP "members"

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Of 49,128 members,
45,467 have less than 100 posts

32,869
have less than 3 posts


WP needs smilies data!

so much for the tribute

And how many of them have never made a post?

How many of them have over 1000?

How many of them have over 10,000?

Perhaps. However, I've been a member of the Ship of Fools forum for a while, and have only a very few posts there (mostly because there's people saying Clever Stuff) - but I'd be deeply miffed if someone randomly deleted my account.

I think the simplest solution would be to remove the display of member numbers. Few people would care how many dormant accounts were sitting in a database somewhere if it weren't advertised, and I'm guessing the server could in principle deal with a very much larger number without suffering in any way.

They should probably clean house. Send a PM to all members asking for a reply within 1 months time. Then put those accounts that don't in some sort of 6 month/one year limbo. So if they missed the 1 month mark they can still have a chance to reactivate for 6 months or a year, but their account will be effectively off the radar until they return/choose to reactivate. That way people that are very infrequent posters won't unfairly lose their accounts. Just a thought

Can you tell the difference between a lurker and an unused account? I don't see any last logged in dates. And why do we care about unused accounts anyway?

I think I've missed something here.

And I suppose if you post here anyway you'll be perfectly alright. Because you're posting.

So the argument goes. Ahem.