Pruning inactive accounts

[KE4AVB]

This week I will be deleting about 126 inactive users accounts so the total number of members reported should drop. Many of these accounts date to the beginning of the PPTEN forum. These members have never posted a single post or are spammers that had their accounts deactivated. These deletions are permanent (I can not restore them) so if any these non-posting member wish to post they need to recreate their accounts.

This pruning will more reflective of our actual member base of 662 625 active members.

[RoyM]

Just like clearing post its off the refrigerator door. Time to clean house

[KE4AVB]

Yes, the actual count of deleted accounts turned out to be 251 as 126 weren't reflected in the membership count. I cleared accounts that were inactive (never logged in) and those accounts that had zero posts that were last active prior to 01/01/2015.

[okie]

I will try and keep my post count up so I will not be swept away. What do they call the people who hang around and don't contribute anything. I hate to say it but I may be a drone. But sometime I do make someone smile.
Can a visitor just read only on this forum. I see that we have a lot of visitors (guests) sometimes.


Okie

[KE4AVB]

I will try and keep my post count up so I will not be swept away. What do they call the people who hang around and don't contribute anything. I hate to say it but I may be a drone. But sometime I do make someone smile.
Can a visitor just read only on this forum. I see that we have a lot of visitors (guests) sometimes.


Okie

Okie, don't worry I was just cleaning up the member file to reflect better our actual members. Personally I consider a member don't ever post or hasn't even logged in two years they petty well a non-participate member; beside, most the ones that got cleared today were either disabled spammers or members that only signed up and never went any further. Note: the spammers IP and email addresses have been banned are still banned including the only member that we ever banned.

And to answer the question about "Visitors are they just able Read (View) posts?" the answer is yes; except, they can't access members profiles, the manuals download forum nor post questions or comments. A lot of the visitors are referrals from search engines like Google when visitors are searching for related info. I even seen some of my own posts pop up on some my Google searches.

[DennyIN]

I seldom log in but open the site several times a day to keep up with who is doing what to repair equipment, and to the general discussion for a possible bit of humor. Sorry I have little to contribute as am not as technical as most, just enough to keep my equipment running, and my neighbors. I'm retired and the neighbors I help are either disabled or lack any kind of ability to work on their equipment.

[KE4AVB]

Denny,

As I said among what I was deleting were some accounts with zero posts that haven't even logged in two years. I kinda to like to know that they is actually still alive and hopefully well.

As for being non technical you can still have valuable input. I had customers that I know very well knew not a thing about a piece equipment other than how to operate it and that was debatable ask what something is while I working their equipment and it be what is wrong with it. Those questions sometimes refocuses my attention as it is so easy to stuck and by overlook something obvious.

I consider the only dumb question is the one that don't get asked and I have asked some that are what others might consider the dumbest but if I have a question and don't know the answer I ask. Sometimes all I get is dumb looks back but it has gotten me out trouble numerous times too. I knew a fellow tech that preferred to tell me to go to heck when I asked him a question about a piece of equipment that he knows how to work on so I finally quit asking him and gave him the same treatment when he was stuck repairing a hydrostatic. I just said ask someone else which pissed him off.

It like the other day a customer ask why the the new PTO he was installing won't work. I just pointed out something that was obvious which was a missing fuse then he installs another fuse and it still didn't work. Of course the fuse he installed was bad too. Politely decline to fix it for free and I offer to repair it if he couldn't figure out the rest as it is how I make my living.

[okie]

I seldom log in but open the site several times a day to keep up with who is doing what to repair equipment, and to the general discussion for a possible bit of humor. Sorry I have little to contribute as am not as technical as most, just enough to keep my equipment running, and my neighbors. I'm retired and the neighbors I help are either disabled or lack any kind of ability to work on their equipment.

Hi Denny
Sounds like we are in the same boat. Retired,non pro, work on own equipment and neighbors, check in several times a day, and enjoy a smile once in a while. Over all, not a bad life.


Travis

[coldinbuffalo]

I'm also a non-pro who fixes his own equipment and helps out neighbors. This site is just a deep well of knowledge. I want to thank all the regular contributors and pros who have taught me so much. Technical manuals can only do so much for us parts changers.

[Franz]

I'm really gonna miss Bobo.