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Upcoming Pruning of Dead Accounts

Discussion in 'Announcements and Rules' started by tehelgee, Jul 31, 2020.

  1. Weeble5536

    Weeble5536 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Is there a way to check if I've done the e-mail verification?

    'cause I have no clue if I have or not. If I have, it was a WHILE ago.
     
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  2. TheOtherSandman

    TheOtherSandman Well worn.

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    See below:
    You're good.
     
  3. Weeble5536

    Weeble5536 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    ....derp. I'm gonna blame being awake at 3:30am.

    Thanks.
     
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  4. SolarC

    SolarC Getting out there.

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    That is truly a lot of dead accounts, also might as well do my first post ever here and go back to lurking.
     
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  5. Mihari

    Mihari Know what you're doing yet?

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    I see this as an absolute win.
     
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  6. Blueshadowgear

    Blueshadowgear Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    The drawbacks of sites that require login to check things out ,(not meant as a criticism) is alot of people making an account out of curiosity to see what its like and for whatever their reason losing intrest or not finding content to their liking.
     
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  7. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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    You should probably reword this; the current phrasing makes it sound like any one of the individual criteria (rather than all of one of the sets) gets you pruned, which is why you're getting a deluge of people posting here who didn't need to.
     
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  8. Jeriously

    Jeriously A mook for life

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    Lurker no more...
    Do accounts that view weekly but haven't posted or pmed anything count as inactive?
     
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  9. Grek

    Grek (she/her)

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    According to the OP, just having logged in at any point in the past year suffices to keep your account unpruned.
     
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  10. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    Okay, asking the real questions here:

    Will we have enough accounts left to flex on our sister sites about how many users we have and sneer at them smugly?
     
  11. .We

    .We Lewdness is just a matter of perspective

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    RIP lurkers.

    I'd willing to bet 4 internet cookies a third of those accounts are typical churn and the rest are one-off accounts to access NSFW,
     
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  12. Ryu5787

    Ryu5787 Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    Well, I guess I lose my posting virginity.... I don't feel any different.
     
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  13. Locos_Docos

    Locos_Docos Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    I don't even remember why I created an account here for in the first place.
     
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  14. soggy noodle

    soggy noodle Piping hot, mecha flavored.

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    Clearly it was for the very NSFW handholding.
     
  15. Dragon of chaos

    Dragon of chaos Getting sticky.

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    I am just here for things to read and sometimes vote on quests.
     
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  16. Firedon

    Firedon Experienced.

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    But those people have posts and completed email registration. Therefore while the users are dead, the accounts wouldn't count as dead under the criteria in the first post.
     
  17. chuckson

    chuckson Making the rounds.

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    so this is completely hypothetical because i have posted things in the past year and i think i can remember logging in after like a power outage or something but for Set A i noticed one of the bullet points was not logging in in the past year and i cant remember EVER voluntarily hitting the logout button and then logging back in so does being logged in and active count for that or do i need to actually log out and in for it to count as a log in?
     
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  18. Terribly Fluffy

    Terribly Fluffy Lewdly Lurking

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    Same, minus the Quest part since I haven't really interacted with one in ages.
     
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  19. StormBreaker

    StormBreaker Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    Posting to ensure survival.
     
  20. The Shadowmind

    The Shadowmind Well worn.

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    Will VoteTallyAccount be safe? The bot account doesn't exactly post, and just tally votes for nettally.
     
  21. Gman1000124

    Gman1000124 Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    Lurker status = Ruined!
    But now I feel free.
     
  22. CrunchySharpie

    CrunchySharpie A wild Bowsette appeared!

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    Pruning roughly 14.5k'll drop us to the bottom numbers wise, but I can't recall such a purge happening recently for SV or SB. So they'll be the new hive of scum, villainy and dead accounts, while we'll be the glorious active account master race, take pride in our active account superiority. :V
     
  23. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    Awesome news then. Being justified in being condescendingly smug about shite like this towards thousands of people on other sites is the best news I had all month.
     
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  24. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    It's logged into each time it's used, so it is safe.
     
  25. Tremerid

    Tremerid Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    Well, since I can't recall if I've ever posted with this thing and am a mildly paranoid sort, I'll drop a deuce in this thread to mark my existence. I made this account and one for AH at the same time. This is the one that's still "Active". Funny how that works, isn't it?
     
  26. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    Each visit of the site is a log in. Whether you manually needed to enter your credentials or your cookie settings passed the check automatically, each visit is a new log in. Each time you visit the next page in a thread, a log in. Each time you change to a new subforum, a log in. Every post, a log in. If an action loads a new page with your account active, it's a log in.
     
  27. Megaolix

    Megaolix Moderator

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    In others words, if you are here logged to see what is happening to start with, you're already safe.
     
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  28. crystalwatcher

    crystalwatcher Lord of The Horni

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    In before you delete half of them and the site crashes :V

    (Honestly hope that doesn't happen but you have to admit that'd be funny.)
     
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  29. Spartan-025

    Spartan-025 Know what you're doing yet?

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    So Does this mean I actually have to start using QQ now?
     
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  30. Zeroelement222

    Zeroelement222 Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    Whelp, i'm a bit paranoid so i suppose i'll have to post just this once then.