Posted: 2014-01-30 22:05
From the beginning of 2009 until mid 2010 I had no Internet connection whatsoever becaused I moved home and there were technical difficulties. However, my Yahoo accounts were not deleted, nor where the AOL, ICQ, Jabber and other IM/e-mail accounts and there are many places I haven't visited in a very long time but my accounts are still alive there. It wasn't that I abandoned them - it was just a technical impossibility.
You do not provide notification e-mails for replies or new posts for registered members. We've had that discussion already, won't revive it. But since I often forget in a disturbing manner (possibly Alzheimer's, dunno), it's possible I may simply forget about this place, unwillingly. Or I may fall from the roof and lay in a coma in a hospital bed for a year. Well, guess you don't consider your site so important to me and obviously I'm not important to you at all.
But let me ask you: how much physical space does a user account take? Is it that much to justify deletion? What happens with usernames after the deletion of their accounts - will they be reusable? If so, don't you think it would be highly dangerous? Old members might trust each-other (not only from here) so when a long-lost "member" comes back with the same nickname and publishes some malware, people may fall for it, before you get the chance to check the attachments and so on. But even false statements may be made by someone impersonating an old member.
Of course, you may blacklist the deleted members' nicknames so they would not be available again. That list may take some space. If you add to it their old posts it may grow quite a lot, maybe more that their actual accounts would take. Would that be beneficial to anybody?
So the actual question is: what is the REAL purpose of this action?
You do not provide notification e-mails for replies or new posts for registered members. We've had that discussion already, won't revive it. But since I often forget in a disturbing manner (possibly Alzheimer's, dunno), it's possible I may simply forget about this place, unwillingly. Or I may fall from the roof and lay in a coma in a hospital bed for a year. Well, guess you don't consider your site so important to me and obviously I'm not important to you at all.
But let me ask you: how much physical space does a user account take? Is it that much to justify deletion? What happens with usernames after the deletion of their accounts - will they be reusable? If so, don't you think it would be highly dangerous? Old members might trust each-other (not only from here) so when a long-lost "member" comes back with the same nickname and publishes some malware, people may fall for it, before you get the chance to check the attachments and so on. But even false statements may be made by someone impersonating an old member.
Of course, you may blacklist the deleted members' nicknames so they would not be available again. That list may take some space. If you add to it their old posts it may grow quite a lot, maybe more that their actual accounts would take. Would that be beneficial to anybody?
So the actual question is: what is the REAL purpose of this action?