FYI: Old accounts cleanup - accidentally deleted members show up as "Guest"

**Dianyla** · January 31st, 2011, 04:39 AM

As some of you have noticed, our registered users count was above 35,000! This can pose a high burden on our server and database, and so I have started to do some housecleaning.

Tonight, I have cleaned up about 1200 old accounts (registered more than 1 year ago) that did not have a verified/authorized email address. These never-completed new registrations are probably not going to finish by now...

In the near future, I will also be deleting the horde of registered bot accounts, there are about 3500 of those. Note that all 3500 were banned one-by-one by the moderation team over the course of the past year. That's a lot of work!

This is just an FYI. If anyone experiences any problems with their account or is suddenly unable to login, please contact the mod team. Thanks!

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**tigr** · January 31st, 2011, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by Dianyla

Tonight, I have cleaned up about 1200 old accounts (registered more than 1 year ago) that did not have a verified/authorized email address.

Thank you!

In the near future, I will also be deleting the horde of registered bot accounts, there are about 3500 of those. Note that all 3500 were banned one-by-one by the moderation team over the course of the past year. That's a lot of work!

Thanks to the mod team for all their hard work!

**chopandchange** · January 31st, 2011, 06:23 AM

Just a question though: if they aren't able to log in, how exactly are they going to contact the mod team? Is there some kind of general email address visible to non-registered members?

**Dianyla** · January 31st, 2011, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by chopandchange

Just a question though: if they aren't able to log in, how exactly are they going to contact the mod team? Is there some kind of general email address visible to non-registered members?

Anonymous/unregistered members will hopefully see this here in Site Support, and then they can email the TLHC Staff account: tlhcstaff@gmail.com

ETA: They used to be able to reply without logging in here in Site Support but no longer.

**chopandchange** · January 31st, 2011, 06:29 AM

Oh I see! Thank you, Dianyla. I didn't know that.

**Tresses** · January 31st, 2011, 07:14 AM

Great idea, Dianyla. Have you also considered deleting members who've never posted and haven't even logged in after x-many years? Their accounts would be considered dormant, yes?

**Dianyla** · January 31st, 2011, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Tresses

Great idea, Dianyla. Have you also considered deleting members who've never posted and haven't even logged in after x-many years? Their accounts would be considered dormant, yes?

Yep, old and very inactive (as in, haven't logged in in years) zero-posters are also on the target list.

**Tresses** · January 31st, 2011, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Dianyla

Yep, old and very inactive (as in, haven't logged in in years) zero-posters are also on the target list.

That ought to clean things up quite a bit!

**LaurelSpring** · January 31st, 2011, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by Dianyla

Anonymous/unregistered members will hopefully see this here in Site Support, and then they can email the TLHC Staff account: tlhcstaff@gmail.com

ETA: They used to be able to reply without logging in here in Site Support but no longer.

Thanks for posting this just in case. I didnt know this.