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RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - Thomas Radtke - 06-05-2014 10:04 AM

(06-04-2014 01:23 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  Posting - and then going back and editing the post days or weeks later to add links.
Restrict editing to an hour or less. This is a reasonable timeframe imo.

Is there no mechanism to email users in danger of being kicked out of the forum?

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - CosmicTruth - 06-05-2014 10:12 AM

(04-14-2014 02:36 AM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  Yes, the system was set to prune accounts with low post counts starting at 120 days. I believe that was the default, but I have just increased it to one year.

So if Joe Horn stops posting and he gets dropped does all his posts get auto-deleted?

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - rkf - 06-05-2014 10:25 AM

(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  
(04-14-2014 02:36 AM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  Yes, the system was set to prune accounts with low post counts starting at 120 days. I believe that was the default, but I have just increased it to one year.

So if Joe Horn stops posting and he gets dropped does all his posts get auto-deleted?

No, there would be an unclickable Joe Horn mark above, completed with an unregistered info below. See e.g. here (Post #2) for me (rkf) after being pruned. If Joe Horn would register again, the old postings would not be connected to his new account.

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - CosmicTruth - 06-05-2014 11:02 AM

(06-05-2014 10:25 AM)rkf Wrote:  
(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  So if Joe Horn stops posting and he gets dropped does all his posts get auto-deleted?

No, there would be an unclickable Joe Horn mark above, completed with an unregistered info below. See e.g. here (Post #2) for me (rkf) after being pruned. If Joe Horn would register again, the old postings would not be connected to his new account.

So on 02-20-2014, 07:48 PM rkf posted a message, so message shows as "Unregistered". But now rkf re-regestered and is Online as a Junior Member because he re-Joined: Apr 2014. But the system was set to prune accounts with low post counts starting at 120 days, but was just increased it to one year. ...let me get my calculator, something isn't right.
...you got the boot dude
haha jk

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - rprosperi - 06-05-2014 12:03 PM

(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  
(04-14-2014 02:36 AM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  Yes, the system was set to prune accounts with low post counts starting at 120 days. I believe that was the default, but I have just increased it to one year.

So if Joe Horn stops posting and he gets dropped does all his posts get auto-deleted?

Can't happen. Basic laws of physics would prevent such an occurance...

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - walter b - 06-05-2014 01:13 PM

(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  ... does all his posts get auto-deleted?

Can't happen. Basic laws of grammar would prevent such an occurance as well.

SCNR Wink

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - Dave Hicks - 06-05-2014 08:12 PM

(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  So if Joe Horn stops posting and he gets dropped does all his posts get auto-deleted?

While several people have asked for pruning to be based on last login instead of post count – no such feature even exists in the software. Thus, Joe's account (with 194 posts so far) is safe from pruning even if he moves to a cave with no internet connectivity.

And posts were not deleted under original or new settings.

Old settings:
3 posts within the first 120 days

New Settings:
1 post within the first 365 days.

Joe was nowhere near either.

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - Joe Horn - 06-07-2014 05:53 AM

<crawls out of cave... blinks in the bright sunlight... crawls back into cave...>

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - CosmicTruth - 06-07-2014 12:08 PM

(06-05-2014 01:13 PM)walter b Wrote:  
(06-05-2014 10:12 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  ... does all his posts get auto-deleted?

Can't happen. Basic laws of grammar would prevent such an occurance as well.

SCNR Wink
I hope your not referring to my Arkansonian accent
If so i'd like to mention I didn't comment on your speeling!

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - walter b - 06-07-2014 12:24 PM

(06-07-2014 12:08 PM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  I hope your not referring to my Arkansonian accent
If so i'd like to mention I didn't comment on your speeling!

Feel free to comment on whatever you like. If you'd use my mother tongue for that I'd appreciate it even more. But don't use Alabama automation for translating.

d;-)

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - rprosperi - 06-07-2014 07:05 PM

(06-07-2014 12:08 PM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  I hope your not referring to my Arkansonian accent

Is "Arkansonian" really the correct term for someone from Arkansas? I would not have guessed right if I had to.

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - CosmicTruth - 06-08-2014 06:32 AM

(06-07-2014 07:05 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  
(06-07-2014 12:08 PM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  I hope your not referring to my Arkansonian accent

Is "Arkansonian" really the correct term for someone from Arkansas? I would not have guessed right if I had to.

I had just made that up, looks correct to me (so its most likely wrong).

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - d b - 06-09-2014 01:10 AM

(06-08-2014 06:32 AM)CosmicTruth Wrote:  
(06-07-2014 07:05 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Is "Arkansonian" really the correct term for someone from Arkansas? I would not have guessed right if I had to.

I had just made that up, looks correct to me (so its most likely wrong).

I've heard people from there say that (phonetically) it's ar-kan-soy-er. I don't know if they were kidding or how to spell it if it's real. I do know that it is NOT Arkansan. Them's fightin' words, yankee.

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - bhtooefr - 06-09-2014 03:09 AM

Wikipedia says that the US Government Printing Office recommends Arkansan, and also says that Arkansawyer and Arkie are alternate demonyms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._states

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - CosmicTruth - 06-09-2014 10:31 AM

(06-09-2014 03:09 AM)bhtooefr Wrote:  Wikipedia says that the US Government Printing Office recommends Arkansan, and also says that Arkansawyer and Arkie are alternate demonyms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._states
...and now Arkansonian.
btw I had no idea GPO was from Arkansas.
Smile

RE: Is there an automatic user deletion process active in this forum? - walter b - 06-09-2014 11:22 AM

Thanks to bhtooefr for tearing this subthread to shreds. Confused

d:-I