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RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by jenn » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:12 pm

Ok, in the e-mail I accidentally wrote Jan 18th. I meant the 19th.

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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:29 am

In order to clean up of the user list, unused accounts will be deleted:

1) I will delete all users who never logged in, never posted, and registered before 01/01/2011.
They are obviously not "real users" of this forum.
That should remove almost half of the current user list.
It's scheduled for this week-end.

2) In a second time, later, we'll remove users who never posted and haven't logged in since months.
It's not planed yet, and the exact action will be re-think after seeing step 1 results.


In any case, if you have never posted, your account may be deleted.
To be sure you will keep your account, please post at least once. For example by replying "I'm alive" in this topic.
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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:27 pm

Step 1 is done.
The user list have gone down from 3097 users to 1650 :mrgreen:
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Post by jenn » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:32 am

Awesome! Thanks so much Shirluban!

I can look at some too. It will be great to have some real numbers too. A lot of these names were spam users carried over from the old forums on our fireboard forum.

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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:01 pm

For step 2, I think about removing all users
who never posted and haven't logged in since 2010-06-01.
That means 80-85% of the current user list, including Gem and garthe (that's not their actual accounts, but likely test account not used since 2008).

And step 3 will be removing all these banned spammers account.
I've noticed spammers don't even wait for an account to be banned to create a new one anyway.
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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:26 pm

Step 2 and 3 are planed for the end of this month.

If you have never posted, your account may be deleted.
To be sure you will keep your account, please post at least once.
For example by replying "I'm alive" in this topic.
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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Zi Rong Low » Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:21 am

I'm alive!!! :)

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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Zi Rong Low » Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:10 am

Edit: Oh it's on the homepage, my bad!

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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:11 am

Done.
Step 2 brought the user list down from 1733 to 391 (so it removed 77%).
Step 3 brought it to 315.

But there is still a lot of spam accounts, hopefully not posting.
So I guess step 4 will be to check profiles' website's link and delete users who don't comply with the registration terms (to not say ad for porn).
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Post by Apenjafe » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:05 pm

Step 2 and 3 are planed for the end of this month.If you have never posted, your account may be deleted.To be sure you will keep your account, please post at least once. For example by replying "I'm alive" in this topic.

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Post by Shirluban » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:44 pm

Apenjafe wrote:
Step 2 and 3 are planed for the end of this month.If you have never posted, your account may be deleted.To be sure you will keep your account, please post at least once. For example by replying "I'm alive" in this topic.

:(
What does that mean?
I've kept tract of every usernames I've deleted, and "Apenjafe" is not one of them.
By the way this user account is typical of spam, especially its website link.

Epic spam bot post or I'm a douche-bag?
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Post by xKime » Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:33 pm

Shirluban wrote:
Apenjafe wrote:
Step 2 and 3 are planed for the end of this month.If you have never posted, your account may be deleted.To be sure you will keep your account, please post at least once. For example by replying "I'm alive" in this topic.

:(
What does that mean?
I've kept tract of every usernames I've deleted, and "Apenjafe" is not one of them.
By the way this user account is typical of spam, especially its website link.

Epic spam bot post or I'm a douche-bag?
IMHO, a little bit of a, a little bit of b.

Maybe not necessarily a bot, but a human getting paid to advertise and preserve his account?

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Post by Enfodo » Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:20 am

Step 1 is done.The user list have gone down from 3097 users to 1650

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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Shirluban » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:51 am

Step 4 is done.

The number of writers who have insterst in sports/cars/moto (and dating) is amazing.
But not as amazing as the number of <country #4> people living almost anywere except in <country #4>.

The user list had gone down from 319 to 261.
So the overall cleaning had removed 91.6% of the user list from its start!
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Re: RM.com Forum Maintenence

Post by Tom Sloper » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:20 pm

Good work!
4649おねがいします。

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