i was looking through the members list today because we seem to have gotten so many so very fast and i witnessed this:
i find that disturbing and sad all at the same time[/img]
Computer Science Canada Anyone find this disturbing? |
| Author: | Clayton [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:24 am ] |
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i was looking through the members list today because we seem to have gotten so many so very fast and i witnessed this:
i find that disturbing and sad all at the same time[/img] |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:08 pm ] |
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o.O I thought dan got rid of them and put in some security mesures to stop them from registering again... maybe thats all just in v3. |
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| Author: | richcash [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:13 pm ] |
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It looks like an administrator has taken care of these accounts, but this is nothing when you look at the big picture. There are 38 pages!  of users with 0 posts (and a number of these are from 2005 and before!). There are also a number of people with total posts between 1-5. I think it's pretty safe to delete all accounts under 5 total posts who haven't been on this year. Unless they have to be deleted manually, then it would be impossible! Plus, I'm not too sure how compsci stores its usernames, maybe nothing would happen to the site even if there were millions of users, then none of this matters. |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:30 pm ] |
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richcash wrote: There are also a number of people with total posts between 1-5. I think it's pretty safe to delete all accounts under 5 total posts who haven't been on this year.
Then what would happen to the posts made by those users? |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:25 pm ] |
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they will remain, you just cant click on their user name. |
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| Author: | richcash [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:29 pm ] |
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that, they would be seen as guests (according to something I read here), which wouldn't be as nice. But at least the ones with 0 posts could be deleted. It's not worth it at all if they have to be deleted manually, and this case was the most important to be dealt with (because the person or bot seemed like it was going to keep creating accounts infinitely!), but I'm just pointing out that there are a few other cases of people creating multiple accounts and not using any of them (it doesn't bother in me in any way unless it will potentially bother the performance of compsci in the future). |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:30 pm ] |
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actually i think their posts become posts by those of "Guest" |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:45 pm ] |
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y helo thar tony. 
*edit* That was originally in it's own forum, which most likely didn't have non-guest permissions set, so maybe bugz is right. |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:24 pm ] |
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I dont think it shows guest, it just shows the users name except it isn't linkable so like a guest with a name basically  Anyhow basically, you can delete those users. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:56 pm ] |
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AFAIK that is what happened on other sites that uses phpBB |
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| Author: | Dan [ Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:29 pm ] |
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It shows up as a guest on v2 and i see no reason to delete non-bot acounts for peoleop with no posts. The bot and unactivated acounts are removed every so offten (about once a month). |
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