Culling the herd

[Jackson Creed]

Hi all,

I've personally zorched three spammers today alone (and deleted their profiles) and I think it's well past time to clear out the vast numbers of members who have made no posts (probably 'cos the Mods have smited their posts; good job boys and girls!). So if anyone knows any members who are confirmed spammers, then note them down and let me know and I'll delete them. I'll be fairly incommunicado for about a week, so don't be surprised at any lack of reply before then, but once I'm back and have a good couple of hours to spare I'm going to pretty much clear out all those members who haven't made any contributions (just a single post is more than enough to save them though!) unless members know that a particular profile is not a spam-monkey.

::nuclear

Later peeps,

JC

[BlueNinja]

I can't think of a reason why a profile with no posts needs to be kept around. But boy, that'll shrink the membership list dramatically.

Will it change our membership number? ::huh

[Bahamut810]

If you take out everyone who has not posted at all , our membership count will drop 830 members. Taking out all the 1 posters (most of our spam bots fall under this I think) will take out 110 more

[phoenix]

Yeah. ::rolleyes I was going to post my congratulations when we reached 1,000 members, but when I realized how many of those were spammers, it hardly seemed worth it.

[Blue Thunder]

Some people may reguister, but not post, so they can keep track of which threads are new and old to them.

I say only delete the older ones for now, to be safe.

[Jackson Creed]

I tend to agree. There have always been a fair number of regular visitors who do not post, but should still be made to feel welcome, which is why I've been compiling a list of all those members who seem to be obviously spammers (since I can see their email address as well, it makes it a lot easier; you can spot the spam-monkeys a mile off). I'm only going to clear out the more obvious ones at first, but if any of the Mods zorches a post, note down the member who posted it and I'll Quantum Inferno them.

I don't think we've reached a point where approval is required for registration yet. I've always considered EON to be a Library of Alexandria where all are welcome... so long as you play by our rules. Thoughts?

JC

[metaphysician]

I tend to agree. There have always been a fair number of regular visitors who do not post, but should still be made to feel welcome, which is why I've been compiling a list of all those members who seem to be obviously spammers (since I can see their email address as well, it makes it a lot easier; you can spot the spam-monkeys a mile off). I'm only going to clear out the more obvious ones at first, but if any of the Mods zorches a post, note down the member who posted it and I'll Quantum Inferno them.

I don't think we've reached a point where approval is required for registration yet. I've always considered EON to be a Library of Alexandria where all are welcome... so long as you play by our rules. Thoughts?

JC

Spam doesn't seem to have been enough of a problem since I started posting here to require closed registration. Certainly I've seen sites with far worse problems.

[Arcanum_V]

I've always considered EON to be a Library of Alexandria where all are welcome...

You're not going to copy all of our books, keep the originals, and leave us with the copies, are you?

[Bahamut810]

You're not going to copy all of our books, keep the originals, and leave us with the copies, are you?

No...thats my job sucka ::devil

[phoenix]

Every time I delete a post, I also raise the poster's warning level and "disable future posting until further notice". Since we don't use the warning protocol as it was intended, it seems likely that every member who's ever been warned could simply be deleted.