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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
csdb account notifications / closures
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I have to say, it makes no sense to close inactive accounts. C64 scene, where we are all old with kids and other stuff. and it's too much trouble to keep a small amount of metadata active in the database. strange one.
just my 2 pennies. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
if its too much trouble to log in once every 6 months.... strange one. Hearing it from someone with exactly zero contributions to the DB ... even more strange one. |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
Well, apologies - I use the forum occasionally - and I guess I don't log in often enough but it's not impossible that someone might be unavailable for a period of time.
I'm not a contributor true - and I appreciate the resource. I just don't understand the point of deleting users. I haven't deleted your exotica account for being inactive for example groepaz! :) (and your last login looks like it was 2010) |
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fade
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 290 |
it's the new extreme scene sport, how long can you not log in until your account gets closed. \o/ |
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soci
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 479 |
It's too much hassle to go through ssl tunnels and use w3m so that I can log in from a reasonably "safer" location then those networks I have access 97% of the year. This was a reason I got a closure warning one time as well.
So any plans to roll out https soon? Even self signed certificate would be an improvement over no encryption at all. Is this a hosting limitation?
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
Quote:I haven't deleted your exotica account for being inactive for example groepaz! :) (and your last login looks like it was 2010)
there is the difference between scene board and a random wiki =P
as for not understanding why deleting inactive users - _I_ dont understand why someone who uses csdb once every year needs an account at all. expiring accounts is also a common practise on forums (and even more so, BBSs), and for good reasons. considering the age of the server csdb is running on, i'd even say that purging old accounts will speed up the login process by keeping the userlog small :o)
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
random wiki? it is a lot more than that, but thanks for the compliment.
You need an account to post on the forum. I wanted to post on the forum so I needed an account.
For someone who is so clever and talented, you seem to be struggling here!
I don't think it is common practice either. No other forums I am on expire accounts (it is not 1990 and this isnt a dialup bbs). there should be no overhead with a properly designed and indexed database (unless you are talking a different of hundreds of thousands/millions of rows perhaps).
but ok. i get it. you don't agree. fine.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
Quote:You need an account to post on the forum. I wanted to post on the forum so I needed an account.
you needed an account to post in the forum that you can not post in the forum without an account? now who is struggling there? =)
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
no, you can't post in the forum without an account.
"You need to be logged in to post in the forum."
not sure what you are getting at ? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
the only posts you made since your reactivation are those in this very thread. i can only assume that it means that this was what you needed your account for. |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
you asked why someone who visits not so often needed an account. I needed an account to write on the forum at some point - although it may have not been the sole reason I registered (far too long ago to remember). I wasn't referring at all to this thread.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
ah so you werent complaining because you actually wanted to post something, but because maybe at some vague point in the future you might, and for that you'd need an account?. i can only quote the OP: strange one. |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
I don't know how this has happened. Intentional or some language barrier. i give up. its really very very simple, but.. |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
to add, i registered 10 years ago to csdb, so none of what you have written really makes any sense. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
the point is that you didnt post anything since 2012-06-22, except in this thread. so none of your complaint actually makes any sense either =P |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
then re-read what I have written, because it had nothing at all to do with wanting to post on the forum in recent days. that was just a response to your "why do you need an account". I needed an account (in the past) to post on the forum. and I did post on the forum. this thread was about the close account message.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
so you did infact not complain about that fact that your account was closed and you couldnt post in the forum because of that - it was this annoying "your account well be closed if you dont log in" reminder email that you cant ignore when you are not interested in it? now i get it. |
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BuZz
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 20 |
my account was not closed. I was questioning the usefulness/reasoning of closing accounts. (Although im so exhausted, I don't even care enough now to discuss it).
it was pretty obvious to everyone else. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
"it was pretty obvious to everyone else."
all the people involved and interested in this discussion, yeah.
and as for your question - the reason is to keep the amount of inactive accounts small. we also dont encourage creating accounts just for the sake of creating accounts. if this is annoying for people who log in once a year and do not contribute - thats exactly why. |
