Disabling Inactive A/c's.. What u think ??

there is no perfect way to do this, keep open you have 500,000 members but only 20,000 unique peers, people who are on at least 1 torrent.

we done this when we had 100,000 users, 100,000 peers, there was only 13,000 unique peers on the torrents.

If we do it with dl/ul then most ppl would get deleted, if we do it with forum posts, we would get a lot of spam, or members that cant speak english would get deleted.

even the login in only isnt foolproof, especially with the RSS feeds trackers have.

But we have to prune accounts, having 500,000 users, which i believe if we didnt prune accounts ever we would have easily, but only 60,000 peers and only 8,000 unique peers wouldnt look very good imo.

I agree to you stoi. But before deleting the account I blv the user should be informed about it via e-mail (Like an alert) . If he really doesn't wanna use it he will simply ignore that mail.

I think this can be easily appended into the script..

But this is in the rules and FAQ of every site, when you sign up you are supposed to read them.

We cant spoon feed everyone the info, if you dont read the rules or FAQ then is that the tracker staffs problem. when you sign up you should know this.

you can always ask the staff if you know you are going to be away for ages.

We have 1 user that was going to prison, we had another that was moving and knew that they wouldnt have the net for over 3 months.

We promoted them to uploader, which is the cut off class (staff as well obviously) for getting deleted due to inactivity, once they came back we demoted them again.

Most staff are not ogres, but if you cant help yourself (by reading the rules etc) then why should we go out of our way to help you.

I think its good.
If you cant log into the site once in a wile you really dont need it do you ?
Collecting trackers is lame and retarded. So if cant manage your accounts you have way to many. And you dont need them all, get purged and make room for a user that might actually use the site.

i agree with stoi, and if you can't login for a long period of time for a certain reason, you can probably sort it out with the staff of your sites.

Have to leave for the time being, will get back on this topic later ...

Before leaving just one more thing stoi if u think that email thing is wrong, just post a vote on ur site and see what's the outcome of that...


I agree that useless accounts should be deleted but sending an email is just equal to asking a user to login once every 30 days or so..

Sorry posted again..

Sorry posted again..

just had a look on BCG and remember its 60 days for pruning.

I checked members that hadnt been seen for 30 days or more.

3118 accounts

i then checked those "Under" Pu

2549 accounts

so about 600 PU and above have not signed in, but they do have another month to do so.

so its not that many PU and above that may loose their accounts anyway, and im sure that if you have made PU (4 weeks member, 25gig uploaded, 1.50 ratio) then you must think something about the site, and know the ins and outs.