Delete users?

If someone registers on your forum and don't post do you delete their account? And if a old member that posts hasn't been on in awhile do you delete their account?

 

No I find it silly to delete members due to 0 posts. Only members I delete are ones that request it,spam bots,or real bad members..

 

I never delete users i find it unnecessary and a waste of time

 

I say I will but I never get round to it, lol.

 

I don't like deleting users much since it lowers my forum's member count.

 

There's codes/add ons to make a forum member count look higher than it is.

 

Yes, I do sometimes.

I do it to keep my stats realistic, in and in proportion to the posts. I do this because is the ratio of members to posts is say 3:2 then it will look as though the admin made a bunch of fake accounts, or has a lot of bots registered.

I send out emails throughout the course of the year, and 1 or 2 will come back and lurk, while the others do not. I wait for about a month, and check my forums; email addresses to see if anyone has had trouble logging in etc.. and if I don't see anything, then I take that as the green light to delete the accounts.

I figure that if they wanted to be there then they would have posted, and if they didn't have the time, then they will come back when they do.

 

I don't delete my members. I have before and all it did was make some active members mad saying that it was making our activity look worse.

 

if a person finds out your using that kind of code you risk losing respect for your forum which leads to losing members.

 

I've seen that happen on one of the forums I was a member at..

 

yes but people will know when they cant find posts of the fake members

 

Yeah, and if a member realizes that they've been tricked I'm pretty sure they'd be pretty ticked off.

 

and then leave your forum and post bad things if they ever seen a topic about it. Not a good thing to ever fake stuff with forums.

 

We have a plugin installed for inactive user at a certain period of time, after that time they get deleted.

 

I delete members that have not posted or logged on within one-two months, because having a lot of members, but not so many posts, as Black Angel said, makes it look like the admin created fake accounts.

 

I never deleted any user. I even don't delete a spammer's account. I left it as it is. people might think it's a fake account; I say let them think what they want. I don't know why I dislike deleting account that much. ^^"