Why were all members with a 0 post count deleted

[Sleeps w/Butterflies]

[quote=Winston Smith]

CHRIS HANSEN IS GONE!?!?!?!?!? Let me tell you something, MISTER MCNUTTY, you haven't SEEN dramatical yet. MARK.MY.WORDS.

DIAF,
Sleeps

Please clarify: Should it just be McNutty that dies in a fire, or should the fire include CRSP and What Exit?, too?[/quote:2vgp8qdh]

McNutty. M to the C to the Nutty. MCNUTTY!

I suggest you be glad I don't turn my rage at YOU. Back away.

[zuma]

I signed up here back in March mainly to park my username, occasionally lurk, and never posted at all up until a week or two ago (I am an infrequent poster everywhere). Sounds like I just missed the purge.

If I'd tried to log in and noticed my account had been deleted, I'd assume it was maybe intentional for some silly reason or another, and I'm quite positive I'd not bother signing up again. I'd certainly remember signing up.

I only mention this in case you want the perspective of someone from the "unlikely" scenario of signing up and returning weeks or months later.

[Duck Quack's Echo]

I wonder, is this going to happen again? If so, would it be possible to announce ahead of a purge the criteria that will be used to determine who is to be purged? In that way we can make the decision to avoid the purge if that is our desire.

[Sarahfeena]

If you have a record of the purged names, it might not be a bad idea to look for the ones who are SDMB members, and for CRSP to e-mail them to apologize and invite them back.

[Glazer]

Wow. Miss a day miss a lot!

[What Exit?]

I signed up here back in March mainly to park my username, occasionally lurk, and never posted at all up until a week or two ago (I am an infrequent poster everywhere). Sounds like I just missed the purge.

If I'd tried to log in and noticed my account had been deleted, I'd assume it was maybe intentional for some silly reason or another, and I'm quite positive I'd not bother signing up again. I'd certainly remember signing up.

I only mention this in case you want the perspective of someone from the "unlikely" scenario of signing up and returning weeks or months later.

Good point zuma, I don't think this exercise will be repeated.

I wonder, is this going to happen again? If so, would it be possible to announce ahead of a purge the criteria that will be used to determine who is to be purged? In that way we can make the decision to avoid the purge if that is our desire.

If we do it again, we'll discuss it first and post the exact criteria. It will be based on no post and no board activity for some long amount of time. I suspect we will not be doing it again.

If you have a record of the purged names, it might not be a bad idea to look for the ones who are SDMB members, and for CRSP to e-mail them to apologize and invite them back.

That can be tough, we lost the Emails too unless McNutty has a magic SQL trick to pull the usernames and Email addresses from a backup. But it is a good idea and I am willing to do the Email work. I might ask for volunteers to divide the work. I'll PM this to McNutty.

[Heffalump]

One important thing that I think needs to be examined is th..........

Not that important, then?

Nah. That's how all his important points end. . . .

[Gfactor]

Well, maybe I was wrong to disagree. With the new troll-free atmosphere, we've been graced by the presence of SDMB favorites like Gfactor, OpalCat, and Ed Zotti . . .

Gfactor is probably real. He was lurking here before.

Yep. It's me. Of course this proves nothing.

[OneCentStamp]

Wow. Miss a day miss a lot!

Seriously. And I keep missing them! I was away for the April Fools' Day Mess, the Bibliocat Sock Outing, and most of this, the Great Lurker Purge. I swear, we are piling up trainwrecks faster than the old board ever did! :smile:

[Borborygmi]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!



I'm kidding, of course... I hope that's obvious...

[What Exit?]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!



I'm kidding, of course... I hope that's obvious...

What is July 20th?

[Borborygmi]

I'm not being serious, in this mock heads-up to OneCentStamp. July 20th is just a random upcoming date. I know of no upcoming scheduled board controversies!

[What Exit?]

I'm not being serious, in this mock heads-up to OneCentStamp. July 20th is just a random upcoming date. I know of no upcoming scheduled board controversies!

Oops sorry. I think I just whooshed myself again.

[Borborygmi]

Well, it would have been clearer if I had quoted the previous post. And, switching to being serious, my sympathies regarding the current kurfuffle; it'll blow over.

[the Lady]

I signed up here back in March mainly to park my username, occasionally lurk, and never posted at all up until a week or two ago (I am an infrequent poster everywhere). Sounds like I just missed the purge.

If I'd tried to log in and noticed my account had been deleted, I'd assume it was maybe intentional for some silly reason or another, and I'm quite positive I'd not bother signing up again. I'd certainly remember signing up.

I only mention this in case you want the perspective of someone from the "unlikely" scenario of signing up and returning weeks or months later.

Just thought I'd add my "me too!"
If I hadn't been so darn curious about Featherlou and Jimbo's new house, I'd have been gone as well.
I lurk near every day, but don't have much to say.

[WhyNot]

Wow. Miss a day miss a lot!

Seriously. And I keep missing them! I was away for the April Fools' Day Mess, the Bibliocat Sock Outing, and most of this, the Great Lurker Purge. I swear, we are piling up trainwrecks faster than the old board ever did! :smile:

Me too!

The thing is, we're a very small town with one train track running right through Main Street. So the slightest delay for maintenance makes us all sit up and take notice. Other larger boards may have just as many trainwrecks, but with a zillion alternate routes, you don't have to sit there tapping your foot on the brake wondering if you should just put the damn car in park already.

Wait, I think my analogy derailed a bit there...what was I talking about?

[Idle Thoughts]

I guess I should consider myself lucky. I have fewer posts than some deleted. :x

But like others have said, I do check in from time to time, make a post or two, and read many topics.

[What Exit?]

I guess I should consider myself lucky. I have fewer posts than some deleted. :x

But like others have said, I do check in from time to time, make a post or two, and read many topics.

Just to clarify, no one with more than 1 post got deleted

[Idle Thoughts]

Hm? McNutty just posted a list of people who had over 1 post, didn't he? Earlier in this topic? Or was that a list of something else?

Then I guess I'm grateful I made more than one post, haha.

[NAF1138]

Hm? McNutty just posted a list of people who had over 1 post, didn't he? Earlier in this topic? Or was that a list of something else?

Then I guess I'm grateful I made more than one post, haha.

That was a list of how often they posted in Chat. So it's different.

[What Exit?]

Oh, I see, that was chat posts. The boards pruning software does not even know about chat posts. Only thread posts.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3833#p87670

[Idle Thoughts]

Ohhhhh, I gotcha. Thanks for clearing it up. Makes sense.

[featherlou]

The Great Lurker Purge - I like that. It scans very well.

[Glazer]

[quote-"WhyNot"]Wait, I think my analogy derailed a bit there...what was I talking about?[/quote]

I think you said something about you and me go parking sometime.

[Rocyn]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!

You're having a surprise party for my birthday?!?!? I didn't know you all cared. *sniff*

I can't believe I reregistered for that. As to the controversy, as someone who was affected I say meh. But I would not have signed on again if not for the mention of my birthday.

[Kat]

Hey! That was supposed to be a surprise! Hence the designation "surprise party". Rocyn, come here. I have to hit you on the head with a mallet and induce amnesia, so you forget that you already know about the party.

[featherlou]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!

You're having a surprise party for my birthday?!?!? I didn't know you all cared. *sniff*

I can't believe I reregistered for that. As to the controversy, as someone who was affected I say meh. But I would not have signed on again if not for the mention of my birthday.

Okay, THAT'S our new plan - mention every day of the year and get all the deleted lurkers back in here.

August 1st.

[Glazer]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!

You're having a surprise party for my birthday?!?!? I didn't know you all cared. *sniff*

I can't believe I reregistered for that. As to the controversy, as someone who was affected I say meh. But I would not have signed on again if not for the mention of my birthday.

Happy happy, merry merry.
Welcome back kick up your feet post awile.

[What Exit?]

Dude, don't let this happen again... make sure you are here on July 20!

You're having a surprise party for my birthday?!?!? I didn't know you all cared. *sniff*

I can't believe I reregistered for that. As to the controversy, as someone who was affected I say meh. But I would not have signed on again if not for the mention of my birthday.

Welcome back!

[goatse spam]

Did I really scare you that bad?

[goatse spam]

Why not something like this?

Your account at Domebo.net no longer exists. We massively overreacted to a nonexistent threat that was posted at snarkpit.deadjournal.com and deleted every single account with fewer than two posts. It was really silly of us to do that and it's a virtual certainty that you weren't doing anything wrong. Please accept our apology. You are free to register again with the same email address and user name as before. In the unlikely event that someone else took your old user name in the mean time, we apologize again but you can simply choose a new one.

[Kat]

Naw, if you're going to go that route, stick with

Greetings, [username],

Sorry we suck so much.

-The Management

It's shorter.

[What Exit?]

Why not something like this?

Your account at Domebo.net no longer exists. We massively overreacted to a nonexistent threat that was posted at snarkpit.deadjournal.com and deleted every single account with fewer than two posts. It was really silly of us to do that and it's a virtual certainty that you weren't doing anything wrong. Please accept our apology. You are free to register again with the same email address and user name as before. In the unlikely event that someone else took your old user name in the mean time, we apologize again but you can simply choose a new one.

You give yourself too much credit. That was to the best of my knowledge not the reason this was brought up.

[goatse spam]

You give yourself too much credit. That was to the best of my knowledge not the reason this was brought up.

Actually, I didn't make that post on the snarkpit. I just named myself after it with this new user name as my old one was deleted.

No one has every said why it was done. Jim and CRSP had some frantic discussions and decided that this had to be done right away without any input from the rest of the staff. If it wasn't to stop something immediate, why didn't they wait?

To free up user names? Bull. The Dope has like 85,000 usernames and other message boards have hundreds of thousands yet people still sign up for them.

So that socks can't influence elections? Just put a 30 post limit on elections like you did with image posting. (Aside: That's lame too because someone spam bombed you the very night of the massacre.) There wasn't an election planned anyhow.

What we haven't seen yet is a coherent explanation as to why it was done. I may be slow but the only think I can think of is that y'all were trolled by a snarker.

Even if Jim had done what CRSP claims he really wanted, what was the original purpose of eliminating accounts with no posts that were 90 days old or whatever it was?

ETA: That was weird. When I first replied, that post was made by "admin". Now it's by "What Exit". No biggie but I thought I was replying to someone else.

[What Exit?]

I'll leave the full explanation up to CRSP. It is not my place to disclose the PMs. Sorry about the admin bit. That was me and I fixed it. I was helping out two of the members that I pruned when I posted. The rest of this belongs in another thread though. In fact I'll move it shortly.

[modhat:2i1k7jhk]Moved 5 posts starting with GoatseSpam's from the apology leter thread to this one.[/modhat:2i1k7jhk]

[Rocyn]

Hey! That was supposed to be a surprise! Hence the designation "surprise party". Rocyn, come here. I have to hit you on the head with a mallet and induce amnesia, so you forget that you already know about the party.

No worries, I'll just slide down to Moe's and have a forget-me-shot. Of course this could result in me killing my wife or forgetting about the board totally.

And thanks everyone for the welcome.