Massive Purge of Useless Inactive Users

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-01-18 01:21pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Why kill them out right and instead set up a Roman Colosseum and we have some blood sport? After all, Lions chasing fools round has always been great natural selection on an accelerator pad.

Because the Lions suck.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-01-18 02:36pm

Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-01-18 03:08pm

RogueIce wrote:Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.

I think it's at most a hundred, really. The other 900 were spambots.

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2007-01-18 03:27pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
RogueIce wrote:Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.
I think it's at most a hundred, really. The other 900 were spambots.

All the more reason not to take them along...

Darth Holbytlan · Post by **Darth Holbytlan** » 2007-01-18 03:53pm

Wyrm wrote:What about users who were never activated in the first place? My brother recently e-mailed me about this, and he was concerned.

It turned out to be rather convenient. If you strike me down, I will become...well...slightly less impotent than before.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2007-01-18 03:54pm

Darth Servo wrote:
J wrote:
Stark wrote:Is this like the other purges, ie users with zero posts?
Yup, and also the users on the Secret Ban List.
How come I didn't know about this "Secret Ban List"?

There is no Secret Ban List.

*writes down Darth Servo*

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-01-18 03:58pm

Beowulf wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:
J wrote: Yup, and also the users on the Secret Ban List.
How come I didn't know about this "Secret Ban List"?
There is no Secret Ban List.

*writes down Darth Servo*

Secret Ban List? That's the stupidest conspiracy theory I've ever heard of!

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2007-01-18 06:24pm

Ironic... SDN does this when I have to do it on my fourm.. Irony meter is overloading here

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2007-01-18 07:19pm

Now that's odd. I had just looked through the member list and saw the thousand inactive members (Which went all the way back to May 2005) yesterday, and voila, they're all deleted. Weird.

Velthuijsen · Post by **Velthuijsen** » 2007-01-18 07:29pm

I'm glad I'm only useless and not inactive useless

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-01-18 09:48pm

The Spartan wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
RogueIce wrote:Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.
I think it's at most a hundred, really. The other 900 were spambots.
All the more reason not to take them along...

But we need mindless workers who do nothing but one thing all day long!

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2007-01-18 10:34pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
RogueIce wrote:Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.
I think it's at most a hundred, really. The other 900 were spambots.

Almost 1500users have less then 50 posts.

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2007-01-18 10:45pm

Dominus Atheos wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
RogueIce wrote:Now we have about a thousand fewer people to worry about on our medieval trip.
I think it's at most a hundred, really. The other 900 were spambots.
Almost 1500users have less then 50 posts.

Cough... was this a regularly scheduled culling, or does this sky fairy mentioned in the going medieval thread been talking to somebody?

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-01-18 10:58pm

Well, didn't they *used* to be regularly scheduled?

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2007-01-19 12:43am

Hawkwings wrote:Well, didn't they *used* to be regularly scheduled?

Whoops!

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2007-01-19 01:08am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Beowulf wrote:
Darth Servo wrote: How come I didn't know about this "Secret Ban List"?
There is no Secret Ban List.

*writes down Darth Servo*
Secret Ban List? That's the stupidest conspiracy theory I've ever heard of!

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The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2007-01-19 08:05am

General Schatten wrote:But we need mindless workers who do nothing but one thing all day long!

Well, I suppose we could have taken one along as a town crier. But who wants to hear about Viagra all day when it won't be invented for another 1300 years?

glass · Post by **glass** » 2007-01-19 11:44am

Hawkwings wrote:Or we could, y'know, just loot the bodies. I mean *someone* has got to have gold filings in their teeth, even if they don't have anything else!

Kill them and take their stuff! Suddenly I am back at ENworld.

glass.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2007-01-19 01:46pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Why kill them out right and instead set up a Roman Colosseum and we have some blood sport? After all, Lions chasing fools round has always been great natural selection on an accelerator pad.
We do that with people from 2005-2006.

So in order to nail all the spambots with Email accounts, we had to resort to the gas-chambers? Was this a workcamp death chamber where they were first drained of any useful labor left in their bodies, or a extermination camp death chamber where we just shove them in and pull them out as fast as we can.

Either way, I'm not complaining. I've already got the furnace set up to melt the gold teeth and separate the mercury. We'll do the silver after that. Since they were killed by poision, we can't sell the organs on the black market. But we can probably use them as a fertilizer or sell them to a university for disections.

Steven Snyder · Post by **Steven Snyder** » 2007-01-19 04:20pm

Wow, I survived the purge.

I was getting worried for a moment there.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-01-19 04:22pm

Steven Snyder wrote:Wow, I survived the purge.

I was getting worried for a moment there.

Steven Snyder · Post by **Steven Snyder** » 2007-01-19 04:31pm

I have had a low post count for how long I have been a member Soontir, and my internet connection these days is screwed up enough to make posting 'iffy' at best so I haven't posted in quite a long time...I am actually surprised it's working right now.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2007-01-19 04:37pm

Steven Snyder wrote:I have had a low post count for how long I have been a member Soontir, and my internet connection these days is screwed up enough to make posting 'iffy' at best so I haven't posted in quite a long time...I am actually surprised it's working right now.

Unless this is some new type of purge, they only delete zero post accounts.

You've made a post, you're safe.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-01-19 05:16pm

Sometimes I do wonder if Mike should delete someone who only made one or two posts over a year ago and hasn't been heard from since.

Specialist · Post by **Specialist** » 2007-01-23 02:34am

Steven Snyder wrote:I have had a low post count for how long I have been a member Soontir, and my internet connection these days is screwed up enough to make posting 'iffy' at best so I haven't posted in quite a long time...I am actually surprised it's working right now.

You think that's a low post count