Autodelete account after x days without using authorization

[GooRoo]

code ... and six months without any posts.

In other words, cut down on inflated member count by eliminating accounts that have never been verified, or where the 'member' has never participated in anything.

I discovered a few years ago that part of the name of my Forum is also a slang term for pornography, so some accounts may be set up thinking that will give them access to the stuff.

Also, the Forum was targeted for a while by a SPAMmer seeming to tout kitchen wares.  Currently, the post(s) are deleted, the member account banned three ways, and the account deleted.  If staff forgets to deal thoroughly with these, this plug-in would provide a back-up method.

[Todge]

I'm afraid that that's not possible, and would be a TOS violation. Codes are not allowed to auto-direct, which would be the only way this could be done.

Sorry.

[GooRoo]

Jun 1, 2014 5:09:44 GMT -8 Todge said:

I'm afraid that that's not possible, and would be a TOS violation. Codes are not allowed to auto-direct, which would be the only way this could be done.

Sorry.

How can that possibly be a TOS violation?!?  Logically, such persons have never actually become members.  Merely visiting a Forum and creating a log-in ID without ever using the activation code does not constitute membership.  Not returning after activation for (say) six months to post ... indicating a real interest in the Forum ... also does not constitute membership.  I routinely (if sporadically) delete inactivated accounts and activated accounts without posts and without visits for six months.  Doing this automatically is nothing more than a labor-saving device.  I have enough ACTIVE members to satisfy me, even enough members who once were (very) active that I would never delete.  I have no interest in inflated membership counts due to one-time visitors, or SPAMmers who have discovered that the Forum is monitored from five widely dispersed areas of the world, and leave without deleting themselves.  This sort of thing deserves to be a feature ... but I would be content with it being a plug-in.

[Former Member]

I believe he's talking about AJAX requests. A plugin cannot act on something that is not user input, meaning the user has to be pushing buttons and manually doing stuff. It cannot automatically wait a certain period of time and then delete accounts entirely in the background and on its own. At least, that's my understanding.

[blc]

Jun 1, 2014 16:51:54 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

I believe he's talking about AJAX requests. A plugin cannot act on something that is not user input, meaning the user has to be pushing buttons and manually doing stuff. It cannot automatically wait a certain period of time and then delete accounts entirely in the background and on its own. At least, that's my understanding.

Thanks for explaining that.

[GooRoo]

Jun 1, 2014 16:51:54 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

I believe he's talking about AJAX requests. A plugin cannot act on something that is not user input, meaning the user has to be pushing buttons and manually doing stuff. It cannot automatically wait a certain period of time and then delete accounts entirely in the background and on its own. At least, that's my understanding.

That, at least, makes sense.  The TOS violation, on the other hand, made no sense at all.  So I am back to my sporadic monitoring of inactive accounts.  (Getting lazy in my old age. )

[blc]

Jun 2, 2014 13:50:30 GMT -8 GooRoo said:

Jun 1, 2014 16:51:54 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

I believe he's talking about AJAX requests. A plugin cannot act on something that is not user input, meaning the user has to be pushing buttons and manually doing stuff. It cannot automatically wait a certain period of time and then delete accounts entirely in the background and on its own. At least, that's my understanding.

That, at least, makes sense.  The TOS violation, on the other hand, made no sense at all.  So I am back to my sporadic monitoring of inactive accounts.  (Getting lazy in my old age. )

I have the same issue except I don't want to delete them, I just want them automatically disabled.

[Former Member]

I am not a plugin coder, so I really am not sure, but maybe if there was a way to do it without any automatic aspects. Like if you, as the admin, pushed a button that deactivated/deleted the inactive accounts so it wasn't automatic but it was easier because it'd still do it on a mass-basis. I, however, do not know if a plugin is even capable of administrative duties of that magnitude. So, again, it'd need to be an actual coder who responded about the feasibility

[Pebble]

Deleting members on mass can be achieved by going to the members page and then clicking on the 'last on line' column. You can then just go to the date you want, check the members below that date, and then delete them.

A plugin wouldn't be able to do this automatically. It has to be admin/staff that do it, but it's really not that difficult anyway to delete members that haven't logged in for a certain amount of time.

[GooRoo]

Jun 2, 2014 16:04:35 GMT -8 Pebble said:

Deleting members on mass can be achieved by going to the members page and then clicking on the 'last on line' column. You can then just go to the date you want, check the members below that date, and then delete them.

A plugin wouldn't be able to do this automatically. It has to be admin/staff that do it, but it's really not that difficult anyway to delete members that haven't logged in for a certain amount of time.

I don't delete member accounts simply because they haven't "logged in" in a certain amount of time ... but only those who never activated ... or never posted anything in six months (and have not visited in that amount of time).  Those people do not deserve to be called (and counted as) members.  So for over 200 accounts, paging through and viewing the 0 post accounts for age is rather time-consuming.  That's the reason I only do it sporadically.  And the reason I would like to see a plug-in, even one that I must trigger to take action, that could go through the member list and (at a minimum) display the possibly delete-able accounts.

[Wormopolis]

There isnt a way for a plugin to do this.

as for the TOS part above, its against the TOS to WRITE a code that would try to do this.