Whoa! What happened to TTC's members?!

[Evil Kid John]

They said they never delete accounts they said that

[-rcv-]

Originally Posted by Evil Kid John

They said they never delete accounts they said that

There are accounts, and then there are Accounts.

Some people register, but then they never respond to the confirmation email for whatever reason.

Since they never confirmed, they were never able to post or anything. Deleting those registrations frees up the usernames for others, and it reduces the side of the user database which doesn't hurt.

Those are the "accounts" that we feed to EKB. There has probably been close to 100,000 deletions like that since this site began.

There was a handful of active accounts that were deleted over the years. It tends to cause problems when we do that, since you can wind up with goofy stuff like the "names you can't click on anymore", and worse. That's why we do not delete active accounts anymore.

-rcv-

[Big Flip]

Oh.

Thanks, -rcv-!

And, EKB really needs to hold off on the members for a little while...