I made $12,000 on $146,000 volume in my 4th month by showing

Keep running on the spot inside your little wheel Spamster- but go away!

Banned user from logging in (or ever seeing the site again mind you - I blocked their IP), deleted the sales-pitch. Made a note on their user-page http//ad-rag.com/~wholefoodplankton.com



Usually I just delete their messages/posts too but since I was away yesterday y*all had time to comment! wink

Hehehe.

I usually just block the account from ever being entered again and ban the IP they log from, leaving their user page up as a note of the reason for ban, like this obobo05 - but now that it*s getting to happen more and more often I*m seriously considering cleaning out dead user accounts.



I mean, 68626 registered users is a nice huge number to throw around when people ask how big the site is, but honestly only 25k of those users are truly active.



Deleting dud accounts would have the advantage of freeing up common names, so if "john" was a dud account, and so was "john1" and "john2" finally a john could be a john around here. wink



Since 2003 there*s been a check if the account was ever logged into - but sometimes I See really old users suddenly log back in again and comment so I don*t want to risk throwing out someone who signed up in 2000 just because I fancy a little spring cleaning in the database. Maybe I could check all the emails and if the email is a dud I delete the account (because then they can*t have gotten their password, or ever logged in). Then again, some people log in and change their emails to duds. (Idiots! Arrgh!).



Tough call, what to do... The norm of websites is usually to not delete a created account. It*s the least work intensive solution. wink



Yeah, that*ll have to do. *raises coffeeemug to toast to that*

I know, I talk too much.



Figure I should start doing that in the forums so people know i actually do stuff around here. wink



I mean, besides hanging around bein* purdy. *poses*

See here*s another one I just banned a minute ago http//ad-rag.com/~larryrooney



I s*pose it*s some sort of a compliment that getting spam in this forum here is so attractive they even bother to sign up?



Feck knows. I*m really tempted in cleaning out the user-listings and deleting clear duds (users that have no special avatar and that have not logged in and who*s email bounces as a criteria). It would free up LOTS of usernames.



What do y*all think? Should I bother when other sites don*t?



Jeez I can*t make up my mind apparantly. wink

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Dabitch wrote See here*s another one I just banned a minute ago http//ad-rag.com/~larryrooney

"Oslo Russia"?

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Dabitch wrote I s*pose it*s some sort of a compliment that getting spam in this forum here is so attractive they even bother to sign up?

Well, it*s some sort of something, that*s for sure. It didn*t take long for the Internet to turn into the Idiotnet, did it?

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Dabitch wrote What do y*all think? Should I bother when other sites don*t?

I would set a reasonable time limit, say one year, and if there has been no activity on the account (no log in) I would send an email and inform the account holder that the account is under review for deletion due to a lack of log in activity in the past year. I would give the account holder 30 days to respond. If no reply is received within 30 days, or if the email address is not valid, I would delete the account and give the resource to someone who will use it. I would delete all accounts that have had no log in activity for more than one year without giving it any thought. That*s my $0.02.





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The Art of Magic is said to be the world*s third oldest profession; the second is said to be advertising.

Ha Ha ....... nice one!

Seriously though John, you*re a seriously disturbed individual with a cyber-gender crisis going on, and you really need to cut back on the Guinness !



- just kidding, and BTW, you really made me smile smile