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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:02 am 
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Hey - looks like I missed us going over 4k members! When it gets to 5k we should have a party :)


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I seriously wonder how much of the zero-posters in the memberlist are bots...

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add line: if ((poster == zero_posters) && (IsRegistered > (month))) delete poster;

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Someone(hint..) really should really create a script that intelligently removes bots or unused accounts.

Deleting an old account with 2 posts in several years? worst case* scenario is they have to sign up again... in a year.

EDIT: Fixed spelling mistakes... *sigh*

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I agree.
Shouldn't be too hard to sniff through the phpmyadmin->phpbb2 tables with a one-liner php script to find members with 0-2 posts in over a year.

I had this problem with my website a while ago and ended up abandoning the site because I hadn't thought of a good solution like that.

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Brynet-Inc wrote:
Deleting an old account with 2 posts in several years? worst cast scenario is they have to sign up again... in a year.


... then i would have had to create new accounts several times -- since i only posted a couple time the first several years i was here...

just because they dont post, doesnt mean they dont come here regularly

if someone had done that, i probably would have simply stopped coming and never returned...

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5k active members + me being able to program anything that has anything to do with an OS = I pay for the beers.

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I think pruning accounts with zero posts and which have not been used (logged in) over the past year would be a better option. That would filter only those accounts that have been as good as abandoned. (including bot accounts)

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yeah, PHPBB has a last active field too iirc

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Combuster wrote:
I seriously wonder how much of the zero-posters in the memberlist are bots...

At my site, I modified the phpbb registration script a little bit to add an additional require field.

Before this I had alot of spam bot problems. After the above small modification, I have not gotten a single spam bot.

Perhaps this forum can benefit from it?

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What you probably missed is that the registration has been bot-proofed already with some extra tricks, and since then I haven't seen bot accounts in the last registered user list. So basically we're dealing with the bot accounts from before that update.

But you are of course free to mail the admin :)

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