- prometheus25
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"
Posted by: Demerzel
Posted by: prometheus25
If you want to hear about unnecessary server space waste, let me tell you about the stupidly long 6-month automatic account deletion concept. Why wait 6 months for an inactive account to get automatically deleted? Sure, some people do leave and come back, but how many people who would lose their accounts would be irritated enough to warrant waiting six months to "make sure" they are inactive. If someone cares enough about their account, I'm quite sure they have friends who can periodically sign on to preserve their account.
Last I heard, it was actually a year before an inactive gets purged, but you'd think that that would be a pretty long time to store those accounts. Six months seems a reasonable time -- it's actually a pretty long period, and you'd think that somebody would manage to find a few seconds to sign into that account during that period if they were really serious about preserving it.
Six months for an account to be deleted, another six months for the name to be recycled into the account name pool.
And you're, right: anyone serious about preserving their account, with a rare exception or two, would take a few seconds to sign in during that period.
Posted by: BMW
Posted by: Sexbox
Are you joking? 6 months is fine, what do you suggest? A month? That's unreasonable.
True, me along with about 1 million people would've been gone if that was so.
Sexbox:
1. I'm not telling a joke.
2. I did not "suggest", or imply for that matter, one month. Two or three seems reasonable enough for me. If someone can't login at least six times a year, then why bother keeping their account?
BMW:
Bungie.net just reached one million members a few months ago. Don't over-exaggerate things.
Posted by: JesusismyHomey
I just don't see a reason for it. We already have the PM system. Why do you need to have comments publicized?
I believe many people here would love to talk about themselves more, but the ten-lin allotment in a member's signature doesn't suffice. A personal bio or such would allow users like BerserkerBarage to tell people about what WebcamMVP is and why he got it. It'd let moderators share that asking them about Recon armor or asking how to become a moderator does not work. It would also allow people like Foman to make every possible use of any character limit available. Finally, it'd also allow everyday members have a place to organize favorite game content, rather than having pieces scattered around the website.
Bungie.net started out as the virtual home for Bungie Studios, but it developed into the central hub for various games, such as the Marathon series, Pathways into Darkness, and the Halo series. It's a community website now, and communities are about knowing and interacting with those people around you. I don't want to hear about someone's awesome "no-scope" while browsing the Halo 3 forum, I don't want to hear about someone's love life when I search through the Septagon, and I don't want to waste my time locking a thread about someone's distaste for the way I moderate CI. Those things can easily be placed in a member's bio, where it doesn't impede on my, and everyone else's, enjoyment of the rest of the site.