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Subject: Name changes + Site Cleanup: User profiles and dead groups

Roll the dice, try again.

So when the new site update launches, is there going to be something that goes through and cleans up all the dead groups and users that haven't signed in for over a year?

Would this free up many names for those of us interested in changing our usernames?

  • 05.02.2012 8:25 PM PDT

If the Superintendent was still around I would say yes, but he is long gone so no. This will not occur.

  • 05.02.2012 8:31 PM PDT

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A lot of things will change. They will more than likely put all previous titles in an "archive," while setting up new forums for their new IP. Overall...a lot of clean-up lol

  • 05.02.2012 8:33 PM PDT

I don't think we would get the choice to change our usernames either way...

  • 05.02.2012 8:49 PM PDT

What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?

  • 05.02.2012 9:15 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Posted by: dazarobbo
What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?


No unarchived threads.

  • 05.02.2012 9:21 PM PDT

Roll the dice, try again.


Posted by: dazarobbo
What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?

If the entire 1st page is all archived threads that have the "faded out" webmaster. Basically there would be no new posts in over a month - or whatever the limit to get those threads are.

  • 05.02.2012 9:21 PM PDT

That seems incredibly unfair to those who have taken a break from the site.

  • 05.02.2012 9:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: dazarobbo
That seems incredibly unfair to those who have taken a break from the site.

Especially during this 'dark period'.

  • 05.02.2012 9:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: dazarobbo
That seems incredibly unfair to those who have taken a break from the site.


It wouldn't be the first time this site has deleted old accounts. Presumably anyone who left that long ago should be aware of the fact that account deletion was a possibility for extended periods of inactivity.

[Edited on 05.02.2012 9:35 PM PDT]

  • 05.02.2012 9:35 PM PDT

Posted by: Cycle22
It wouldn't be the first time this site has deleted old accounts. Presumably anyone who left that long ago should be aware of the fact that account deletion was a possibility for extended periods of inactivity.
Actually I was referring to the posts made about groups just above.

Regardless, how do you determine what accounts should be deleted?

  • 05.02.2012 9:44 PM PDT
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I do think that something needs to be done about dead groups, but there are some groups out there that are still of value even though no one posts there.

For instance, the community I run originally started in a different group and has 400 pages of history with almost 200,000 posts in that group, and many of the members today go back and look at historic threads in there frequently. I also know of a few other carbon frozen groups like this that people would be very unhappy to lose.

Perhaps the solution is to delete dead groups that don't have a certain number of posts or pages?

  • 05.02.2012 9:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: dazarobbo
What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?

  • 05.02.2012 9:49 PM PDT

Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man
Posted by: dazarobbo
What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?

No unarchived threads.

So that group I made where no one posts isn't dead due to no archives? Jawsome.

  • 05.02.2012 9:49 PM PDT

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What about dormant groups, like CompoundIntelligence? How are you supposed to discern differences between dead groups?

  • 05.02.2012 10:46 PM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."

As far as I'm aware, data storage is getting cheaper and cheaper by the hour and it's not exactly like the groups are getting more spacious. I'm sure that clean up will be needed sooner or later, but unless some vital function of bungie.net is running on an unmodified bubble sort, I don't think it's worth the risk of deleting accounts of people that might just be taking a break so that a few kilobytes or so of data can be cleared up.

[Edited on 05.02.2012 11:01 PM PDT]

  • 05.02.2012 10:54 PM PDT

Posted by: homocidalham
As far as I'm aware, data storage is getting cheaper and cheaper by the hour and it's not exactly like the groups are getting more spacious. While I'm sure that clean up will be needed sooner or later, but unless some vital function of bungie.net is running on an unmodified bubble sort, I don't think it's worth the risk of deleting accounts of people that might just be taking a break so that a few kilobytes or so of data can be cleared up.
The web team has repeatedly said that the B.net servers will never run out of space. That I have seen and am certain of. Melting from so many connections at once though, that happens to everybody.

  • 05.02.2012 10:58 PM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."


Posted by: Luke35120
The web team has repeatedly said that the B.net servers will never run out of space. That I have seen and am certain of. Melting from so many connections at once though, that happens to everybody.


I didn't say clean up was needed to preserve space. Rather, I meant it more in terms of the need to free up names. Sure, there are billions of possible character combinations that could theoretically be used, but I'm sure that there are several names that people might want to use, but can't because someone who logged on once just so happened to think of that name a few years prior.

Id est, I was actually agreeing with what the OP said, but I don't think it needs to be done just yet.

[Edited on 05.02.2012 11:08 PM PDT]

  • 05.02.2012 11:06 PM PDT
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I would like to see something like this happen. Ever since account deletion stopped, there has been several names that have been taken by users that have not signed in since they made their account. I would love to see those names become free to use again. I'm not sure about private groups though, it could possibly work in a similar way that account deletion used to work in, like say one year without any threads/posts made in the group it would be liable for deletion or something along those lines.

  • 05.02.2012 11:07 PM PDT
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I have returned from the Untamed Lands. MOAP is dead.

My dead groups are fun to read. Especially the ones that haven't been touched since 2006. They're like time machines, except they don't take you anywhere cool.

  • 05.02.2012 11:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: Cycle22
It wouldn't be the first time this site has deleted old accounts. Presumably anyone who left that long ago should be aware of the fact that account deletion was a possibility for extended periods of inactivity.
Actually I was referring to the posts made about groups just above.

Regardless, how do you determine what accounts should be deleted?
Well, what determined the deletion of the older accounts long ago?

  • 05.02.2012 11:13 PM PDT
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:)


Posted by: Rainbow A Dash

Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: Cycle22
It wouldn't be the first time this site has deleted old accounts. Presumably anyone who left that long ago should be aware of the fact that account deletion was a possibility for extended periods of inactivity.
Actually I was referring to the posts made about groups just above.

Regardless, how do you determine what accounts should be deleted?
Well, what determined the deletion of the older accounts long ago?

I think it was a year of inactivity.

  • 05.02.2012 11:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: jross1993

Posted by: Rainbow A Dash

Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: Cycle22
It wouldn't be the first time this site has deleted old accounts. Presumably anyone who left that long ago should be aware of the fact that account deletion was a possibility for extended periods of inactivity.
Actually I was referring to the posts made about groups just above.

Regardless, how do you determine what accounts should be deleted?
Well, what determined the deletion of the older accounts long ago?

I think it was a year of inactivity.
But the old system is irrelevant, because people clearly didn't like it. What's the point of going through old threads if you can't even tell who the -blam!- wrote anything in it?

And you always hear stories about people who are on to their second account due to the deletion of their old one. Re-implementing the old system would only make people upset.

  • 05.03.2012 3:44 AM PDT

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." -Johnny Cash

No one besides the web team (and maybe a few others) know what the new site update contains, but those features would be good to have.

[Edited on 05.03.2012 5:19 AM PDT]

  • 05.03.2012 5:18 AM PDT


Posted by: dazarobbo
What exactly constitutes a "dead" group?


A group with three members that hasn't been active for years.

  • 05.03.2012 5:23 AM PDT

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