(05-06-2011 5:32 PM)mark-in-dallas Wrote:  For anyone that's been paying attention to the number of members we have, you'll notice that our membership is now substantially smaller.

The reason for this is that I went through the Unactivated Accounts and purged all members who had registered more than 90 days ago, but had never activated their accounts or logged back into the forum in the last 30 days.

I also went through the registered members and deleted all accounts that had activated their accounts but had not logged into the forum at all this year and had a post count of 0.

I don't know about you folks but I don't feel that having numbers just to have numbers means anything. I'd rather reflect a true count of our REAL membership: those that are active, or are visiting the forum on at least a semi-regular basis.

In this run 182 accounts were deleted, which makes for a total of around 500 inactive accounts that have now been deleted since the forum was started in August 2009.

We may not have 25,000 members like the other PT, but of those there's probably only 50 to 100 over there that are active on a regular basis anyway. Of our 293 members right now, all are currently active and just over 76% have posted.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of the members had only registered to get the discount coupons when we were offering them anyway. There were probably 100 registrations that had not been back since the day they did register, and then spent only 5 or 10 minutes on the forum. A number of others had registered and hung around for several months, but then just disappeared.