MyE28 board cleanup?

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » May 31, 2012 4:53 PM

I'm curious how many registered users we have that have never posted?

How many do we have that have never logged in?

How many have 0 posts & have never logged in?

As a clean-up initiative perhaps we give the ax to some of these accounts? If they have logged in & have 0 posts, perhaps set the limit at a couple years of inactivity & less than 2 posts?

I was just brainstorming a bit & thought I'd contribute my idea to the board. Thoughts?

Post by **Jeremy** » May 31, 2012 5:04 PM

The thought has crossed my mind, but I don't see what purpose it would serve. Is there a particular handle you have your eye on that's already been claimed?

jhall · Post by **jhall** » May 31, 2012 5:04 PM

Edit: Jeremy beat me to it.

Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » May 31, 2012 7:06 PM

I'm not sure how long he had been a member, but a guy with zero posts bought my car, PM'd me and it went from there. Never made a post as far as I can tell, except that PM. Actually he contacted me some time later wanting info about the rear window shade, maybe 8 months or a year later. So no posts doesn't necessarly mean no use of Mye28.

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » May 31, 2012 10:28 PM

Jeremy wrote:The thought has crossed my mind, but I don't see what purpose it would serve. Is there a particular handle you have your eye on that's already been claimed?

Err... No!

I think it would serve as cleanup to help maintain the integrity of the board in addition to cutting down on the pages & pages members you page through when looking for someone.

ps. thanks for moving thread, wasn't sure where to put it

Mike W. wrote:So no posts doesn't necessarly mean no use of Mye28.

True dat! I'd be that person logged in at least a couple of times & possibly even subscribed to a thread or do despite not contributing. So that would be a valid member in my eyes. OTOH someone (or some Bot) that just created a username that has lain dormant for quite sometime just hogs up space.

It may be a bit labor intensive to do this on a regular basis, so perhaps only do it once a year or during scheduled board maintenance.

slimdevil27 · Post by **slimdevil27** » Jun 01, 2012 9:45 AM

Nebraska_e28 wrote: It may be a bit labor intensive to do this on a regular basis, so perhaps only do it once a year or during scheduled board maintenance.

Thanks for volunteering, and while we have no idea what you are talking about, we appreciate your enthusiasm.

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » Jun 01, 2012 10:19 AM

slimdevil27 wrote:
Nebraska_e28 wrote: It may be a bit labor intensive to do this on a regular basis, so perhaps only do it once a year or during scheduled board maintenance.
Thanks for volunteering, and while we have no idea what you are talking about, we appreciate your enthusiasm.

I'd be game if I had the juice. I'm pretty sure the admin console will report on more user statistics than one can shake a stick at.

Post by **Jeremy** » Jun 01, 2012 10:47 AM

Wait ... we have scheduled board maintenance?? Why didn't anyone tell me!!

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » Jun 01, 2012 10:52 AM

Jeremy wrote:Wait ... we have scheduled board maintenance?? Why didn't anyone tell me!!

oopsie! My I.T. work culture got the best of me. Guess it's safe to assume that upgrades/changes are kept to a minimum hence a less labor intensive board? If it aint broke dont fix it perhaps.

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Jun 01, 2012 11:55 AM

Instead of worrying about all the members that one needs to get through to find someone (a letter selection or something would make this a lot easier), board clean up could be accomplished by GETTING RID OF ALL THE EFFING STICKIES!!!!!

m535is · Post by **m535is** » Jun 01, 2012 12:15 PM

I agree...the stickies have gotten a bit out of control. The fact that I have to scroll down a page before I get to non-stickied posts is annoying. I thought the whole point of the Tech FAQ section was to be able to take things that were stickied and place them there so the could be held for easy reference but not crowd the Tech section. The only downside is this only works I guess for the Tech Section.
Maybe there could be a sub-folder for Stickies per section? This folder would remain at the top and all Stickies would then go in the sub-folders and therefore keep their links to the different forums, but not take up so much of the daily usage space.

As far as cleaning names out of the list, I think more search options would be able to accomplish the same task.

Just thoughts, and obviously Jeremy you know I will help any way I can if you need it.

Post by **Jeremy** » Jun 01, 2012 2:19 PM

Blue Shadow wrote:GETTING RID OF ALL THE EFFING STICKIES!!!!!

Yea, good point. I PMed all the people with stickies about polishing them off earlier this year. I don't like FAQ posts with long strings of coversation that follow. It needs to be one, condensed, easily digestible post with the info all in one place. Those that have refused to "finish" their writeups might get their posts unstickied to live in the archives instead of moving to the FAQ forum.

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » Jun 01, 2012 2:24 PM

Jeremy wrote:

Yea, good point. I PMed all the people with stickies about polishing them off earlier this year. I don't like FAQ posts with long strings of coversation that follow. It needs to be one, condensed, easily digestible post with the info all in one place. Those that have refused to "finish" their writeups might get their posts unstickied to live in the archives instead of moving to the FAQ forum.

Are you mainly referring to writeups that are incomplete or ones that just need a little buff & shine?

Post by **Jeremy** » Jun 01, 2012 2:59 PM

Nebraska_e28 wrote:
Jeremy wrote:

Yea, good point. I PMed all the people with stickies about polishing them off earlier this year. I don't like FAQ posts with long strings of coversation that follow. It needs to be one, condensed, easily digestible post with the info all in one place. Those that have refused to "finish" their writeups might get their posts unstickied to live in the archives instead of moving to the FAQ forum.
Are you mainly referring to writeups that are incomplete or ones that just need a little buff & shine?

Both. Some were complete or very near complete. Chris's "how to raise and support" FAQ has been waiting on pictures for ... a few years.

A few got moved just now, hopefully more will get finished and moved by the end of today.

m535is · Post by **m535is** » Jun 01, 2012 6:43 PM

Any thoughts on how to handle sticky clean up

on the other pages?

Post by **Nebraska_e28** » Jun 01, 2012 6:50 PM

m535is wrote:Any thoughts on how to handle sticky clean up on the other pages?

Add a locked 'sticky' subforum for reference only once we've approved a sticky is complete?

Post by **Jeremy** » Jun 01, 2012 7:27 PM

m535is wrote:Any thoughts on how to handle sticky clean up on the other pages?

There really aren't that many. General Conversation stickies are for upcoming e28-related events, so they're self limiting. Once the event date passes, they get un-stickied. The other forums have threads stuck by request of membership. There's not much I can do about those unless the information they contain gets deemed not worthy of being at the top for some reason.

wkohler · Post by **wkohler** » Jun 01, 2012 7:36 PM

Well, The Vintage and RTT are over, so...

Post by **Jeremy** » Jun 01, 2012 7:42 PM

Alright, so it's actually more like 5-10 days after the event passes. Typically I give it a week for AARs to show up. I shouldn't have implied that it was immediate.

m535is · Post by **m535is** » Jun 02, 2012 3:16 AM

Nebraska_e28 wrote:
m535is wrote:Any thoughts on how to handle sticky clean up on the other pages?
Add a locked 'sticky' subforum for reference only once we've approved a sticky is complete?

I like this idea, or a locked sticky subforum in each forum.

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Jun 05, 2012 9:45 PM

Almost time to sticky another event.

shagrath · Post by **shagrath** » Jun 07, 2012 1:52 PM

Yay my write-up is a FAQ!

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Jun 07, 2012 9:13 PM

shagrath wrote:Yay my write-up is a FAQ!

wkohler · Post by **wkohler** » Jun 19, 2012 2:59 AM

You can de-sticky this one:

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=74598

It will never happen, so it's pointless to keep it up there.

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jul 05, 2012 5:04 PM

Jeremy wrote:
Blue Shadow wrote:GETTING RID OF ALL THE EFFING STICKIES!!!!!
Yea, good point. I PMed all the people with stickies about polishing them off earlier this year. I don't like FAQ posts with long strings of coversation that follow. It needs to be one, condensed, easily digestible post with the info all in one place. Those that have refused to "finish" their writeups might get their posts unstickied to live in the archives instead of moving to the FAQ forum.

Wow; I come to the Comments section to see what's happened to all the Tech Talk stickies and find this... I'm feeling a bit unloved right now...

Good work, Jeremy. Keep on those slackers.

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