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college22punk9
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yeah, no login or activity after 90 days, or maybe 180 days should be deletion of account. as simple as that. its not like we have THAT many members that finding a suitable name is that difficult....
I, for one, will never forget.Dr Rock said:i was hoping everyone had forgotten about that by now
I'm going to have to vehemently disagree with you there, Madame.madame_zora said:"I wan stik my cok in ur boobiez" is NOT hawt.
Bavarian said:As someone who prefers to let silence be my wisdom when I have little to contribute, I'm against the automatic deletion of 'lurker' accounts, and after reading the posts on this poll I think I see where the real problem is, namely being pestered/'spammed' by people who do not contribute to the board and seem to only be able to communicate with that infantile 'netspeak.'
There are a number of solutions to this problem, one is already implemented in the site: the ignore list. Granted that can only work after the lurker/spammer has already done his harrassment and abandoned the account, but perhaps a variation, where a member could set his account to auto-ignore anyone with an account less than 30 days old who tries to PM him. There should also be something in the coding to 'whitelist' a newbie if the vetran choses to sent the new member a PM.
So in summary.
1) Veteran sets his 'Ignore newbies' flag.
2) Newbie A tries to PM Veteran -> message deleted, Veteran isn't even aware of the attempt.
3) Newbie B posts an interesting message on the boards, piquing the interest of Veteran.
4) Veteran sends a PM to Newbie B, which automatically adds Newbie B to Veteran's 'whitelist'
5) Newbie B PM's Veteran, and proves to be a complete loser.
6) Veteran adds Newbie B to his ignore list, and never has to hear from him again.
(Note: use of the masculine pronouns is not intented to offend those of the fairer sex, but are being used as 'generic' pronouns to refer to both sexes.)
Thinking over the 'multi-posting' phenomenon in the boards, the only solution I could see would be a bit labor-intensive: having the Mods go through and delete the innane multi-posts, or amending the Terms of Use to make such a breach of ettiquite worthy of a 1 to 12 month suspension, depending on the severity and frequency of the offence.madame_zora said:Please keep posting, this was excellent!
As you can tell from the thread, the irritation is beyond the rude PMs. A lot of "lurkers" just won't read a thread so they keep posting to the oringinal poster and don't recognise that the thread has developed. No one (that I'm aware of) minds that there are people who prefer to read rather than post. What we're frustrated by is that they send stupid messages, or on the rare occasion that they DO post, what they say is on response to something ages old and no longer being discussed, like here.
Thus far, we do not have the ability to "pre-emptively block" pms from people based on the age of their account, or frequency of it's use, but that is an excellent suggestion. Perhaps you could forward to to Rob in the help desk section?
yikes said:Anyway, just my ¢.02............maybe I'll come out of my shell and post more?
-Yikes
West Palm Bch, FL
Pecker said:Those who are listed as "Member"s but who have 0 posts should be removed from the Members List after 90 days or so.
They can accomplish the same thing as lurkers without swelling the rolls needlessly.
Daverock said:Obviously quite an emotive subject from the posts above.
Should a member receive an undesirable PM from a Lurker could they not forward it to a Moderator. The Moderator receiving it could then send them a warning and a reminder of the site etiquette.
Matthew said:People are welcome to forward that stuff to the Moderators if you wish. For everyone's information, you can also put such a person on your Ignore List and you will not receive any more PMs from them.
chyestatorian said:I don't have a large cock, but love to worship those who do.... I don't have a cam so I can't post pics.... Is this a bad thing? If so I do apologize and will stop worshipping large cocks....
Daverock said:That's fine putting them on ignore but
a) They don't even know that you have done so.
b) It just passes the problem on to someone as they are free to keep PMing at will.
Surely it is better that the problematic people be addressed head on is it not?
Matthew said:I do agree with point b), and as I said, people are welcome to pass such a PM to the Moderators and we'll have a look to see if any action is warranted. A few offenders have had their stuff publicly posted, and all I'd say about that is if you choose that angle, don't feel bad if someone does the same to you, ha ha.
In terms of your point a), what difference does it make if they know or not? The point is to get them to stop bothering you, no?
I voted no opinion because The only way I'd give a shit about silent lurkers is if they are screwing something up technically for the site...then I'd vote NODr Rock said:I don't get why there's a "no opinion" option for the poll. if someone has no opinion, then why the fuck would they wanna respond to a poll in the first place?![]()