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Warmshowers.org: deleting members who have not logged in for a year
Posted January 5th, 2012 - 9:52 am by  from Rome, Italy (Permalink)Warmshowers.org: Happy New Year 2012 From: wsl@warmshowers.org - 2012.01.05.04.31.00 Happy New Year and greetings to all Warmshowers members! Once again, thanks to all of your for your kind generosity to touring cyclists this year. And all of us who have stayed with you thank you as well. And thank you to the volunteers who spent countless hours making Warmshowers.org work this year: - Kevin O'Leary and Mark Martin did the day to day work of corresponding when members have questions, removing spam and spam accounts, and generally keeping the site running. Kevin also made a number of upgrades to the site, including HTML emails and member recommendation emails. - Chris Meyer enhanced the iPhone app for Warmshowers.org yet more, and it soon will have a version that runs full-screen on the iPad. - I (Randy) was the webmaster and dealt with technical problems and helped with supporting our users. And we got a separate bank account for this initiative this year, with better bookkeeping. But most of all, to all of you who so generously hosted members, THANK YOU. As always it's time to remind you to please log in and check your registration information even though you know it hasn't changed. That tells the system you're still there, and gives you a chance to update everything. As I write this our membership is almost 20,500, but each year we delete about 10% of our members who have not logged in for a year. Please don't let that be you! On January 6 we will delete over 2,000 members who haven't logged in. We remind you in these annual notes that your financial support is always welcome. All of the registration and technical work and the work of keeping the site going is done by volunteers. Our hosting fees and related expenses run between US$70 and US$110/month, so that means we're spending about $840 to $1320/year for hosting alone, and there are related expenses for monitoring and such. We received US$2092 in donations this year. THANK YOU! If you would care to donate, please just click the "Donate" button or go to the donate page. For those of you who would be interested in volunteering to help build the site through Drupal development, sitebuilding, or in developing an Android app for Warmshowers, we're always hoping for committed volunteers who can take on these roles, so let us know. Again, thanks to all of you for your generosity to touring cyclists. If you have any questions at all, just reply to this email and we'll try to resolve them. Thanks, -Randy
Posted January 5th, 2012 - 4:14 pm by  from Dongshi, Taiwan (Permalink)Deleting their family members without a pang of  Guilt. Great way to run a business. Gosh, wonder why Facebook doesn't take that approach.
Posted January 6th, 2013 - 7:20 pm by  from Belgrade, Serbia (Permalink)Not member of WS, but i have 2 points of view on that. Buisniess point: Deleting members is suicide for any site, because site worth more with more users, you can't proove just like that is some profile double/fake, so every user is valid. Members point: It is good to remove/block/put outside irrensponsible/non active/fake members. If i'm gonna ask someone for help, i'd like to get someone who can reply me as soon as possible, not to get to someone who will simply ignore me. So delete or not delete, really i don't care, put as inactive or move them on the last pages of search, yeah!!
Posted January 6th, 2013 - 7:37 pm by  from Paris, France (Permalink)I doubt that carrying dead profiles exclusively for the sake of claiming a larger number is overall good for business. But luckily for communities like WarmShowers.org that question is irrelevant since they are not businesses.
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Posted January 6th, 2013 - 9:38 pm by from Belgrade, Serbia (Permalink)Neither CS was businesses till recent history. So, if they start do delete, they wont be interesting for corporations, also there is very very small risk to scare new members to join. Trust me fake profiles are relevant too. I worked on some project of social network where was big amount of fake profiles. I wanted to destroy all fakes, but nooooo, don't toch them, we must sell it. Even i got order one day to generate new fake accounts. Anyway, i gave you 2 points of view, businesses or personal, you can't support both, but let's don't spam what point you'll support. CS will never delete fakes/inactive, guess why :)
Posted February 18th, 2013 - 10:06 pm by  from Albany, United States (Permalink)I think deleting unused accounts is a fine idea. |