Some people register variations of their nickname in order to prevent scammers from registering them, it's quite common for people to scam using nicknames that look similar to reputable users.
And people who use other bitcoin websites sometimes register their nickname here to prevent scammers from registering it and pretending to be them.
Topic: Delete all the old and unused accounts. - page 2. (Read 1792 times)
I absolutely disagree.
I wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
Same hereI wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
OP only talking about deleting inactive Brand New and Newbie account, not all accounts.
I agree with him, deleting those account will not hurt anyone.
I absolutely disagree.
I wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
Same here I wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
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So satoshi would lose his account? No. Maybe accounts that were registered and never used could be pruned after a year or so, but I don't believe merely being inactive should get your account deactivated.
Generally I approve of account expirations, but on this forum where highly reputable members (such as escrows) are sometimes gone for months at a time, I suspect it would cause problems with scammers seizing old well-known usernames and attempting to profit from them. In addition to that, people who are gone for a long period of time could lose their accounts without noticing, which could cause other issues when they attempt to recover their usernames a year later.
But when a username "releases" and a new party gets that username, is there going to be any way to tell that this isn't the same person anymore? I really think this is a bad idea. I mean, it would really fuck with the reputation and trust systems if usernames were always changing hands when someone went inactive. Also, I can imagine an attack where people monitor for important accounts that go inactive and try to steal these names only to ransom them back to the original party. Finally, "keep alive" email isn't going to help. I mean, who gives their real email address to a forum? I just give sites a spam address where they can send all their junk. Plus forums get hacked and I don't want the email addy that I actually use regularly to get out to hackers so easily.
I absolutely disagree.
I wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
I wouldn't have my account if this were a policy (I went afk for 2-3 years). I probably wouldn't be active either without my account.
More for the New Forum Software subforum, feature request for a 5 month keepalive email being sent, if the account isn't logged in within 6 months, username releases. Of course, some exceptions would have to be made, like Satoshi's username here.
On the one hand I think it's a very good idea delete all the accounts that haven't been used for more of 6 months, so lots of usernames will be available.
On the other hand if I couldn't use my account for a while, I would to be able to come back on the forum.
On the other hand if I couldn't use my account for a while, I would to be able to come back on the forum.
I don't think this would be a good idea. For one thing, users who simply haven't used their accounts in a while should have every right to come back to them and find that they are still extant. For users who are banned, freeing up the name for a new person is confusing because the banned user appears to be back. Also, how do you know that the banned party doesn't simply get the banned name back, basically undoing the ban?
I don't think they will need few kb on the forum's database, if you find that your favourite username is used, just tweak it a bit.
Admins, consider deleting all the accounts that haven't been used for the last 6 months or more with Brand New, Newbie (with 10 or less posts/activity) and banned and abandoned accounts so that a lot of usernames will be available and also it will free up some space (I don't know where).. 
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