#1 2022-04-29 12:39:45

nobody

The Great

Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 3,655

Purging inactive accounts with no posts

We'll shortly delete all forum accounts that match the following criteria:

We'll delete all accounts which both have zero posts and have not been logged in to after 2021-04-01.

So users who have posted here at least once will not be affected in any way. Deleting the accounts means getting rid of any and all data relating to the registration --- it'll be as if the account would never have been registered, and there will be absolutely no way to restore the account.

The purpose of this exercise is to get rid of personally identifiable information associated with these dormant accounts such as email addresses and nicknames: Passive readers can always view the boards anonymously without signing up, and the best data protection for user data is simply not having any data on file. Also, if the user is not using the forums (as indicated by the 6m+ absence), we shouldn't continue storing the data as there doesn't seem to be a reason for that anymore (discontinued usage). In the future, purges like this are going to happen regularly, maybe every 3 or every 6 months.