Post or be deleted!

[Shawn Gossman]

How do you feel about forum owners who will email inactive members and threaten to delete their accounts if they don't become active and post?

Is this something you practice on your forum? If yes - has it worked at all?

 

[Cpvr]

Honestly, i’d leave their forum and never look back. I’ll post whenever I feel like it - no pun intended.


No, this isn’t it a tactic I practice on my forum. You’re free to post whenever you want, and I won’t delete your account for inactivity. Your account will always be there.

 

[Tracy]

How do you feel about forum owners who will email inactive members and threaten to delete their accounts if they don't become active and post?

Is this something you practice on your forum? If yes - has it worked at all?

I know a few admins that have done that. And if I get a notification like that, color my happy butt gone from that site. I post/participate because I want to, not because an admin has a false feeling of god-hood.

 

[Heatman]

I can imagine the audacity. I will login and tell him to go fuvk himself. I wouldn't care one bit even if he banned my account. My life doesn't depend on the damn forum.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I can imagine the audacity. I will login and tell him to go fuvk himself. I wouldn't care one bit even if he banned my account. My life doesn't depend on the damn forum.

I've always though it was a bad practice.

While I probably wouldn't login to tell them to go F themselves I would likely not login again after a message like that.

Sometimes I take breaks from other forums. I usually come back

 

[Heatman]

I've always though it was a bad practice.

While I probably wouldn't login to tell them to go F themselves I would likely not login again after a message like that.

Sometimes I take breaks from other forums. I usually come back

I agree it's easier to simply ignore them but sometimes, it's better to tell such jerks they are full of BS to see their shîț boil over.

Taking a break is your once in a while because it helps you not to get burnt out.

 

[AllyHellkiller]

I would delete my account for that. I use forums to learn and don’t post a lot unless I can help someone or know what I am talking about.

 

[Nomad]

When I created my first forum I created a rule where I mentioned that users who remain absent from them forum for more than 6 months will have their account locked and would be unlocked upon request. But I never exercised this. Well, I have never received emails form forum owners to delete my account if I don't log in but I do receive such emails from the SaaS services I use.