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there are 2708 forum accounts with 0 posts. senseless if you ask me.

Probably some people need more forum accounts to vote against disliked players, which want to be a GM... could that be possible?

kickinyourface wrote:there are 2708 forum accounts with 0 posts. senseless if you ask me.

Just because an account has no posts it doesn't necessarily mean that it is unused. There are a lot of features you can't use as a lurker unless you register.

But even the unused accounts do not hurt anyone. The forum runs on a relational database which doesn't slow down much when operating on large amounts of data.

Ginaria wrote: Probably some people need more forum accounts to vote against disliked players, which want to be a GM... could that be possible?

Its no longer possible to vote in GM Community Suggestions unless you have a certain number of forum posts.

Crush wrote: But even the unused accounts do not hurt anyone. The forum runs on a relational database which doesn't slow down much when operating on large amounts of data.

Actually relational databases don't scale very well... but yeah.... unless you are storing the amount of data Google has, relational databases seem to work fine.

Ginaria wrote: Probably some people need more forum accounts to vote against disliked players, which want to be a GM... could that be possible?

You need at least 20 posts to vote, these accounts have none.

kickinyourface wrote:there are 2708 forum accounts with 0 posts. senseless if you ask me.

Hi kickinyourface,

As I see you have a good amount of useless accounts, so why not to delete them?
If players are making accounts on forums, they should use it, so I think we need to delete everything without any activities.

I'm a little sure, that some of them are bots.

Cheers, Dark.

Forum accounts are not much of a technical hindrance: there is no need to prune them.