A clever idea gone south

[CristinaRobo]

OK, I am sure there are people on this forum who do this, but I just had to give it a shot. I noticed on the opening page of the forum that they list all of the Litsters who have a birthday today. In a spirit of generosity, I thought I'd pick someone at random from the list and send him/her a birthday greeting. Now this is where the plan seemed to slide down the proverbial drain.

Click on first name, notice that the member has zero posts, and his/her last activity here was sometime in 2004. OK, bad luck on my part. Click on second name...zero posts, 2003. Third name...zero posts, 2007. Fourth name...up to twentieth name, ad nauseum.

Now I am wondering if there are really only 25 members on Lit but they are responsible for 99.99% of the posting!

Crawling back into my cave now...a bit disillusioned but not totally.

 

[Eilan]

I think most people are here for the AmPics, though I can't really imagine why.

 

[CristinaRobo]

I think most people are here for the AmPics, though I can't really imagine why.

Either that or they are here to send me ludicrous private messages. I am assuming the rate decreases after they realize that their efforts go directly into the "delete" bucket.

 

[fgarvb1]

Use the force Luke!

 

[TypicalDeviant]

I lurked for the stories, joined for the AmPics, stayed for How To.

 

[glynndah]

I occasionally send out random PMs using that method. You'd be surprised at how many replies I get from users with one or two posts.

 

[Quoll]

You got me curious CR so I had a look at the members list, now unless I've done something horribly wrong the rather scary statistic is 762187 zero post members out of approximately 888142 members.

Eilan, that's a hell of a lot of handwork happening in ampics.

 

[silverwhisper]

remember that lit's got a whole lotta users, cristina. :> heck, on my blogging site, which is only a few years old, the 12th most popular user hasn't posted in 2-3 years now. in its heyday (now past), there were maybe 100 total active users.

and remember that lit's a site where users often flameout, sometimes when confronted by spouses.

ed

 

[emap]

Or silverwhisper.

Come on admit it that trout is a little scary when you are staring down the business end of it.

OK, alot of it has something to do with the fact that when you sign up for an account on literotica, you get an account with the forums, not everybody knows there are a forums. I was a member for maybe 6 months before I noticed there was a forums and wandered in.

Toss in the fact that alot of authors and I do mean that term loosely post one story and never come back, well at least not with that account. Also as our good witch can testify, not all of the 0 posters don't come into the forums, they just don't post.

 

[Mac98]

This doesn't explain that their last visit would've been in 2003 or 2004. Is there no way to delete your account? Wouldn't it be a little more logical to delete someone's account after, say, 12 months of innactivity?

In with the new, out with the old, already!

 

[Eilan]

Either that or they are here to send me ludicrous private messages. I am assuming the rate decreases after they realize that their efforts go directly into the "delete" bucket.

Most of them just move on to the next "victim."

You got me curious CR so I had a look at the members list, now unless I've done something horribly wrong the rather scary statistic is 762187 zero post members out of approximately 888142 members.

Eilan, that's a hell of a lot of handwork happening in ampics.

Judging from my husband's join date, he joined for the AmPics right around the time our first-grader was born. What's really sad is that he has four posts, and I know that I've made two of them!

 

[scoomber]

I lurked for the stories, joined for the AmPics, stayed for How To.

Yup, and some of us really are here just to read! Somehow, this thread inspired me to post for the first time ever.

 

[Eilan]

Welcome to posting, scoomber!

 

[Shadowann2]

Accounts are never deleted automatically, and you can't delete you account on your own. If you want your account deleted, you have to PM Laurel or Manu and request it. That's why, sometimes, when going through old threads, you will see people who have edited their posts to "....." It meets the 5 character minimum required for each post, and in effect removes their input here, but as I understand it, that is the best you can do to delete your account without giving Laurel a damn good reason to administratively delete it.

 

[SweetErika]

This doesn't explain that their last visit would've been in 2003 or 2004. Is there no way to delete your account? Wouldn't it be a little more logical to delete someone's account after, say, 12 months of innactivity?

In with the new, out with the old, already!

No. From what I've heard from incredibly knowledgeable people like WeirdHarold, deleting accounts would cause major problems for threads, post counts, and possibly even the stories.

The best the admins can do (when they have a really good reason) is "froggy" the account by changing all of the posts to the icon and possibly the username to "guest."

The actual accounts and posts don't take up a huge amount of space; images do, but that's one of the reasons why there's the 100-post threshold on AVs.

Lit is cyclical, and plenty of people sign up, post a bit, then don't come back for a year or more. For that, and many other reasons, deleting inactive accounts would cause more trouble than its worth.