Sorry about the needy headline, we really want all our members to read this. We’re doing some work to the website in order to try to streamline things and make it run a little bit smoother and a little bit quicker. We also want to limit the amount of information we keep about members, even if that information is only really limited to email addresses.
We made a recent update to our terms when you log in as a member and we posted notice back in August on the forums to let people know that we were going to cull the inactive accounts in our database. Basically, the size of the database is making it tricky to work on anything that links to a member’s name. This is obviously something we’d like to avoid.
Over the years, thousands of members have signed up to enter competitions, leave a single comment or simply because they forgot previous sign in details and created a new account. These accounts are easily identifiable because they have so few TSA Points. You get a point for every day you visit the site and are signed in and there are two points awarded for commenting on a story.
So, next week we’ll be deleting all accounts from our database that have fewer than ten TSA Points. Obviously this won’t apply to brand new accounts, we don’t want to delete someone who only just signed up and is going to go on to become a great contributor to the community. We’ll only allow accounts which are over 30 days old to be erased. This is a permanent measure and one which we’ll probably repeat from time to time (or automate) to ensure that the member database is kept as relevant as possible.
We think that any member who hasn’t visited the site ten times or commented five times is probably not going to miss their account but if there are any serious issues with this, please leave a comment and we’ll try to work with you to remedy any problems.
If you need to check your TSA Points total, you can do so by signing in to the site and looking here.
Smallville2106
Nice to know. Thought it was going to be bad news when I clicked in.
MayContainEvil
Yeah, for the moment there I had a terrible vision of TSA being bought-out by IGN. I almost soiled myself it was that terrifying!
Jas-n
Kull ’em All!
Jas-n
That K is for Kris ;)
SH Number 7
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DON’T DELETE ME!!
Sympozium
Save this soul!!
MayContainEvil
You’ll be fine, just comment your ass off for the next ten minutes. That’ll give you plenty of TSA point goodness.
Forrest_01
As long as they are worthwhile comments that add to the discussion, then yes go ahead – Otherwise, probably best not to bother.
That actually sounds quite rude, but what I mean by that is that I would hate to see this site deteriorate into a whole host of ‘+1’s’ etc just to make the grade for the cull!
Besides, stuff like that generally tends to incite a warning for spam anyway.
mcduff1979
Sadly I’m stuck as 1212 points
gaffers101
1214 with that comment, and that’ll give me 1926. Thank you :)
Crazy_Del
Well I log on every day except weekends!
moshi
Check you out with your social life.
blackredyellow
Cull away Peter, cull away!
hunterstryfe
I log on most days and I think I’ve started to comment more now. (Only coz the news I comment on I actually care about).
Mossychops
I’m safe
MayContainEvil
Shun the unbelievers! Shunnnnn…
The Lone Steven
I think i am safe with my 5900(roundedup) TSA points and i have nearly 6000 points!? :O
I wonder if Spike’s account will get culled as he always uses that for comps? ;)