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.
Ro6afc11
Hold on, Daily Visit points. I thought we weren’t getting them anymore. Just checked though and had some recently. I went for ages without getting any though I’m sure. If I was on twitter now I might finish this #feelingharddoneby ;)
colossalblue
we’ve been having issues with making the points register (and had to turn them off for forum posts). I’m not sure but I think that part of the problem is that there’s so much dead wood in the database that any system we create has got to track. That’s why we’re doing this: to make it easier to address any issues for our actual proper contributing members (like you!)
Ro6afc11
Yeah no worries Cb. Good luck with the cull.
rht992
oh lord. looked at my points. i’m here far too much
colossalblue
well then isn’t it time to get your gravatar fixed?!
mrpablo42
Phew, thanks for the heads up, couldn’t face being de-rezzed. Being a long time reader far too lazy to login on iPhone have barely accumulated 18 points in 3 years!! Clearly need to put more back in to the superb work you guys do round here!
BIGAL-1992
CULL THEM! CULL THEM ALL!
Awayze
I’m pretty sure my points just decreased lol… Time to stop trolling :(
moshi
Can we get rid of that bunimo bloke, haven’t seen him around for ages.
Origami Killer
or skib for just having too many points.
hazelam
better check my points. let’s see.
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eyx5uLJS1qbhb4ko1_400.jpg
i’m safe. ^_^
Origami Killer
Just got over 5000 points now and level 6! Good idea though, no effect to me
TheDemocrodile
gah!, well that shoved me out of my instinctive lurking :D
colossalblue
*Mission Accomplished*
;)
Unterred
Could you save my log-on please. I’m really lazy at logging in but will try to do so more now I know you get points for it!
The Lone Steven
There is a stay logged in option at the login page. ;) And FF allows you to save your password and login for a website. =)
colossalblue
you’ve got 30 points, nothing to worry about :)