Welcome to Cove

Today I've noticed that we have hit the number of 600 registered members. When you browse the entire list, sort it by the number of posts, there are six and almost half pages listing users which have never ever posted a single line of text.

Although it's not my business after all, but what's the purpose of keeping them?

I know a bit about PHP and SQL DBs and I'm aware that it doesn't really have any influence on forum application performance, nevertheless I'm curious.

Those "spare" members exist for a higher purpose you could not possibly understand.

These "spares" are obviously "watchers". Or people from other guilds just checking us out... kinda liek that guy at the mall who doesnt move from his seat but watches all the females under 9 and 1/2 go by.

If so, I still don't see the point with registering on the forum, which can be read without such registration...

Some people create accounts in case they do want to post, and simply don't. Many of the 600 accounts were never activated, also. Sadly however, the major thing pushing up forum numbers are automated spam bots who register to observe shopping habbits or some such nonsense. I've tried to combat them by going to the effort to call the ISP of some of the more malicious ones, but it's incredibly difficult to do much about them other than deleting their accounts.

Just delete them when they create an account.
Or make the accounts admin approval. Which means that when someone creates an account, an email will be sent an admin and they will be able to approve the account in the admin area on the forum.

The Covian empire doesn't want your damned Russian watches I say!

And it's a possibility that accounts will become admin approved; but that'd be rather a bother for us. We do make an effort to delete the accounts wherever they arise (I just deleted a couple myself), but they can register five a day or something ridiculous like that.

Anyone with access to the admin panel can do it, and you're 4, 5 admins? It's not like there are 10 people create an account every day, is there?

You forget we're all chronically lazy.

Give me admin, and I'll do it. *Wiggle-Waggle eye brows*  ::)

Yeah, and delete accounts of each person you dislike / dislikes you / doesn't agree with your opinions... ;) ;)

Of course! Because I loved everyone on the UD forum, that I've been admin on for decades  :-*

Russian watchers?? Eh..... Call the Kremlin, remind them the KGB got riffed a good tiem ago.... CC the message to Octi too.. seems to think hes bein watched by Russians... sad really

*executes self for babble before the Board Gods can smite him!*

You should have used a dummy account if you want to post spam, that's what they are there for!

No no no not again!!! More political babble! AAAAaaaaahhhhhh!!!1

*runs away disgusted*