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DSguru2B
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Post by DSguru2B »

IMHO
The inactive users that are not charter members need to be re-considered by the Admin on how to go about with unending list.

This might help in increasing the site performance.

PS: Only 3303 Posters have posted atleast 1 post.
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Post by ray.wurlod »

Lots of folks just lurk and learn - maybe too shy or not confident enough to post. I don't think we can assume that 0 posts = inactive. Perhaps >0 posts but none in the past three years would be a better indicator. What would be the most appropriate process - a private message and/or email suggesting that they were about to be bumped, and giving them some time to respond that they're still interested?
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Post by DSguru2B »

Yes, I agree with you Ray.
Most of the time people just sign up twice I guess.
But having 12000+ users for DS in reality doesnt seem to me a right figure.

I would decrease that year limit to 2 years, as to my knowledge may be I am wrong, Datastage has gained popularity in the past 2 years itself.
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Post by kumar_s »

Not only for past 2 years, but may be more or exponential, and that too after the IBMs Aqusition. I guess Just holding the number of user information in the static database wont affect the day to day performance. Atlest site can have more Gold customers using these numbers.
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How about sending an email requesting confirmation of user, kinda like the activation process for new members in most sites/forums now a days.
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Post by kumar_s »

These process can be taken once the maintanance of the user ids become difficult and tedious. Because this good numbers may boost up the add for the site.

IMHO.
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