Remove inactive members

Being a newbie I have been looking through the site and old posts etc.

When looking through the members lists, the purpose of which was to look at other peoples picture albums.

It is so full of members who have never posted for years, and I just wondered if it would be a good idea to archive or remove these listsings.

Just a thought.

 

It's not common practice to do this. They are still members no matter how long it is since they last posted. There are stats on the bottom of the Home Page which show how many Currently Active Users we have, meaning how many have posted within the last 3 months.

 

Removing "inactive members" is also a lot of work.
I belong to a messageboard devoted to the saxophone, run by a music shop in Las Vegas. There are only five and a half thousand active members but there are over 36,000 registered.
I've just checked and there's over a thousand presently on-line and it's only ten o'clock in the morning over there.
But then there's a lot of out of work musicians.

 

One of if not the most important part of SEO is web content. If GC deleted the old members and there posts the site/forums content would be dramatically reduced there for knocking GC down in the google (there are other search engine's available) rankings.

As a forum owner my self I know the importance of content and member count from a commercial point of view so under stand EVER member is valuable whether they are active posters or not.

 

OK I understand , not a problem, just thought I would mention it, thanks very much everyone.

 

Ooops! I quite forgot about that, Mr Zen. Thanks for adding it in.

 

Digressing..

On the subject of joining or leaving boards.

Here's an opportunity for an old Groucho Marx joke.

"I wouldn't want to belong to a messageboard that'd have me as a member!"

 

:lollol:



But you really think GM had any acquaintance with message boards? :lollol:

 

I think they were a bit before their time, his comment was really about the snobbery of some mens' clubs, wasn't it?

 

I bet if they were around in his day he would of been a troll! lol

 

Yes, it was about clubs - I was joshing! :wink: