why does fte keep the inactive users and by inactive i mean the 28,740 users that registered here and never posted a single post. if you get rid of them wouldn't that allow more free space on the fte servers. i was shocked to see that there was 958 pages of users from years past that are still registered here and never poste don this site or logged in after they registered, why would they bother registering? 28,740 is a lot of people doesn't that equal a lot of used memory on the fte server. if you get rid of all that you have a lot more free space. then there was also thousands of members that only posted 1 post and never returned and i don't think they are coming back most are from years ago all the way back to 1999. why so many inactive users here.

 

What ever they post is considered content.

IIRC ,After a year,users who haven't posted get purged to the archives.

 

ok. so what happens to the users who get put in the archives. why not just delete them.

 

You have to figure quite a few things when you consider that, Gashog. I know from a fact from talking to some folks around and about that there is an even bigger number of folks that never even register at all, but they swear up and down they don't know what they'd do without the FTE website to browse for answers to their truck questions.
There are also folks that register solely to ask that one burning question that they can't find an answer to anywhere, and thereafter are happy to come and look and find their answers without feeling a need to post word one. If their accounts were canx'd - they'd likely feel pure-dee upset about it, not to mention feeling unwelcome. I know I would be, and I went through more than a year at one point without having any internet access at all.

One guess what the first website I returned to was...

As with speaking before audiences, posting on the internet in large highly trafficed webforums presents a mental block for some folks. "Oh my God" they might think "What if I write something that makes me look silly?"

It takes a kind of a flexible sense of humor to get over that one. I know I've written a fair amount of just plain silly stuff myself, and every so often will write something ridiculous just so I can remind myself I'm not bulletproof or "starched from socks to cowlick".

Howsomevermore... (Especially having once been a moderator) what if I could not log in because I had no internet, and after all that time I got back online and found my account done away with? I'm living proof that FTE will welcome people back.

If the old accounts are not being accessed, they don't constitute much of a traffic burden, and the storage for even that many folk is probably well under 200Kbytes (about the size of a palm PC Application).

Its a 'Hospitality' thang - and KPayne is from the south, Y'all...

~Wolfuss

 

I'm glad inactive folks don't get deleted....for example...I am a pretty active user, but when I deploy to the middle east...I can't log onto FTE through the firewall the Air Force puts up, so I may go 3 - 4 months with no posts. It would be very upsetting to come back from a deployment and can't get back on...

 

I don't post, but I like to read. Please don't delete me. I registerd a while back I have just not felt the need to say much.

 

1 and a 1/2 years and this post makes #2.

 

Otisinwf...so what took you so long?

I'm jsut kiding.....you have two now, so go for three and four and five

 

here's 3, sorry. I just like to read about whats going on. Maybe I'll post every now and the so nobody oust's me. There is probably alot more like me that just like to read posts.

 

Workin on #4 and someday 18,000 wow!

 

Every couple weeks I get told i havn't said any thing. But I look around just about every day(6 out of 7). Just don't have much to say most days.

 

Regardless the "Rabblerousing" (and impolite, in retrospect) "Why do I post" thread I authored, I understand completely, believe it or not.

Over time, since I first got on the net I learned one of the cardinal rules of any good web-site. It was something a few people advised even lowly little me (he of few long-term or permanent websites) to be aware of. And it was simply this:

"Thou Shalt Delete NOTHING, for that which is CTL/ALT/DEL'd Might One Day Salvage Thine Backside"

~It's very much like old tax records, in an odd sort of way...

But on the very direct "People Level" of things - you want to make friends, you know people might have phobias about posting, there are GADZILLIONS of reasons why people just don't jump right up and write a whole encyclopedia full of stuff. (?) -And then there's Mil1on...

NOTE: I can poke fun, because I resemble that!

And some people would rather dig than straight up ask "HEY! HOW DO I..."

I should know, I have a bigtime problem with asking for help unless and until I can't find daylight in any direction. I had to FORCE myself to ask anyone for help for many years, and I'm still not used to it. Yet for others its a common natural thing to do.

-It may have somewhat to do with being around a lot of people for most of my life that would rather bleed someone else of favors than get off their own bench-warmers and do things for themselves. But that is way off-track of the subject. Hmm... Or is it?

It could be the median personality profile of someone that wants to rebuild an old truck, modify the bejayzuss out of their machine, or to do their own maintenance is the kind of personality type that wants to do it all on their own as much as possible.

Do you know people who play video or PC games? There are two kinds: Those that immediately seek out "CHEAT CODES" (Type 1), and those that don't want to hear anything about cheats until they have struggled all the way through whatever game it is all by themselves (type 2).

I think FTE is 99% type 2. That might explain it...

~Wolf

PS: In my previous career I was forcibly exposed to exerpts from a book entitled (something along the lines of) "How to Become a More Effective Person" - I thought most of it was crud, and still do.

PPS: "Always suspect FREE advice. There must be some reason they don't CHARGE for it..."

PPPS: (in the case of Club FTE) "Consider the Source"
-And by that I mean think of things in terms of results. Look around FTE, and you find SUCCESSES. That was what sold me on it.

 

I know I just don't post a whole lot. Don't have a lot to say.
And when I do, somebody that's quicker on the trigger beats me to the punch.

EDIT: But at least now the "You need to post" reminder will go away for a few days..

 

When I first got on the site i hardly ever posted and now latly i post like 4 or 5 times a day rather then 4 or 5 time a month.

 

I don't really post to much, heck, I don't even own a ford. But I do love to read here.

PS - Ford owner all my life but just traded my pickup for a Jeep Liberty. A family man now ya know. But I'll be back, I'm already having DT's.