well. WAT?

[lizzie97444]

hmm. I've been noticing that ppl make accounts, post once, never cum bak on..
is there anything we could do about this?

[monday]

not really, this happens on loads of forums. People ask one question get the answer and forget to come back.

We could send out reminder emails to those who have only made one post or haven´t posted at all.

[Leah]

You could delete accounts that have been inactive for set period of time. Make this clear to people when they make the account.

[welshlassy]

but they may be lurkers, i don't post much but like to read other posters

[monday]

Sept 30, 2008 8:12:24 GMT welshlassy said:

but they may be lurkers, i don't post much but like to read other posters

True, but it says on your profile when your last activity was. Logging in counts as activity.

I think contacting people is the the first step, before deleating accounts.

Getting some compititions up and running then sending mass email to let users know what's going on. The comps bring them back then the get posting.

I'm sure lots of users use the forum only when they need advice.

[coyote]

A lot of people just want to find out information from here, they don't necessarily want to participate in discussions. This may be especially true for people for whom English is not their first language. I lurked for quite a while before I decided the forums here would be useful to me and it would be best for me to go ahead and actually register. Perhaps it would be okay to delete inactive accounts, but I would want to exercise caution in determining what "inactive" means.

[Leah]

If you don't want to participate in discussion, there is no reason to sign up though. I'm talking about a fairly long period of time, say 6 months. Prehaps with a warning a week before so they could contact the site if they still wanted their account.

[kanin]

I don't realy see the need for deleting accounts. There's really no harm in having some inactive accounts laying around. And I think it can do more harm than good if we would start deleting "inactive accounts". I think people can get negative to the site if they find their accounts deleted after a long period of inactivity.

And like Coyote I lurked here for quite a long time before I decided to participate. I think the first time I visited the forum was a year before I actually signed up as I just went here for answers to questions I had about my pomatias and desided to participate after I got my first Gals, my two Iredalei.

[Rachel]

I to am an ex lurker. I've got to admit that when i first came on here it was kinda intimidating seeing all these people who had posted loads and all knew each other. Mabye that puts some people off (I'm not saying you're not lovely, the petsnailers rule! ), i just was a bit shy.
Also remember, even if they don't post often, it bumps up the number of members which might make people think "oh, they have lots of people, i'll join this forum, they'll be more active"

[donut]

i have to admit (sorry) i think this is the first time in MONTHS !! i have been online soz

mainly coz i have had NO probs with my snails cant really offer a LOT of help to others & i have been MEGA MEGA busy BUT i am back again & will make an effort to keep coming

i have been the same with 3 other boards & had HUNDREDS of emails to sort out on one of my accounts !! (wont be doing THAT again lol)