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neville

Joined: 13 Jul 2008
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Location: New Zealand

Iirc the forum had over 7000 registered users last time I looked, probably less than a week ago.

So I'm just curious as to why there are only 5830 users today?

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14 Mar 2017, 00:28

revolution
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Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 16057
Location: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville

The admin has been hard at work protecting y'all from spammers and terrorists.

14 Mar 2017, 00:30

YONG

Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Posts: 8000
Location: 22° 15' N | 114° 10' E

neville wrote:

Iirc the forum had over 7000 registered users last time I looked, probably less than a week ago.

So I'm just curious as to why there are only 5830 users today?

All zero-posters have been deleted.

Wink

14 Mar 2017, 01:28

neville

Joined: 13 Jul 2008
Posts: 507
Location: New Zealand

YONG wrote:

All zero-posters have been deleted.

It's a bit hard to see how zero-posters could be spammers Laughing

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14 Mar 2017, 10:39

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neville wrote:

It's a bit hard to see how zero-posters could be spammers

they probably took away some nice and unique nickname that new registrant intended to use Cool

14 Mar 2017, 11:03

revolution
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Location: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville

neville wrote:

It's a bit hard to see how zero-posters could be spammers

So they must have been the terrorists. Shocked

14 Mar 2017, 12:17

Tomasz Grysztar
Assembly Artist

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 6966
Location: Kraków, Poland

The accounts that were removed were mainly the ones that registered long time ago but never even logged in. For some reason there were many of them accumulated.

As for the zero-posters, you might have been misled by the fact that they do not show up in the "Members list". Note that it only shows about 3200 users - these are the ones that posted at least once.

14 Mar 2017, 13:31

AsmGuru62

Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 1388
Location: Toronto, Canada

Also, it is not necessary to post in order to learn stuff.
Just reading posts of others will do fine.
But, yes, to contribute - one needs to post.

14 Mar 2017, 18:52

neville

Joined: 13 Jul 2008
Posts: 507
Location: New Zealand

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

...about 3200 users - these are the ones that posted at least once.

So well under half of the original 7000 users have ever posted anything! So since we still have 5800+ users, assumiing all the zero-posters are gone, there must still be at least 2600 terrorists in our midst, all of whom have posted something Shocked

I'm not one of them, honest, you've gotta believe me... pleeeze don't delete me! Confused

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15 Mar 2017, 03:08

maybe they just registered to download some attachments because guest viewer doesn't have that download privilege,

15 Mar 2017, 08:34

YONG

Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Posts: 8000
Location: 22° 15' N | 114° 10' E

Tomasz Grysztar wrote:

The accounts that were removed were mainly the ones that registered long time ago but never even logged in. For some reason there were many of them accumulated.

As spammers and terrorists now know about T.G.'s criteria for account removal, they will think of some workarounds pretty soon. Bots can register, logout, login, and logout really fast!

Wink

15 Mar 2017, 09:12

Overflowz

Joined: 03 Sep 2010
Posts: 1047

I'm lucky that I survived xD (I don't even remember when I logged in last time).

16 Mar 2017, 15:13

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
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Location: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville

Overflowz wrote:

(I don't even remember when I logged in last time).

The board does. If you look at the home page it tells when was the last time you visited.

16 Mar 2017, 17:33

Overflowz

Joined: 03 Sep 2010
Posts: 1047

Damn, too late. I logged in from workplace and now from home Sad

16 Mar 2017, 19:51

Tomasz Grysztar
Assembly Artist

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 6966
Location: Kraków, Poland

Overflowz wrote:

Damn, too late. I logged in from workplace and now from home

I can still recover that information from the database backups. Let me check... The timestamp of your last visit was 1470608852.

16 Mar 2017, 19:59

Overflowz

Joined: 03 Sep 2010
Posts: 1047

Sun, 07 Aug 2016 22:27:32 GMT
at least I survived xD

16 Mar 2017, 20:28

neville

Joined: 13 Jul 2008
Posts: 507
Location: New Zealand

Up to 5847 users today. Maybe some purged ones got a reprieve Idea

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17 Mar 2017, 23:21

Tomasz Grysztar
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I have been fixing some inconsistencies in the database.

18 Mar 2017, 09:33

Trinitek

Joined: 06 Nov 2011
Posts: 257

This board has been up for 13 years, right? How crusty does the database get in that time?

18 Mar 2017, 22:21

system error

Joined: 01 Sep 2013
Posts: 671

Suggestion: how about changing the forum title from "flat assembler" to FLAT ASSEMBLER to make it look more official and catchy? Try it for a day or two and see how other members would react to it.

19 Mar 2017, 00:57

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