Do we really have 40,000 members. Looking through the member list I see a lot of people with 0, 1, 5 posts. And a lot of names that look like they were brought over from when PO split from H-A. Shouldn't a lot of those users be purged? I mean we have been pay for two years so if you haven't posted since then then they are prob never coming back.
I imagine reducing the number of users would help the site out as the dbase would be smaller. I also know that simply deleting them would prob mess things up with referencial integrity and all that. (dbase looks for a post by a user that doesn't exist) I was thinking that you could get rid of any user that hasn't posted in X years AND has < X posts. Then any posts that were made by them could be assigned to a general "deleted member" account.
Or what about putting an active flag in the user dbase and counting active and inactive users (active being ones that have an up-to-date paid account). Then make the member list only active members. I guess you could put the member status in the thing on the left of the page with location, trader rating, etc... too.
I'll stop acting like I know about computers and programming and what's best for the site now.
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