System to get rid of unwanted members+Clean up database.

[Equ1N0X]

Most of us know that accounts, posts etc take up space in MMOwned's Database right? and we know that alot of people do absolutely nothing to contribute, and even put effort into causing decay to MMOwned. Because of this I have come up with a system (although it may need tweaking) to help clean up MMOwned's database, get rid of Highly unwanted members, and speed up the site while making it more productive. Other suggestions to speed up the site within reason will be added to OP, and/or changes to my ideas

So here it is:

1: Members who are classified as "Active Member" "Contributor" "Donator" "elite" and up will have access to a feature in threads, described below.

a: Posts by leachers, people with 0 rep power, or 1 rep power will have a buttong that active members+up can see.
This button will also require the user to have 15+ more reputation than the poster who has the button on his post.

The button will serve a function as follows.
If 150+ members press this button, the member who has the button on his post will have his post deleted the first time (saving effort from Mods).

The second time 150+ members press it, the User's account will be deleted, his IP will be banned, and all his posts will be permanently deleted from the database. This will clear up database space.


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The second Tier to this plan is possibly Bar common proxies form viewing MMOwned by a method other than Midget ****** Because although this is effective against someone who has adults near him very often. an adult/teen who is determined to use a proxy to view MMOwned would not care, AND this can be over-ridden by blocking images from the address of the images.(found by right clicking them+copy link)



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3:

Except for stickies, Site records etc, which could be marked with an exception tag, Threads older than two years should be Deleted, as they are almost all outdated information within the "World of Warcraft" and "WoW Emulator Server" Sections of the website. This would clear up space in the Database and make searches return more accurate results.


I will add more later, but ATM gtg take out trash+recyclables.

[ReidE96]

The second half seems a bit....harsh. Maybe it could be a temp ban and the account be flagged for staff to investigate and take further action on?

[Equ1N0X]

#1 ive seen on another site a long time ago. I could prolly script it up in C++ but I cant really do much with PhP

[Piersd]

wow, kinda harsh... i disagree sorry, just report the post if there's something wrong with it, thats what its there for.

also stop saying /signed lol... i don't think it really helps

[Lyricalwarfare]

Matt could easily get rid of the leechers, but getting rid of them is a problem, another one is stopping them from comming.

[Xepher]

I don't know if I quite like this idea, some people do try to contribute and really aren't leechers, if I'm correct you automatically start in the leecher group when you sign up for MMOwned. I think you should probly go on there start date, and how many threads/post they have made. To make it a little more accurate on who really is leeching.

[Clovian]

They like having alot of members. more members=more money. matt makes tons from adds im sure.

[Sonic Waffle]

It is a bit harsh as leechers are trying to make an effort to contribute....
But on the other hand, there are a load of people that just leech and/or just never login! That is my opinion...

[Nilrac]

Or Matt can delete all the banned accounts... better than being an ass to leechers

[dude891]

I disagree. It seems a little harsh and so many people are against leechers so they might just push the button for the heck of it. Its a little mean to ban people who are just trying to contribute.

[---free_kill---]

ya i like everything except the leacher part because its just harsh to people who try to contribute but just get pushed down because its a repost, some know but some probably don't. so just let the leachers be till you or anyone else gets a better idea

[Clovian]

Its just world of warcraft who cares. stop making big deals out of little things imo.

[leoj]

you guys don't understand how forum systems work. This is just stupid and won't make things faster... it will actually make everything exponentially slower. Tracking a users negative button clicks, much less negative button clicks per post, will take many, many, many, many, many more server resources than leaving the leechers alone.

You're being ******* elitists. Half of you have contributed dog shit garbage to MMOwned but still go on ranting in threads like these. You need to shut the **** up and get back in line, because you're way, way out.

If you knew shit about anything you'd realize Matt could and probably does delete user accounts that haven't been active within X number of days. Not to mention the already slow page load times attributed to the feature laden vBulletin running on these now two servers. Add more features and guess what? Longer page loads and more timed out requests.

Also... I wouldn't put any of your guys' shit code into a forum of mine unless you know wtf you're doing... unless you're like Marlo or somebody else who's proven to be knowledgeable. And from the looks of it the lot of you don't know wtf you're doing.

This is a bad idea, end of story.

[Nilrac]

you guys don't understand how forum systems work. This is just stupid and won't make things faster... it will actually make everything exponentially slower. Tracking a users negative button clicks, much less negative button clicks per post, will take many, many, many, many, many more server resources than leaving the leechers alone.

You're being ******* elitists. Half of you have contributed dog shit garbage to MMOwned but still go on ranting in threads like these. You need to shut the **** up and get back in line, because you're way, way out.

If you knew shit about anything you'd realize Matt could and probably does delete user accounts that haven't been active within X number of days. Not to mention the already slow page load times attributed to the feature laden vBulletin running on these now two servers. Add more features and guess what? Longer page loads and more timed out requests.

Also... I wouldn't put any of your guys' shit code into a forum of mine unless you know wtf you're doing... unless you're like Marlo or somebody else who's proven to be knowledgeable. And from the looks of it the lot of you don't know wtf you're doing.

This is a bad idea, end of story.

Well said...
I will be agreeing with you

[KuRIoS]

Most of us know that accounts, posts etc take up space in MMOwned's Database right? and we know that alot of people do absolutely nothing to contribute, and even put effort into causing decay to MMOwned. Because of this I have come up with a system (although it may need tweaking) to help clean up MMOwned's database, get rid of Highly unwanted members, and speed up the site while making it more productive. Other suggestions to speed up the site within reason will be added to OP, and/or changes to my ideas

So here it is:

1: Members who are classified as "Active Member" "Contributor" "Donator" "elite" and up will have access to a feature in threads, described below.

a: Posts by leachers, people with 0 rep power, or 1 rep power will have a buttong that active members+up can see.
This button will also require the user to have 15+ more reputation than the poster who has the button on his post.

The button will serve a function as follows.
If 150+ members press this button, the member who has the button on his post will have his post deleted the first time (saving effort from Mods).

The second time 150+ members press it, the User's account will be deleted, his IP will be banned, and all his posts will be permanently deleted from the database. This will clear up database space.


---------------------------------------------------------------


2:
The second Tier to this plan is possibly Bar common proxies form viewing MMOwned by a method other than Midget ****** Because although this is effective against someone who has adults near him very often. an adult/teen who is determined to use a proxy to view MMOwned would not care, AND this can be over-ridden by blocking images from the address of the images.(found by right clicking them+copy link)



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3:

Except for stickies, Site records etc, which could be marked with an exception tag, Threads older than two years should be Deleted, as they are almost all outdated information within the "World of Warcraft" and "WoW Emulator Server" Sections of the website. This would clear up space in the Database and make searches return more accurate results.


I will add more later, but ATM gtg take out trash+recyclables.

This is a good post, very nice put together and well thought of.

1. We have been talking about the button idea before, but then we saw an awfull feature with some of the contribs+ where they would all -rep the same person because they arranged it in shoutbox. hence we agreed that MMOwned wasnt ready for such a button.
   
2. Might be an idea, but then how can we see midget porn so easily.... /loads up proxy
   
3. We can remove stickies, but we wont remove the posts itself, nor will we remove leechers from the database.. google rating doesnt like when they link to a post and then we have deleted it.

Just for the guy saying "matt must make a ton of ads" well we dont nearly make enough to keep the site running, you can ask Herog and Ket about this...

we will keep this suggestion in mind when we have our next meeting.
/closed