[hibernate-dev] Hibernate forum inactive users pruning

[Vlad Mihalcea]

There must have been some checks probably when the Home page was rendered,
but you can check it out and see the result.
I wish I could find a way to delete banned users too.

My banning routine goes like this:

1. I ban the email address or the whole domain if it's one of those
temporary email domains used by spammers
2. I then delete the spam account to make sure we don't store unnecessary
users in the DB

I noticed that the amount of spam has been reduced, although we still have
it.
They seem to bother to open a Gmail account just to send a post that's not
even visible.
I guess they do it manually, since Gmail should have a more robust Captcha
mechanism.

Vlad

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Awesome!  Although I find it strange that a mere 13% decrease in the
> number of registered users would have such a big impact on overall
> performance of the forum.
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:53 AM Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Among all 75000 registered users, 10000 used to be inactive ones
>> (registered without any post).
>>
>> Regular users are always creating an account and post at least one
>> question
>> on the forum, so there is no reason why we should keep 13 years old user
>> accounts that haven't posted anything on the forum.
>>
>> Most have been registered with temporary email addresses or other spam
>> domain names.
>>
>> I deleted those and now the forum is so much faster.
>>
>> Vlad
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