Member List Clean Up

[Violet]

I am in the process of deleting inactive accounts.  Some of these may have been failed spam-bots, people who joined for no reason, people who lost interest, and I saw a few that were obviously created by people who changed their minds later and chose a different name.  I'd hate to delete an account of a "lurker" who likes EE but doesn't post for whatever reason, but all the member accounts I'm deleting are really old, like a few years, with 0 posts.  Also, the account name isn't being banned (unless it's an obvious spam account like "FR33V1AGRAAA" or something).  So if you joined and never posted for whatever reason, you can always sign up again when you are ready to join us. 

This won't effect new accounts, so if you just joined and want to lurk a bit before you post, don't worry.

[Methid Man]

Thanks for taking this over for me. I really don't have time to do anything anymore these days...

-- Sam the Methid Man

[Violet]

OK, that's about 800 names deleted.  While checking these, I found most of them came from the same few known spam IPs (checked against http://www.stopforumspam.com/spamdomainsandips and other sources).  I've deleted all of the old inactive accounts, and banned known spam IPs when I found one being used.  This has decreased the number of fake accounts being set up.  I've started checking every new account's IP for spam activity on other boards.  I'll delete and ban these when I find any.  I'm very suspicious about some of the newer accounts here that haven't posted, but if I haven't found any evidence they are up to no good, I'll give them a chance.  If they remain inactive too long they will eventually be deleted too.

Of course, anyone who posts spam will have their account deleted and banned as soon as any mod sees it.