[Datalore]

I have a question: recently, on another forum I rarely go to, they just went through and deleted all the user accounts with 0 posts. Now, I haven't worked with Invision that long (or PHP or MySQL for that matter) to know how much space a user name and profile takes up. I'd suspect it'd be around 5 kb? Is that even worth deleting all the 0-post members? So, I went on the MSFN member page, sort by post count, ascending. Well 68 pages later, I hit the 0 posters. There were 158 pages of them. With 50 results per page, that turned out to be about 7900 0-post members.
If each is a 5 kb space hog, according to my (probably wrong since I'm tired) calculations, it's 38 megs of disk space. Does something like that impact server performance?

[FthrJACK]

not really. some people register and dont post for years, people have posted on here before when they registered moons ago. Deleting them results in a flurry of "why did you delete me" emails and complaints.

[un4given1]

Registering gives you the ability to view posts since your last visit and a couple other things. That alone is worth registering. Usually site space isn't the issue... it's site bandwidth. If it were causing more bandwidth then I could see why someone would delete them, but it's not.

[xper]

Over 3.000 people are subscribed to threads or topics. Bandwidth is not issue. We deleted 0 post members twice before ( about 4.500 members) and got a lot of mails from angry users.

So there is no reason to delete those 0 post members.

[MSNwar]

Bandwidth Heaven

[Datalore]

I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Thanks for letting me know.

[Doggie]

only just noticed the topic hmm its nice to see that we have a lot of users and all from different countrys, age range etc.. but sometimes u dont go on a forum for awhile then all of a sudden go there one day and find ur account has gone would be a lil annoying .. i am registered to soo many forums its unbelievable.. but many i have forgotten.. not MSFN of course