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Originally Posted by FUNMUDDER

I think anyone who hasn't been present in the past year or more should be BANNED!!! If they haven't been here in the past year, chances are they aren't going to come back, IMHO.

This is a bad idea. I've seen a couple people resurface lately that haven't been around for 2 or 3 years. The guy who takes pictures of snakes is one. I saw two others recently also in the general forum and at least one I saw in the past seven days in the 67-72 forum that sold his truck a little over a year ago and just bought a new one in the past week and came back again.

"Banning" is a serious offense. In real life, that would be like saying ... "If you don't fish in this wonderful lake for more than a year, you will be barred from ever coming back again." I can understand requiring people to "pay to park", but ... that's when was the last time you ever saw people eager to buy something they couldn't try first?

If you want to weed out the members, do an SQL query on members. Find * members that registered more than 4 months ago and have less than 5 posts. Nuke them. That will cut out the people who are seriously not interested in doing much of anything here. Some people just sign up to lurk or, as previously stated, sell a truck or something. When you start killing members that just haven't been back in a while - well, what happens to members from the gulf who won't have their home or lives back to normal for another 12 months? You gonna kill their accounts also?