Originally posted by FionnMcCumhall
you can get that thru announcments or by reading the main page strider. next reason and it better be good
That has got to be the worst comeback ever, Fionn. Ok, sit down and listen up, I'll go through this again for you.
First off, no matter how much you want to twist my words around. It's as simple as this: I am
NOT saying "screw the lurkers, cause they don't matter." I've suggested this before and I'll post it once again. The Best thing to do would be to post an announcement, a main page post, or an e-mail notification to all users for they know either "Hey, I still want to be part of this. I'll pop-in make one post and I'll be fine." or "CFC? What the heck is that? I never signed up for that, oh well." An e-mail notification might even make some of them active posters, or atleast small contributors to CFC. You are thinking of only the bad and not thinking a single thing of what "good" might become of this. An e-mail notification might remind some people that they signed up here and make them come back. While others it might remind them, but there interest is completely gone and decide to let there account be deleted. Making just
ONE simple post is not asking for much, 2 minutes at the most half the time, and then they continue there lurking all they want.
Not only that, but there are the other bonus's that I've already pointed out. Freeing up used name's for future users. Sure, your saying that I'm saying "Screw The Lurkers." Well, what about he future members that are going to register? By time the Civ4 member rush comes on every single good & bad name will be taken and instead were be having posters called 6742910 or just random letters typed in that make no sense at all. My point being, were going to have to do some type of clean-up sooner or later, as this site is going to be around for a VERY long time.
Another bonus would be the calander bonus I posted also. Think about this: If we delete all the accounts that will clean up the calander birthday list nicely. Then we could possibly have a calander that fits onto the User CP that would (hopefully) be slgihtly editable (maybe beable to add your own personal appointments and stuff on there) and will also contain important dates, like patch release's.
Now, onto your defense's. Firaxis not coming here anymore is more of an empty insult than anything else. They'd either not even see it at all, or wouldn't care either way. They come here, to SEE THE POSTS. This is the largest Civcommunity and though we might not have the most members after this, we will have the same amount of active members, and the quality will be the same. Firaxis will have no reason to leave for somewhere else.
Your other defense being that it is rude to just "delete" someone else's account, and you keep persisting in this even though I told you a million times that we won't just delete it without telling them. As I pointed out above, it would not be that hard to post one, or even that hard to re-register after it is delete, whichever one they prefer. Also, As it is likely to take many months to delete all of them, they have plenty of a notice. If the person doesn't take any action to save there account by then, then they prolly don't want it anymore, and it's safe to delete it. I'm not saying we just go in here and start deleting a ton of accounts, I'm saying we should atleast ask them, in a indirect way "Hey, you haven't made a single post here yet, do you still want your account here or do you want us to delete it?"
Right now, the way your making it sound is as if I want TF and the mods to go through and just start deleting the accounts without a care as to the owners. No, I am not saying that. Sure, I would rather not pretty much have to say "If you want to keep your account you have to post," but as it is not that much of a hard thing to do to keep the account (espicially sense anyone who cares would prolly already visit the site anyway and is already registered).
Edit: Fixed some spelling mistakes.... 4,000 character post.... Did hit 15,000, but I took 2 paragraphs out. (the long one's) as I don't think they were really on-topic.
, and the third, IMHO is a 'bad', for the reason I mentioned before.
) to find out that the name you really wanted was already taken by someone who registered to prolly use the search feature once or twice and then has never returned? While your stuck here with a crappy nickname that you put together just because you REALLY wanted to talk about a game you like. 
(alittle harsher then I really wanted that to sound)
