Duplicate/Old IDs (Split from Hello thread in Chit Chat)

[Edmundo]

Perhaps it's time to point out that if Banana and/or I find out that anyone is creating aliases, we will suspend their membership of the GPG.

 

[Sweepy]

Perhaps it's time to point out that if Banana and/or I find out that anyone is creating aliases, we will suspend their membership of the GPG.

About time too.

I want to know if any aliases are genuine. Incidentally, in future I will inform the admin if any of my pals use an identity on my PC, so to avoid confusion.

Well done Nanananana and Ed. GPG is wild and getting better. Keep up the good work.

 

[Banana]

Only YOU are premitted to use your PC on the GPG Sweepy. End of Discussion

 

[davebee]

im innocent agree with the attitude tho. this IS getting silly. Why are you unable to name and shame the culprit? perhaps this will act as a deterrent?

 

[Edmundo]

IP addresses are always a good indicator, but not 100% foolproof. There are one or two other things we can do to check, but I won't let you know what these are. If anyone suspects that a username is a duplicate, please let us know and we will investigate.

 

[davebee]

IP addresses are always a good indicator, but not 100% foolproof. There are one or two other things we can do to check, but I won't let you know what these are. If anyone suspects that a username is a duplicate, please let us know and we will investigate.

you shouldnt have mentioned the other things, youv'e aroused my suspicion! good to hear the admin are right on the ball now though. makes a pleasent change

 

[Banana]

davebee, I'm sure others will tell you we've got very sophisicated in tracking down the duplicate IDs, including the historical ones. You may have noticed the number of members reducing recently. When people register we run a comprehensive check of who they might otherwise be. Whenever we have reasonable proof, duplicate IDs are removed.

 

[davebee]

would it also be worthwhile, removing the usernames of people who registered like 2 years ago and never posted? ive always wondered why this is, cos you dont need to be registered just to browse. as you mentioned many of these are probably duplicate id's where people registered and then forgot the password and so re-registered. I know that i was guilty of this when i first registered 2 years ago.

Is this in the right forum??

 

[Banana]

would it also be worthwhile, removing the usernames of people who registered like 2 years ago and never posted? ive always wondered why this is, cos you dont need to be registered just to browse. as you mentioned many of these are probably duplicate id's where people registered and then forgot the password and so re-registered. I know that i was guilty of this when i first registered 2 years ago.

Is this in the right forum??

We're getting a bit off topic I agree.... I'll split it up later.

With the current software we can tell when people last visited as long as it was after the inception of thegpg.co.uk which was in June 2002 I think (I will be corrected no doubt). So we can delete those who have never posted and who have not visited since then.... Guess how many members that'll leave us with!

 

[Sweepy]

about 200? Actually, probably double that.

 

[Alex]

As long as it's only members who have not visited rather than ot posted as Dave says, I was registered for ages before I posted and then it was only once or twice for a long time before I became less shy.

 

[Banana]

• There are 479 IDs who have never posted and never visited since June 2002 (when visiting records began)
• There are an additional 157 IDs who have never posted and HAVE visited since June 2002
• There are an additional 481 IDs who have posted but HAVE NOT visited since June 2002.
• There are an additional 640 IDs who HAVE posted and HAVE visited since June 2002

The sum of the above should add up to the total IDs in use at the moment (and it does within 2).

More recent usage statistics:

• Between December 1st 2002 and today we've had visits from 561 IDs of which 474 posted.
• Between January 1st 2003 and today we've had visits from 360 IDs of which 325 posted.

 

[Brickie Chap]

You are wasted on here Mr Orange and let no one tell you different

 

[davebee]

How DOES he ever find time to do all this???

do you ever leave the house??

 

[Banana]

It's about 15 seconds work that post....

 

[Jay Bee]

1749 members at the moment: has the figure gone down by a lot?

Could a round robin be sent to all the people who haven't visited since last June? That might jerk some of them into action, and probably weed out a few dead e-mail addresses as well.

Mind you some people read the site logged out, I know my dad hasn't posted since the upgrade but still keeps up with the news.

 

[Banana]

There are moves to encourage people to log on. So we get a more accurate picture of the number of unique visitors.