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After a certain amount of time without logging in, your rep decays away, eventually receiving 0. Past that, I'm not sure if anything happens.
 
I doubt it. Maybe TH gets rid of people who haven't been here for YEARS at a time, but if you're going to be gone for years, why bother signing up? :p
 
If you look at the last page of the WE forum, you will see many guests posting (almost all guests). I am guesing they were members, but haven't logged on/posted in 3 years or so.
 
PB_and_J said:
If you look at the last page of the WE forum, you will see many guests posting (almost all guests). I am guesing they were members, but haven't logged on/posted in 3 years or so.
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3 yrs!!! :banghead: :banghead: still here :banghead:
 
I prune the Members List every couple of years. This involves pressing a button and the forum goes through and deletes members who have not logged in 2 years or whatever I tell it to check by.

Special Members, the members with custom text under there Avatar lose reputation due to decay if they dont log in for a few months. After a while, lets say 3 months or so if they have not logged in they become regular members again.

Members are only deleted as part of a forum database cleanup done every couple of years.

So the answer to your question is if you don't log on for a few years you might have to make a new account.
 
PB_and_J said:
If you look at the last page of the WE forum, you will see many guests posting (almost all guests). I am guesing they were members, but haven't logged on/posted in 3 years or so.
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Actually, a lot of them are Google spiders and the like.
 
Sargon is right. The guest you see trying to post are the Search Engines spiders crawling the forum. They will go to the Post screen but they will not post. I could stop them from doing that with a robots.txt file but what the hell - gives them something to do - LOL.
 
Oh, those are probably people finding posts on the Search Engines. They have never been to the forum they just find a post on the Search Engines and reply to it, never checking the date to see if it is a 2 year old topic - its new to them you know :)
 
well... i did something like that ( 3 times maybe) reply without checking the date :D
 
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