1 question

[zyzfcs]

what would happen if i stop loging on TH for ...N years?

 

[DM Cross]

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.

 

[zyzfcs]

gets kick out from TH (maybe?) :nuts:

 

[DM Cross]

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?

 

[zyzfcs]

ill always be here as long as people keep playing WC3 game

 

[InfectedWithDrew]

I'll be here less frequently as of tomorrow but I'll still use the site from time to time.

 

[PB_and_J]

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.

 

[zyzfcs]

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.

3 yrs!!! :banghead: :banghead: still here :banghead:

 

[The Helper]

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.

 

[Sargon]

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.

Actually, a lot of them are Google spiders and the like.

 

[The Helper]

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.

 

[InfectedWithDrew]

Perhaps why TH ran out of bandwith a while back? Too many spideys?

 

[PB_and_J]

Well these gests actully posted, here il go find a few quotes.

Here's a thread: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5317

And another, all guests execpt an admin: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5654

 

[The Helper]

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

 

[zyzfcs]

well... i did something like that ( 3 times maybe) reply without checking the date