Buffy ,'Showtime'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Unrelatedly, for the record, because I haven't checked in a while, of our 1105 registered users (934 marked active), 222 posted in the last month. 23% posting seems pretty damned solid.
Can't tell you about folks that have registered and lurked, and naturally even less about unregistered lurkers.
222 foamy posters. A number that is a personal favorite.
What a splendid idea. I'll vote for it and opt in. (Because it's all about me, really, isn't it?)
Yep.
I would think that archived threads would be the place to go for this. It shoud really be threads that predate this discussion so that knowledge of this happening doesn't taint the results.
Sorry, just got all researchy there.
The idea that words of mine might have an impact on the English language . . . I don't think you could give a writer a bigger ego-thrill. I'm all goose-bumpy--and that's not just because I can see my breath back here in my office.
Connie, could I send your (anonymous) quote to the organizers? We're looking for good stuff to put in the press release. So not only might you influence the English language, you might influence other writers to influence the English language!
(934 marked active)
What does this mean? I know that sometimes people who leave ask to have their accounts marked inactive, but do unused accounts also "go inactive" after a certain period of time?
do unused accounts also "go inactive" after a certain period of time?
Nope, but some are never activated.
Nope, but some are never activated.
And some appear to spontaneously deactivate. I have no idea if this is user error or a bug in the activation routine. Although it occurs to me that most of the reports of this occurred with new users who registered when we were getting the error messages. What happens when you try to activate the account, and you run out of connections? It seemed like the system would let them in anyway, but not activate the account. Then the next time they tried to get in, it wouldn't let them.
The "deactivation" seems to happen when a new user logs in for the first time and changes their password from the system generated one. We've gotten a bunch of emails from users about this.
t on edit Actually, I wonder if the new user is ever active. Maybe clicking on the activation URL and immediately changing your password messes with the initial activation?
t /grasping-at-straws
Ah, thanks for the explanation.