GarfsField
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Dear x10Hosting
I have noticed while going through the different posts here that some people who have had their accounts suspended/terminated had the misfortune of being away on a course, vacation and possibly even hospital.
Now I do realise that you have the 14 day forum log off and visit for a purpose and that it is in the ToS as well.
However, I have a suggestion that could help to resolve this issue.
An additional 3 fields could be added to the site maintenance database, 1 a bit type (flag), 1 a date field and 1 a smallint field. These could be updated from the Accounts Control Page. A small change would have to made to the ToS to accomodate this. A max period of 6 weeks should be allowed for not accessing the forums in order to cater for those issues as given above.
The flag field would be set which would represent the user saying they are going to be afk, the date field would record the date of this happening and the smallint field would represent the total number of days the flag has been set for the year. The year should be calculated from the accounts birthday and could be reset to 0 every new birthday. Once the smallint field reaches a count of 44 (7 x 6 + 2), then the flag should be auto removed and the account suspended. The extra +2 is to allow grant 2 days for people that have a bad memory and will also ensure that they have no excuse for updating the account to unset the flag them selves.
This would be very easy to code and I believe would benefit all your users.
Many thanks
I have noticed while going through the different posts here that some people who have had their accounts suspended/terminated had the misfortune of being away on a course, vacation and possibly even hospital.
Now I do realise that you have the 14 day forum log off and visit for a purpose and that it is in the ToS as well.
However, I have a suggestion that could help to resolve this issue.
An additional 3 fields could be added to the site maintenance database, 1 a bit type (flag), 1 a date field and 1 a smallint field. These could be updated from the Accounts Control Page. A small change would have to made to the ToS to accomodate this. A max period of 6 weeks should be allowed for not accessing the forums in order to cater for those issues as given above.
The flag field would be set which would represent the user saying they are going to be afk, the date field would record the date of this happening and the smallint field would represent the total number of days the flag has been set for the year. The year should be calculated from the accounts birthday and could be reset to 0 every new birthday. Once the smallint field reaches a count of 44 (7 x 6 + 2), then the flag should be auto removed and the account suspended. The extra +2 is to allow grant 2 days for people that have a bad memory and will also ensure that they have no excuse for updating the account to unset the flag them selves.
This would be very easy to code and I believe would benefit all your users.
Many thanks