Inactive accounts for how long?
No offense, but what if a member is sick for 2 months? or in a hospital? Are you gonna terminate his/her account for not visiting the forum once in 2 weeks? Just asking.:happysad:
Pretty much how it happens. Take it this way - if you were sick or in the hospital and didn't check in or call work for 2-4 weeks, would you still have a job? ... Probably not.
All they would have to do is ask a friend to contact one of the staff here and we'd take care of it for them.
We're not heartless.
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I agree - this is a concern to me also. It also sounds like the account will be shutdown and everything lost without having any warning. What if you go on a trekking holiday to Nepal for 2 months?
It would also be nice to have option to have email alerts on server issues instead (is this available?), and if nothing else, to have option for email reminder every 10 days or 2 weeks to log in to the forum and b) assurance that the account will not be deactivated without first attempting to contact the person. It would also be more reassuring if the account were only at first suspended for a month, with backup and easy restore - and only after then completely deleted. It would also be nice if could notify someone that will be away - and so have the 'vacation' from the forum.
There is an option in the forum to subscribe to sections of the forum ...
That is an idea. But you have to think also ... backups for every account? Thats space that could be used for other things.
Also, not everyone has correct e-mails setup, some don't check the e-mail accounts they signed up for. So, if we did e-mail, and 85% came back ... then we'd have to take time to sort through the e-mails, see who didn't get contacted.
We're not paid for what we do here. Just because I may be home 99% of the time, doesn't mean I want to spend my every waking moment holding someone's hand because they violated a rule they agreed not to break, or to chase them down and say "Oh. You have to log in or you will be suspended"