Attention: Deleting inactive users

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:45 pm

I just did some user cleanup.

I deleted all users that registered before 2006 that never logged in after registering, never posted and never sent/received private messages. Goodbye!

Also, I deleted all users that have 0 posts, never sent/received private messages, and registered before 2005 (even if they had logged in at some point). I'm sorry if this knocks out some valid lurker users. If you find that your account was incorrectly nixed, please just re-register!

This whole process removed about 800 users.

This still leaves some valid lurkers:
- 142 users that have never posted or sent/received private messages.
- 91 users that have never posted but have sent/received private messages

- 20 users that have never logged in after registering. These will get deleted if they never show up

-John

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:05 pm

So that leaves about 10 or so actual forum members by my reckoning.

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:50 pm

Now you've asked for it...this thread will get our millions of users posting.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:24 pm

Wow! That’s a lot of people lurking around… I would have never imagined it. More than 800 people!

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:43 pm

Well, even after the deletes, there's 2,679 registered users here. The fact that all of them have posted at least once, except for a couple hundred lurkers is pretty amazing.

But Mr Arkadin is basically right, there's a pretty small *core* group of people that are regular posters. Anyone checked the stats lately? http://www.planetz.com/forums/cstats.php

garyb, at0m, hubird, astroman, nestor, kensuguro, Spirit, kensuguro, samplaire, stadust. Surprisingly subhuman is still #6 even tho he hasn't posted since late 2002. He was very busy while he was here

I'd guess most of the two thousand users came here to discuss their one question, got their answers and then left...

Cheers,
-John

Post by **hubird** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:12 pm

........ 'I have a question'

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:07 am

That makes me rise the interesting question of:

How many boards have been sold so far, conting Luna, Pulsar, Scope, etc., cards? That could be an interesting answer.

Is there anybody able to give us a close number about it?

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:06 am

Well, I've been an un-registered un-noticed lurker since subhuman times. Now this thread has made me register. Maybe that's good.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:58 pm

On 2006-02-25 09:24, stardust wrote:

So I guess we end up with something like 7000 scope cards sold as an upper limit.

No, you are much outdated... I remember that Subhuman, a few years ago, told me that Creamware had already sold 30.000 boards. So today there have to be many more in the count.

[ This Message was edited by: Nestor on 2006-02-25 15:58 ]

Post by **hubird** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:36 pm

obviously Stardust meant from 4.5 on, as that is financially relevant now

I doubt only his estimation of the users that updated...must be much more

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:19 pm

I too think so

Post by **hubird** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:57 am

I know a studio not far from where I live, they have at least 80 DSP's spread over several pc's.

They make dance 'on command', meant for those 'fast' dance compilation cd's like you can hear in a lot of fitness centers (eh yes, I do power training

).

So they make their living from their Scope cards, and they do that quite succesfully.

(It was one of them who persuaded me to buy my Pulsar card back in 2001. He worked in a local music shop - he voluntary quit that job one week later to work full time in his studio).

Those guys neverever visit Planetz, I once asked why, and the answer was clear: total waste of time, and if there's a problem, we find a workaround, byebye

There must be more of them, that's what I think

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:48 am

I met some serious young Modular programmers while I was in Japan. It was there where I learned to get a more monophonic lead patch by using ModIII, and Flexor instead of Minimax,etc. But I still can't get the quality lag processor I want. Well that's why I still use a real analog synth for my leads. However I am getting closer to what I need.
The sound is unique in that it glides from one pitch to the other, but in the real Oberheims each oscillator has a slightly different value for glide which is sadly only controlled by one amount dial, but this is a feature that keeps me using real analogs still. I definately hear a difference in that perspective.
Seriously though, there are other forums out there in the guise of blogs, or chat rooms. I just never found them yet, but I find plenty of info from guys in PlanetZ.

_________________
Jimmy V.

[ This Message was edited by: scope4live on 2006-02-26 10:49 ]

Post by **garyb** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:47 pm

On 2006-02-25 10:06, miguel wrote:
Well, I've been an un-registered un-noticed lurker since subhuman times. Now this thread has made me register. Maybe that's good.

welcome.

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:21 am

John, you may want to clean up some of the SPAM while your at it.

I think some SPAM is still on PlanetZ from December.

[ This Message was edited by: Aries on 2006-02-28 05:23 ]

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:30 am

There has got to be a way to dissuade spammers from registering. Like demanding for something a bit more personal?

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:08 am

I wonder how many of these 'members' were actually bots?

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:07 am

On 2006-02-28 05:21, Aries wrote:
John, you may want to clean up some of the SPAM while your at it.

I think some SPAM is still on PlanetZ from December.

I always delete spam as soon as I see it (along with the users that posted them). But I don't always see it. Please point me to the offending topics.

-John

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:09 am

On 2006-02-28 06:30, paulrmartin wrote:
There has got to be a way to dissuade spammers from registering. Like demanding for something a bit more personal?

Well, I think the current mechanism is a pretty good deterrent- requiring the registering user to provide an email address, and then click on a link in the confirmation email. We really have far less spam attempts than one would expect on a public forum.

-John

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:52 am

I always delete spam as soon as I see it (along with the users that posted them). But I don't always see it. Please point me to the offending topics.

-John

I just did a search with the word spam and spam was highlighted by PlanetZ'ers.

[ This Message was edited by: Aries on 2006-02-28 11:00 ]