Account Deleted

[Jazzy]

Can you see which accounts still exist?

No because they don't allow guests to view the member list.

 

[Evil Eye]

Shame :/

 

[Jazzy]

Makes me wonder if they are getting ready to shut the place down.

 

[Evil Eye]

Wouldn't there still be some activity if they were going to shut down, though?

 

[Jazzy]

The member count remains the same. There was only one regular member online within the past 48 hours. There has been no sign of staff since the cleaning of accounts.

 

[Evil Eye]

Weird.

 

[Jazzy]

Maybe they have a new staff member that doesn't know what they're doing and he/she wiped out all staff accounts.

 

[Evil Eye]

That'd suck for them.

 

[Jazzy]

Would be very funny if that's what really happened.



Maybe the last staff member left deleted his/her own account too! There is no staff there and hasn't been for days now.

 

[Ashley]

Forgot about this so I just went and checked.



Total members: 108

Hmmm, when we closed Chatting Time in preparation to merge with PH, we deleted all members who were either on the forum via a post exchange or a package request... we slowly deleted members day by day, until at one point we only had 17 members left. We had over 200 members originally, but by the time we disabled registerations and later closed the forum for cleanup before the merge, there were only 17. So sometimes deletion happens as a preparation for merging a forum. I'm surprised this site has never said anything yet... or have they and perhaps you've missed the announcement?

 

[Jazzy]

I'm surprised this site has never said anything yet... or have they and perhaps you've missed the announcement?

I have a friend on that forum and they have made no announcement. She questioned why the member count is going down but no staff has replied back to her. In fact, there has been no staff online since they started this cleaning or whatever you want to call it.

 

[Ashley]

I have a friend on that forum and they have made no announcement. She questioned why the member count is going down but no staff has replied back to her. In fact, there has been no staff online since they started this cleaning or whatever you want to call it.

Well, I don't even know if cleaning is the correct terminology, so I don't know how that works. But I see what you mean otherwise. Either they're pruning inactive members or they're going to close completely. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[Jazzy]

They should have the courtesy to let members know what is going on. Some of the members I know from this forum are already leaving. They don't like the fact they cannot get answers and that there is no staff online now.

 

[Ashley]

They should have the courtesy to let members know what is going on. Some of the members I know from this forum are already leaving. They don't like the fact they cannot get answers and that there is no staff online now.

Some of the members from THIS forum? Is it a well known site, like FP? Any chance of Pming me the link if nothing else? Somehow this situation sounds all too familiar.

 

[Jazzy]

Some of the members from THIS forum? Is it a well known site, like FP? Any chance of Pming me the link if nothing else? Somehow this situation sounds all too familiar.

No not members from Off Topix. I meant members from the forum I have been discussing. Sorry for the confusion. It's a general discussion forum and that's about as far as I want to go with this.

 

[Ashley]

Okay, I guess I got goofed up. It just sounded like the way your were saying some members from Off Topix were leaving the site in question. Sorry about the confusion.

 

[Ashley]

I would think any forum would want to show a high member count. Deleting all inactive members could really make it look like a forum is dead.

When we closed Chatting Time and started removing accounts, we had over 200 members when we were preparing to merge with PH. However, over 90% of those members, probably 99% even, came from my requesting packages or post exchanges or both on promotion forums or from people asking me on their forums if they were banned from the forum I was promoting CT on. Hence, as these packages/exchanges were a one time deal, then a deletion was necessary.

 

[Jazzy]

It's been 8 days from my opening post. In those 8 days, not only has the member count dropped, there has been only one active member online. Once again, no staff has shown up since they deleted the accounts. Very weird.

 

[Ashley]

It's been 8 days from my opening post. In those 8 days, not only has the member count dropped, there has been only one active member online. Once again, no staff has shown up since they deleted the accounts. Very weird.

That's just bizarre that they would start deleting accounts, have no supervision what-so-ever, and only one active user online. What on earth is going on with that site? Hopefully they aren't just flat out abandoning it, but from the sounds of your post it sounds like they are abandoning it.

 

[Jazzy]

That's just bizarre that they would start deleting accounts, have no supervision what-so-ever, and only one active user online. What on earth is going on with that site? Hopefully they aren't just flat out abandoning it, but from the sounds of your post it sounds like they are abandoning it.

You might be right. Perhaps the hosting fee is due soon and they're just not going to pay it.