Your first posts as long term members

Bouton Aide said:
Wonder how many accounts on here are alt accounts that someone's joined to troll or to have another account. I bet there's loads.
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Wouldn't be surprised in over 90% of accounts have fewer than 10 posts, then only an even smaller fraction of those would still be active.
I've always worked in web platform development, and it's usually the case. Once was even looking for some testing data I put in against live for a job, and found half of my family had created a new account, spent ~20 minutes on the site, then abandoned it. Online forums and platforms have a surprising amount of deep web data in them, especially if they collect name and address behind the scenes.
 
Cooler running said:
Wouldn't be surprised in over 90% of accounts have fewer than 10 posts, then only an even smaller fraction of those would still be active.
I've always worked in web platform development, and it's usually the case. Once was even looking for some testing data I put in against live for a job, and found half of my family had created a new account, spent ~20 minutes on the site, then abandoned it.
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Accounts are one of those things though if you go pruning chances are a lot of them will be live accounts that people use.

Maybe by login date they could be pruned.
 
Bouton Aide said:
Accounts are one of those things though if you go pruning chances are a lot of them will be live accounts that people use.

Maybe by login date they could be pruned.
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That's a fairly common approach, maybe also those limited to under 10 posts.
Although pruning user accounts tends to only happen on either very high security systems (to prevent old users from using their accounts to lurk) or systems which have a high storage footprint, such as where you can upload images/videos and the alike.

Storage space is small for a database user record, usually a few 32 bit integers and a few varchar 255's. I assume most of the storage needs are in the posts for a forum, as those would likely need to be a Text field; which explains why they just did a forum archive instead a few years ago.
 
Had a look back, looks like there was a nuke after I joined but nice to look back through the old days of BH5 on DFI Lanparty boards running Opterons, Ehiem aquarium pumps, complaining about Amtrak - the utterly God awful courier OcUK used.

Overclocking was much fun in those days.
 
I knew the shop before the forum as I had already bought my first OcUK system in Dec 2003 by the time I joined here. Then I joined here in mid-2004 and I think I was asking for advice on my first flat screen monitor to replace my CRT.

Any idea when the nukes occurred?

If I go into my own profile > find all threads started by me > go to last page of the search results.. it only goes as far back as 2006.

Are all monitors widescreen now?
 
I wasn't allowed to join back in 06 because I didn't have an approved email address, but I guess the rules were then later relaxed.

My first posts were about over clocking, then gradually I became interested in the other forums.
 
Had a quick gander back, looks like earliest recorded post is when I was joining in on a conversation thread about a monitor; Asus PB278Q. Sung the praises of it and the helpful service OCUK provided when there was just SO MANY dead pixels on it (first four of that monitor I received had to be sent back as they all had in excess of 5 dead/stuck pixels, then finally the 5th one; currently in use, the screen was fautless on the pixel side).
 
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