Hi All,

I was trying to find a member the other day in the 'Members List'. I had to trawl through pages and pages before I found them. I then noticed that there were a lot of members who had not visited the site since 2005!

Does the site operate a policy of 'Once a member - Always a member'? If so then the membership list is going to swell to gigantic proportions and the question must then be asked, To what end? What is the benefit to anybody to have a list that is too unwieldy to use?

If that is not the site's policy then can we have a pruning or cull of the defunct members. Just as one example - page 1 of the list: of the 30 members there are 6 who have not visited the site in over a year and another 3 who have not visited yet this year. This amounts to, at a minimum, 20% non-active members with the possibility of it being 30%. From what I know from other fora this percentage is reasonably accurate.

My proposal is this - That all these non-active members be moved to a 'retired' members area.

I am not asking for them to be expelled. There are various reasons why a member did not or could not visit the site. Physical or mental health; bereavement; imprisonment; financial - all of these are just causes which could stop someone visiting. Should the problem be resolved then the member could come out of 'retirement' and their listing could be reinstated.

After the initial cull, it could be the job of the 'Duty Mod', on the last day of every month, to move the retired members. Non-visits for 12 months might prove to be too short and the time period might have to be increased to 18 months.

Thanks

Regards

Chas