Mass Account Purges

On the Stardestroyer.net BBS Michael Wong regularly deletes accounts whose post counts have remained at zero for more than a few months. It is a common misconception that an account, even one with hundreds of posts, will be deleted if it is idle for a long period but that is not the case.

To date there have ten major purges of zero-post accounts, plus a number of smaller purges, usually of accounts registered by commercial spammers.

• November 28 2002 - The first zero-post account purge. ~200 accounts deleted.
• May 10 2003 - The second zero-post account purge. >200 accounts deleted.
• February 02 2004 - The third zero-post account purge. ~140 accounts deleted.
• June 09 2004 - The fourth zero-post account purge. ~150 accounts deleted.
• December 19 2004 - The fifth zero-post account purge. ~250 accounts deleted.
• May 17 2005 - The sixth zero-post account purge. 264 accounts deleted.
• February 05 2006 - The seventh zero-post account purge. ~270 accounts deleted.
• April 04 2006 - The eighth zero-post account purge. 221 accounts deleted.
• January 17 2007 - The ninth zero-post account purge. 1120 accounts deleted.
• September 19 2007 - The tenth zero-post account purge. 1886 accounts deleted.