I've been here a while and have collected up hundreds of friends - and tonight i spent about an hour purging quite a few off my list by hand. But to find out if they were dead profiles, I had to look at each profile. While some people just aren't active - a number of people don't have an active profile ("nothing here").
For these, is there an easier way to bump them off the friend's list? I'm sort of wondering why it's not automatic. If they're not here, why have traces of them left on the site?
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Easier way of purging dead profiles off friend's list?
Matriarch
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I've been here a while and have collected up hundreds of friends - and tonight i spent about an hour purging quite a few off my list by hand. But to find out if they were dead profiles, I had to look at each profile. While some people just aren't active - a number of people don't have an active profile ("nothing here").
For these, is there an easier way to bump them off the friend's list? I'm sort of wondering why it's not automatic. If they're not here, why have traces of them left on the site?
Very good point.
There are lots of clean-up routines on the site. It looks like that isn't one included as yet.
I'll let Gav know.
Errant Smut Slinger
( New topic here 3.5 seconds after the first dormant friends clean-up runs )
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIENDS??!!?!?!!!!
LOL In other words, I wouldn't actually purge dormant profiles ( even if they never got beyond the default avatar stage ) unless it's necessary for site health reasons.
It might be worth considering a solution where the purge of friend lists is user initiated as well. Make it a dashboard tool rather than a regularly running, site-wide task.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIENDS??!!?!?!!!!
LOL In other words, I wouldn't actually purge dormant profiles ( even if they never got beyond the default avatar stage ) unless it's necessary for site health reasons.
It might be worth considering a solution where the purge of friend lists is user initiated as well. Make it a dashboard tool rather than a regularly running, site-wide task.
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( New topic here 3.5 seconds after the first dormant friends clean-up runs )
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIENDS??!!?!?!!!!
LOL In other words, I wouldn't actually purge dormant profiles ( even if they never got beyond the default avatar stage ) unless it's necessary for site health reasons.
It might be worth considering a solution where the purge of friend lists is user initiated as well. Make it a dashboard tool rather than a regularly running, site-wide task.
Yeah - if it's up to me that's great. It's just sort of tedious - extremely tedious. Some of these 404 profiles have been dead for a few years at least.
Code Monkey
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Awesome! I know he's bored and twiddling his thumbs like the Maytag guy.
Your ghostly friend challenge made me not sleep.
So I'm keen to understand what you are seeing. Your friends list in your settings page will not show a user who no longer has a profile on here (been deleted). So perhaps you are seeing friends who have deactivated their accounts? Are these what you classify as dormant?
Charming as fuck
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Your ghostly friend challenge made me not sleep.
So I'm keen to understand what you are seeing. Your friends list in your settings page will not show a user who no longer has a profile on here (been deleted). So perhaps you are seeing friends who have deactivated their accounts? Are these what you classify as dormant?
I've never seen it with friends, but have with someone's following list. This is Magical Felix's following list (not stalking you, Jack, I promise, lol) and papergirl is still listed, but she deleted a couple of years ago.
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Your ghostly friend challenge made me not sleep.
So I'm keen to understand what you are seeing. Your friends list in your settings page will not show a user who no longer has a profile on here (been deleted). So perhaps you are seeing friends who have deactivated their accounts? Are these what you classify as dormant?
LOL
Hopefully sleep came anyway :)There are a few different things here... let me try to get this organized:
Glad you clarified that - so then yes, I'm presuming that all the profiles were "404 - nothing to see here (the picture of the sad girl)" were deactivated by the user at some point.
"Dormant" for me is just a general way of saying 'they're not around anymore'. Whether that's because they just haven't logged in for years, or if they deactivated their account.
I was mainly wondering about a mass-removal approach being enabled somehow so it's easier to remove multiples at a time.
In the Friends listing (that's accessible through 'settings') it provides a checkbox to the upper-left of each avatar. However, these checkboxes don't really let you do anything. You can't click multiple check boxes but it doesn't allow you to do anything in one fell swoop. I had to then remove profiles manually.
So I was going across each line - clicking those profiles open in a new tab - so then I could look at the profile and see when they were last active.
Then, to remove, I had to go back to the Friend's list page, scroll through and find that avatar and click 'remove'.
Each time I removed a friend from the list, the page would reset and send me back to the top - and I'd repeat the scroll/hunt to remove the next, and the next.
I purged over 100 profiles from my Friend's list this way over a few days. It was very tedious.
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So I really don't know what would make that type of thing easier to do. No matter what, it would have to be decided on a profile-by-profile basis and, yes, it would be best for this to be done manually by the person wanting to clean up the friend list.
If the checkboxes allowed you affect those checked profiles in the same way, that would have been awesome. (like how the inbox systems lets you clean up quick).
And if there was a way to 'remove this person from your friend's list' from within their profile that would be great too . . . at least for me, given that I had to open and looked at every profile to figure out what to do then go back (etc). . . however, I see significant risk that comes with that option from people accidentally clicking.
At the least, if the friend's list screen didn't scroll to the top after every removal, that would have been awesome.
Thanks for looking this over with your thinking hat on :)