Old Accounts

[mikewitek]

Since the site is getting more & more approved How about getting rid of some old accounts? there are quite a few even some accounts which have the person or persons that are dead!!! Namely (I'm not saying)

[reyn]

Stan has addressed this issue before.

He does not delete old accounts, even if the player is deceased. It has to do with the Games History.

[Stan Steliga]

Reyn is right - I cannot delete any accounts, but we have been talking about making the Players directory more friendly by only including people that have been active over the past X months. Another thing on my list.

[reyn]

admin said:

.... we have been talking about making the Players directory more friendly by only including people that have been active over the past X months. Another thing on my list.

I can definitely see that as being a very useful tool, although I would agree that it would have low priority.

Would be a good "subscriber-only" feature.

[nightmare]

Stan needs to think about doing what a lot of other sites do. Allow only two accounts per email address.

[Stan Steliga]

The thing is... it is so easy to get any number of e-mail accounts it just wouldn't matter. If someone wants to create multiple accounts, there really is no way to stop them.

[savin]

Mike,

If you use the new rating reports to select opponents you will avoid non-active players. Only players who have made a move in the last 30 days are included in these reports:


www.stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_publication.cgi?nrs-established-main?nowidthlimit

www.stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_publication.cgi?nrs-provisional-main?nowidthlimit

In addition, you can easily save these reports to your local system and use them off-line. If you use MS Explorer as your browser just pull up the page and then pull down the file menu and do a "Save As". You can then open the saved page in your browser any time you want, even if you are not connected. All the sort options and filters will work off line. The reports are updated once a week.

[Wookiee]

Savin,
Looks like there's some code error on that last link:

www.stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_publication.cgi?nrs-provisional-main?nowidthlimit

[Stan Steliga]

I just tried it and it seems ok... I don't know if Savin made a change or if your browser is having trouble. Can you check it again Wookie and if you are still seeing an error, please tell me:
1) What Browser are you using (Internet Explorer, Netscape...)?
2) What error or problem are you seeing?

Thanks

[Johnny5]

wookiee said:

Savin,
Looks like there's some code error on that last link:

www.stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_publication.cgi?nrs-provisional-main?nowidthlimit

It works fine for me and I use Firefox as my browser

[savin]

Wookie,

Sorry for the problem. As Stan said, lets us know the browser you are using and the version if possible. I tested with NetScape, Firefox and Explorer -- but not every version. I was having a problem with a particular version of Opera at one time -- it turned out to be a bug in Opera. But I think that bug was corrected about 18 months ago (However, if you are using Opera you may want to get a later version if possible -- Opera went through a bad spell in 2003-2004)

[Wookiee]

I use IE, but it looks fine now.

[Stan Steliga]

Thanks for letting us know. There is a delay with that page loading because of the large amount of data. Maybe that had something to do with your initial issue.