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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In response to hornyheather / sugarxspice:
Auto-deletion of dormant profiles after a month? This seems most excessive and unnecessary. Auto-hiding them after a month sounds reasonable and balanced.
If there is no login after another month, could perhaps an e-mail not automatically be sent to the users concerned informing them that if they don't log in within the next 30 days, the profile will be auto-deleted?
That makes a total of a 3-month period. Why? Because that's pretty much the maximum for most holiday visas abroad!
As regards comments re: dormant/hidden profiles slowing down site searches:
With all due respect, this isn't exactly the biggest database in the world; if you're finding searching it slow, one assumes that you must find trying to use e.g. price comparison websites absolutely impossible?
Slow searches are far more likely to be due to your comp not having enough available memory due to all sorts of unnecessary junk stored on it and/or unnecessary numbers of programs running while you're browsing. This is a common enough problem and a lot of people make very good money for sorting it out for you, which you needn't spend. You can easily remove redundant programs (e.g. installation progs for applications long since installed, older versions of java etc. that have long since been replaced with updates, stuff installed by the manufacturer which you never use (e.g. an e-mail / antivirus system which you never, ever use because you've chosen something else off the 'net) etc. etc. Then drefrag your disk and compact your file registry.
Also remember that running WindowsXP along with an AntiVirus guard and a web-browser is an extremely resource hungry procedure. It's quite possible that your machine may be using ALL of it's free memory just to do this, in which case it's "stealing" virtual memory from the hard-drive, drastically slowing things down. You realistically need at least 1gig of truly free memory to surf the web effectively these days even if you're still running Windows XP, and most machines over a couple of years old came with half that at best!
If you're trying to run Windows VISTA on with anything other than a modern dual-core processor and less than a full gigabyte of truly free memory, your machine will freeze up quick.
Buy and install more memory if needed. Memory cards are cheap enough.
RE: compulsory photo verification - we have to say that this is starting to sound rather "nanny state-ish". Surely adults should be allowed to make their own, informed decisions about who they'll contact and who'll they'll meet?
If you want to set yourself a criteria of refusing to arrange to meet anyone without verified pictures on their profile, there's nothing to stop you doing so. It's no different from any other rules users make for themselves e.g. will / won't reply to winks, will / won't accept friends' invites unless they've actually met / played with the people concerned, will / won't meet smokers / bi-curious / without a mobile number / cam check etc. etc. etc.
Speaking personally, back in the days when I was a single guy, one of the hardest things was getting that first meet before I was verified. Quite frankly, it made me try harder and be damn polite and reliable about it.
The obvious points bear repeating: we've met plenty that turned out to look nothing like their photos - often because the verification (if there was one at all) was obviously done YEARS before and they'd never been updated.
And finally - a user can have all the verification in the world, and still, quite simply, just mess you about through lack of basic courtesy. As WishyNSiren point out above, the fact that someone may be real does not mean that they will necessarily pitch/play.
Again, we've met our fair share of peeps that take time-wasting to a new level - they're ultra-reliable for the first meet (which they insist is purely social), express great enthusiasm for a follow-up for play - and then cancel at the last minute due to "something haven come up" or "unforeseen emergencies" etc. every time a follow-up is actually arranged. Very, very sad, but that's evidently how some get their jollies.
Our own rule with an unknown quantity - 2 strikes and out i.e. 2 cancellations for whatever reason cited, and sorry - yes, you may well be genuine and have given reasons, but life's just too short.
In short, please let adults make their own decisions about who'll they'll meet and on what criteria; it's only right! |
Mark