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Delete/clear old accounts

Postby freshP » Tue May 13, 2025 9:34 pm

I wanted to ask, why the stats get cleared after 3 months, yet old accounts never get deleted? I mean some people make new accounts on a daily basis, yet the names are less and less creative, because the good ones have all been burnt over the years.
Wouldn't it be possible to delete all accounts, that haven't been used for e.g. the last 2 or 3 years?
I don't know the corresponding db, but the site and wc3connect seem well programmed. So I'd be astonished, if there is no column in the db with "last login" or similar. "DELETE FROM wc3players WHERE last_login < NOW() - INTERVAL 3 YEAR" shouldn't be a hassle :)

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Re: Delete/clear old accounts

Postby RichardCoffee » Wed May 14, 2025 4:43 am

This makes no sense, to me at least. You want to delete old accounts to use other peoples' old names, which are currently reserved?

In general it is bad policy for a platform to delete user stuff as it encourages users to view it as transient and non-engaging. A huge part of Ent's success is definitely because it preserved things like stats, games/replays, this website, etc.


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