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Could be interessant a plugin to easy administration of unused blog. Something that mark a blog as unused after a period of inactivity (no new post no, new page )

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:11:57
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Maybe you need to get Mr. Andrea on the case.

    I came up with a hack once that displayed the time difference between blog created and last updated times and displayed it within the Last updated block on the blogs page. Then it was just a matter of sorting by Blog Created and looking for blogs with only a few seconds of time difference. Those were the ones that had never been touched. Anything over something like 30 seconds meant they had at least poked around for a bit, changed the theme, etc. I left those.

    I did it that was so I could manually check them. Did right clicks off of the View links to do so.

  • Luke
    • The Crimson Coder

    If it has been 30 days and they still have “hello world” there, then I’d say deleting it is fine. FTW.

    However, for a blog that has been used, more like 60, or maybe 90 days, would seem more appropriate.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    +1 though for announcing said policy publically and then sticking to it. Wouldn’t want to, oh I don’t know, first announce that your blog is yours to keep and then discover a year later that it’s been taken away from you and given to someone else. [humour] Boy, you would have to do some serious butt covering on that one if you got caught… [/humour] Even the sites I host have the “We reserve the right to host only those we so choose” clause. Doesn’t mean that you actually go out of your way to do such a thing.

    With the multiple database hack though, I say let them be. I’ve rereleased blogs tagged as spammer after a bit if they had a common name though. Had someone register sites like login, spam, help, and the like.

  • andrea_r
    • The Incredible Code Injector

    I used to clean them out, but now I only do the few spam ones that get through. I’ve had a couple people come back a year later looking for their blog.

    I DO agree that if you have a time limit, state it publicly and stick to it. I had originally gone with 30 days, but some users were upset that I might nuke their blog if they went on extended vacation. *eyeroll*.

    I can;t remember ROn whipping up a plugin, though we talked about it. I think I wound up just re-sorting the list by date created and comapring them by last updated. Or sort by last-updated in reverse, and they will be at the top of the list. You can give it a glance and see if someone hasn’t updated in X amount of time, and right-click-new-tab on their blog for a quick check to see if it’s legit.

  • kivan
    • New Recruit

    I dream of a such plugin since a long time. I have so many users creating a blog and never post anything, or just a simple nosense post… For the moment I have no possibility to clean that quickly… If someone find something new I would deeply appreciate !

  • ron_r (aka Mr. Andrea)
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    LJ – time deletion is way longer than that. Although they may have changed, I think it used to be at least 2 years.

    Andrea is sick (& Mr. Andrea just showed up :wink: )

    We discussed the plugin Andrea mentioned but I never wrote it. Once we moved off shared hosting and went with Multi-DB there wasn’t any urgency.

    I still do go through every once in a while and remove the ones that are at least 30 days old and have teh default theme & post.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi Mr. Andrea! :slight_smile:

    I remember someone writing one once because I remember testing it, hating it because nothing showed up on the screen to the site admin and never using it again. I swear.

    LJ – time deletion is way longer than that.

    I think they shortened it. If you search my blog, you’ll see a post made where they were selling off those usernames.