Have you ever looked at stats on the Fluther Awards page?

A lot of the 23,488 members are not active and never closed their accounts. Maybe Fluther should close accounts after 1 year of non-activity.

I think we do have a ton of spammers and trolls, but I’ve seen cases where a newbie creates an account, answers a few questions, maybe asks one or two questions, then never returns. I don’t think it’s a case of making them all feel unwelcome, I think it’s more a case of many people coming here, who don’t get the “feel” of the place and either conciously decide to not come back, or they just forget we’re here.

There are also the people that only came because they needed a certain question answered, but don’t want to be part of a Q&A community.

And then there are those who were made enthusiastic by their, long time Fluther member, partners, but didn’t get that excited, and left/quit after a few days.
I know one.

Yes I looked. Some join and after a time get bored or it’s not interesting enough to stay around.

I know 3 long time Jellies who created another account, just so they could ask a question anomalously, then abandoned their temporary identity.

1636 people made it to 500 lurve. That seems like a good benchmark.

@rebbel I know one, too. He once considered trying it again, but nothing has come of it. All well. I’ll enjoy Fluther by myself, and he can lovingly tease me for it.

I too know a handful of people who created accounts but didn’t stay but an initial few months :(

My wife is one of them. She created an account because I was so enthusiastic about Fluther. Turns out, her…not so much.

I do like the idea of deleting (or archiving) accounts after a year of inactivity. Just to keep things tidy.

In a year of modding I think I banned somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 trolls and spammers. That was just ME- not counting any of the other 6 mods. So yeah, there are a lot of spammers and trolls.

I don’t think we do a good job at making new members welcome. When I first came on, I was personally attacked up the wazoo. I’ve developed thick “jelly” skin however. I think in the social area of questions it should state, no personal attacks or become banned! Jk that may be over the topped but yes. Alot of people think this is a quick forum and want quick answers, when they sign up and realize the same people keep answering it the magic becomes, faded? Alot of people just want to try it out and sign up for fun. I remember seeing a post where a girl straight up quit because she was called a slut. So we got to watch it.

@Dog care to give us your definition of a troll? And please don’t use urbandictionary or wikipedia definition ^^

Not yet… where are they?

@GabrielsLamb ahhh a jelly after my own heart. Answers the question without reading the details.

@Lightlyseared hee hee… Sorry.

@Hibernate A troll is someone who uses racist terms and/or is only interested in insulting and degrading others. We give them a chance or two- ask them to play nice- but often times they are bored and enjoy the sport of hurting others.

Yes but we have a very active staff and they moderate those replies. You might read it when it was posted and others might see it for a few minutes but eventually it gets moderated.

@Hibernate ???? I am a mod… but maybe I am just tired. If so I apologize.

Did I say anything about you being a moderator or what? I said WE [the community have an active staff who usually bans trolls comments when they insult etc].
As for the part being moderated. When you chat with someone and he attacks you you are able to see what he posted [if you are still at that question] but after being flagged as an insult it gets moderated.