[strela]

But we do have some disruptors who literally have dozens of accounts from 1998 or 2000 or 2001 laying around aging, and when one gets banned they start using another.

Has Jim considered "aging off" old accounts so they can't be used in this way as sleeper accounts? Automatically nuke accounts after X amount of time (and X could be a year or more). IMO, anyone who selects a screen name then doesn't use it for a year or more is simply trying to place a "back door" into the system, and should be discouraged from doing so.

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excellent idea

[Sir Gawain]

Has Jim considered "aging off" old accounts so they can't be used in this way as sleeper accounts? Automatically nuke accounts after X amount of time (and X could be a year or more). IMO, anyone who selects a screen name then doesn't use it for a year or more is simply trying to place a "back door" into the system, and should be discouraged from doing so.

BAD idea. I have friends that lurk here and don't post, but log in so they can see pings to them.