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To Cull or not to Cull?

March 10 2018

I will start by saying I am a return RHP profile. I left for about 2 years, then came back and was pleasantly surprised to find my profile and forum posts still around. So ... I notice a lot of profiles without a "Last On" time. When I look at those profiles there is strong evidence (comments about dates or with ages included) that some have not been accessed for several years. Leaving those old profiles does preserve the integrity of the database and forum posts, but it also creates an unnecessarily large portfolio of "dead" profiles for a new member to look through. Is RHP keeping them to make the current active population look larger? So my questions are:(1) Should old profiles be removed, archived or left alone?(2) If removed or archived, at what stage and what happens to the username and posts? My thoughts are: I would prefer that profiles could be archived. They still exist, but you have to specifically want to access them. This preserves database integrity, saves forum posts and usernames thus preventing people claiming to be someone they are not. If this could be achieved, then archiving should occur around 2 to 3 years after last use.If archiving was not possible, then I think profiles not accessed for over 5 years should be removed, username recycled and forum posts kept but made anonymous.

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RHP User

8 years ago

This could help sort through lots of things. Then the women who don’t want attached men wouldn’t show up in your feed as most likely, or whatever it says. It could rule out people you’d met but didn’t want to reconsider. It could filter out people who lived close by, The whole filtering thing could be a lot better done. Let’s say you want to find a female partner who wants to mutually masturbate, but not have sex, You have to wade through a huge list of women who just happen to list that in their “kinks” and most of them just want to basically have sex and appeal to as wider group of guys as possible. I think they just want to keep us on here, sifting through crap as long as possible. M_D4 - Posted from rhpmobile

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RHP User

8 years ago

They do want us to get our hopes up.

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RHP User

8 years ago

Information management. - Posted from rhpmobile

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RHP User

8 years ago

They could just add an actual date when last online. Then people can tell the difference between current and inactive users. LC.

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RHP User

8 years ago

Same as above

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RHP User

8 years ago

Thanks for those responding. It does show that people do want a little extra information management (yes, I am stealing your comment Free Spirit). The alternative ideas are also good feedback. Maybe ...

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gazpacho

8 years ago

It’s reasonable that the search results place inactive profiles (not on in say 6 months) in a different section of the search results. Though, you never know, that one special person for you may be monitoring via email and just waiting for you to send a message. Maybe not. As for forum posts and that, leaving comments intact provides context. Hugs Gaz

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RHP User

8 years ago

From my perspective, I reckon I probably have one of the smallest RHP catchments. There are only a small number of women who are married, in WA, and in the right age bracket. I am fairly sure that among that small group there's a number of abandoned profiles. So I guess I'm here mainly for the forums.

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RHP User

8 years ago

Cull Cull Cull Cull Cull Cull Cull.. 6 months inactivity for a guest then cull. Why waste messages to a profile that is not active? Was that the question? - Posted from rhpmobile

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RHP User

8 years ago

Live in the now Holding on to ollllllllllld profiles suggests holding out hope for someone/s who has long since moved on.

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