On 01/14/2013 02:47 AM, Kinkie wrote: >> Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts? > > Yes, I found out that we can. It's 129 users total. > Amended plan: create a page to explain the account policy; post to > squid-users; preserve those 129, the editors, the admins, and whoever > answers from squid-users; remove everyone else with no other warning. > > Eliezer, Alex; you are right that it'd be nice to warn each individual > user personally, but: > - it's 28k of them. Out of those, I estimate 8k to be real (and the > estimate is VERY generous), at least 20k are drive-by spam attempts > - many of the users have probably fake or spoofed email addresses > (remember, no address verification is done), so the mail would be > unexpected to them, and even if only 10% answered, it's an excessive > amount of work. > - recreating an user account is a trivial matter (even though it now > requires an admin's intervention) > > I will keep the old user accounts around in case they are needed. > > Does the plan fly with you guys?
If I understand your plan and estimates correctly, you want to inconvenience a few thousand of legitimate users, and we could expect a few hundred of those users to come back at you so that you can manually re-enable their accounts? In this case, I hope your estimates are wrong both because I do not think we should inconvenience so many without a very good reason, and because I do not want you to spend so much time on handling those manual cases. Can we remove non-editing users that did not register to receive any notifications? If yes, how many users will be left after that? Thank you, Alex.
