Since the new, snazzy forum allows us to display unvalidated users, I cannot help but notice... there is a whole horde of them!
And, to make matters worse, most of them registered quite a long time ago, too!

Dunno, but it just feels... wrong... to keep accounts of people who "registered" well over a year ago and never bothered to validate them.
Can anything be done about it? Like, automatic deletion of unvalidated accounts over 3 months old or something?

I mean, all these accounts do is take up space in the database and login names that could be used by new users who actually make it through the oh-so-difficult (sarcasm) validation procedure.

Ah, the unvalidated users are those that clicked that they are younger than 13 :P For children to legally access a forum, their parents must send a signed COPPA form which confirms that their parents allow them to view it. I haven't received any yet, so all those under-13-year-olds will have to stay on the never-validated list I'm affraid :P But true, no point that the ones older than 6 months stay there so I'll clean them up

:ph34r:
COPPA form, you say?

:whistling:

COPPA is US federal law, not international law. Why even bother observing it when the majority of the members aren't American and the majority of the forum administrators aren't either?

Well, there's always the "Do we need 100 screaming 12 year olds on the forum?" factor :ph34r: I'm not saying all are, but judging from the experience so far... :whistling: