As a forum owner, I don’t believe in deleting accounts. I wouldn’t like if my account was deleted after years of building my account.
Should forums delete accounts that not active for a long period?
- Thread starter Min George
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It's best too, we don't need to delete accounts and the perfect example would be forum coin. They don't delete accounts or forfeit earnings even if the user does not return for decades
No, i don't think forums should delete accounts that have not been active for a long time.
I know of websites that don't delete accounts and don't touch their earnings even if they are not back for years and have realized that some people have either died but still their account is not deleted.
The thing is that inactive accounts can consume valuable server resources and slow down the forum's overall performance.
If the account has more than 10 or 20 posts the forum owner should not delete the account. Sometimes due to personal problems, the forum member may not be active online for a long time.
I own a forum and I don't delete users, even those not any more active since years. I don't see the need. I only ban people who break the rules/roundly spammers and bad tempered/flamers. Out of the mentioned behaviour, I don't bother at all if users post once each couple of years 
I think there is no need for the forum owners to delete inactive accounts on existing forums. That is because the content is usually needed for traffic and website development.
It really doesn’t. Inactive accounts don’t take up that much server space.
The main thing that slows down a server is poorly optimized server resources.
It is not a recommanded practice to delete inactive accounts. Because if I signup on website and come to it after 1 year and find my account deleted, i will never signup again to go to shop.
