Hello,

It's very hard to say something based on that number of 10,000, other than that the registration system is appearantly working at times.

Back in fall 2002 we had to migrate from UBB forum to Ikonboard. An unofficial convertor script was used to import users/topics and stats. Many new things for me and it wasn't a walk in the park, I deleted some 1,500 accounts who were both a few months old and never posted to make conversion smoother (made it easier to track a glitch later on).

I've seen a few of those names and quite a few are misregisters so to say, sometimes rebellious.

No accounts have been deleted since (the database did drop a few by itself though, but the reported ones could all be restored from backups).

The board was struggling (again :) ) a while back and I took a look at unused accounts (less is better for performane). There were over a 1,000, but none have been deleted yet.

This database allows to retrieve more information, like last activity instead of last post; don't want to delete the account of an (semi)-active reader.

There may be another pruning of accounts to clean the database, but that will only be never used accounts. The criteria would be 0 posts and last activity 6 months ago or something like that. Exceptions are hatefull accounts.

I don't have a problem with different accounts per person, but I frown upon the purpose they sometimes get used for (not rarely to dodge good manners).

What KukriKhan says sound correct: there are many readers, both registered and unregistered.

How many Jag? Not 10,000, but enough to read new topics about different subjects on a daily basis. Cheers to all the authors for providing content.