Question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

Not unsubscribed users, but users who haven't logged on in over a year or some such metric.

As near as I can see there is no way of getting that information from a person's profile. Am I missing it?

Thanks, Steve.
posted by:
join to post
  • Patti
    Patti
    offline 173

    Re: question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

    Wed, December 26, 2007 - 2:36 PM
    Last login is kept internally, but not displayed on the profile. So is last visit to the tribe.

    Last modified is available on the profile, and might be a reasonable proxy. You could probably come up with a metric that includes last modified + number of friends, and if you wanted to be really fancy scan the tribe to make sure they hadn't posted anything in the last year.

    Manage membership allows you to sort by date joined, and you could probably use that as some sort of cross-reference though it would be imprecise at best.

    Any of this would take some clever scripting, though; Tribe doesn't provide the tools and I haven't heard of anyone else hacking them together.
    join to post

    • Re: question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

      Wed, December 26, 2007 - 2:44 PM
      I have a friend on my list who is relatively active on tribe, but has not updated their profile in over a year...............so, that may not be a good guage. I'm just sayin'.
      join to post
      • Allen
        Allen
        offline 50

        Re: question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

        Wed, December 26, 2007 - 3:03 PM
        Yeah, I post almost every day, and I barely touch my profile.
        join to post
        • Lettuce
          Lettuce
          offline 62

          Re: question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

          Wed, December 26, 2007 - 3:23 PM
          You will have to ask head quarters if they have the info as to who frequences where -I am not sure how advacned it is to look up IIP's for member vistis to your site . Just make it private for a couple of months and email all of your members asking whether or not they wished to be removed after two months if you get no replies then remove them -write down the member name as each one replies -if you hear nothing after two months delete them and if they are on holiday or something they will request to come back at that time because they will read through the missed emails.
          join to post

          • Re: question: Any tools for removing inactive users from a tribe?

            Wed, December 26, 2007 - 4:06 PM

            It seems there are no tools to do this. If they were to expose the Last Login date on the profile, that would certainly help. Instead of seeing it on the profile, I'd be happy seeing it on the Show Members display, that would be even better and probably easy to implement.

            I don't believe that Last Date of Profile modification is a good proxy for last login, even given augmenting it with last posting date, etc. Either way, that's a lot of script to write for little gain.

            True, I could send out a "reply within three months or you're gone" message, but that's rather heavy handed. The lighter touch of "It appears that you haven't been active in xxxx tribe for over two years, please either respond to me or I shall remove you from the tribe in 30 days. We'd like to have you back." would be a better message.

            It seems like the kind of tool that you don't want when you're in grow, grow, grow mode. However once you're a bit more stable, it would be useful. Ah well.


            I asked myself what my goal was before I started this, after all, what's wrong with a bunch of inactive profiles?

            Mainly I'm a believer in keeping things sort of tidy. Not anal, but neat. Having a tribe with hundreds of inactive members (out of about 2400) seems untidy to me and I though I could do the tribe a service by cleaning out the deadwood. This particular tribe is a social hub and people sometimes look through the membership scanning for people with similar interests, etc. Exactly what Tribe is meant for. However stumbling over a bunch of people who don't show up anymore isn't so useful.

            Thanks for the suggestions. Steve.
            join to post

Recent topics in "Tribe Moderators"

Topic Author Replies Last Post
how does one become a moderator? cathyq 16 April 9, 2008
Broken Tribe Photo Function Allen 4 April 2, 2008
what keeps a tribe alive... 1 March 29, 2008
is the mod present? 47 March 26, 2008