5000 entries
We just hit another milestone today, hitting the 5000 entry mark. This is a good sign that people are coming back and entering subsequent months after initially signing up.
The lucky 5000th entry:
We just hit another milestone today, hitting the 5000 entry mark. This is a good sign that people are coming back and entering subsequent months after initially signing up.
The lucky 5000th entry:
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:12 am
Please add options to filter out users who (A) haven’t updated for a long time (say, 3 months) and/or who (B) have a small number of total entries (say, 3 or less). This would make it easier to ignore the fake users.
April 3rd, 2006 at 8:30 am
Hi Captain,
Great minds think alike. We’ve put together a basic outline for this, but haven’t been able to implement it yet. I think it’s reasonable to expect it in the next months as its becoming very important. Here’s the outline:
* Expire users after ALL of the following
- Only a single entry
- No net worth updates in last n months
- No logins in last n months
* n can be what? 3, 6, 12 months?
* Expire means user will be removed from public listings and not included in statistical calculations
* Send an email reminder 1 week before user expires
* Add “Flag this profile” and at some number of flags user can be expired
* Email reminder applies to both standard expiration and flagged expiration.
I’m leaning towards 6 months to start and perhaps dial it back to 3 as usage increases. These expired users would still have complete access to the system, they just wouldn’t be included in the listings or the stats. As soon as they updated, then they can be re-included. What do you think?
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:56 pm
If the user has to meet all three of your criteria (one entry, no recent updates, no recent logins) simultaneously, any user who had made 2 updates would never be filtered. But if they’re both from last summer, I’d rather ignore them.
I was envisioning a filter just for browsing the profiles, and in that case the criteria could be specified by the user instead of hardcoded. Using the filter for your statistics too is a more interesting puzzle because you’d have to find reasonable one-size-fits-all criteria.
The filter I’d personally like would be to ignore users unless they’ve updated at least 2 of the past 3 months. (Yes, new users would be invisible.)
April 18th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Ryan,
That sounds like a reasonable start. I think the Captain is a little overboard. New users are going to want their data available to get them to use the site. Alot of people may not bother entering data if it takes a couple of months to show up.
April 29th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
tok,
I’m not suggesting that my preferences should be the default. I’m just stating the filter criteria I’d personally like to use.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:21 am
Ryan: When do you plan to start filtering? Seems like a lot of junk entries are out there.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
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