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Gerry99111 said

ANDY00 you have not read my posts properly and their references are part of them and if you pressurise them, it is pretty certain they will leave and never come back. Plus genuine accounts are useful to spot fake ones using stolen images, but I already said that.

Use the site filter given for such a purpose and stop deciding what is best for everyone else

What's the harm in making inactive accounts invisible if not active? Why are you so determined to keep ancient dead accounts live on the site that have no pilots? Would make it easier to spot the lurkers :-) I'm not deciding anything, just offering a suggestion. You seem to be trying to enforce your idea as the only way :-) i accept your sugguestion, i dont agree with it but i accept it :-) 

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Admin I am not sure who this post is directed at but all I have said is the accounts should be protected and pointed out the specific tool that means these people never end up in searches.

Others seem determined to argue my points rather than respect them

Nobody is arguing, Gerry. We have different opinions, and we're debating the merits—that’s what a forum is for: respectful debate and discussion. You wish to leave ancient dead accounts on, and I'm simply suggesting we make them invisible if long-term inactive. If you don’t agree, that’s totally fine—I'd be interested to hear why though :-) people can have other opinions ;-)

What's the harm in making inactive accounts invisible if they're not active? It's not deleting them, just removing them from searches until they return—log in, become active again with nothing lost. Although some info could be out of date, it would all be intact. Most platforms do this—Facebook does it, Instagram does it—it’s kind of a website standard. It helps declutter searches and keeps information up to date and relevant.

It is 100% ok if you do not agree with me :-) 

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Personally I'd like the last logged in filter to go up to say three years. There are plenty of models who are still modelling and are active on Instagram. I came across a model this week who hadn't logged in for three years but her Instagram details were on the profile and she is still very active, hopefully a shoot will now follow.

Gerry99111 said

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There is a filter that allows you to hide profiles that have been inactive for periods up to 180 days.

You shouldn't need the site to do anything else if you use that and why should others who disagree with you have their view of the site be changed in a way they cannot stop

This is something that is probably not used by many, myself included as I've not needed it yet, so thanks for pointing that out, I was not aware due to laziness on my part. Nothing much else is really needed.

ANDY00

snip....Model-wise, if they haven’t been active for 2–5 years, are the images even relevant anymore?

I can hear the screams from from the precious when their treasured FPI links disappear, many images take more than 2 yrs to appear, so apart from removing previous it would also stop future ones, and we all know how important a currency they are to some.

This is a modelling networking and portfolio hosting site, why impose restrictions on models and not apply similar restrictions on all other types of accounts.

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indemnity said

Gerry99111 said

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There is a filter that allows you to hide profiles that have been inactive for periods up to 180 days.

You shouldn't need the site to do anything else if you use that and why should others who disagree with you have their view of the site be changed in a way they cannot stop

This is something that is probably not used by many, myself included as I've not needed it yet, so thanks for pointing that out, I was not aware due to laziness on my part. Nothing much else is really needed.

ANDY00

snip....Model-wise, if they haven’t been active for 2–5 years, are the images even relevant anymore?

I can hear the screams from from the precious when their treasured FPI links disappear, many images take more than 2 yrs to appear, so apart from removing previous it would also stop future ones, and we all know how important a currency they are to some.

This is a modelling networking and portfolio hosting site, why impose restrictions on models and not apply similar restrictions on all other types of accounts.

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I didn’t say anything about FPIs, so why should making an inactive account invisible affect FPIs? As I’ve mentioned, it won’t impact any of the portfolio other than hiding it from searches. If an account has been inactive for years, who’s going to be upset about it? :-) It’s not a punishment to hide a long-term inactive profile from searches. Facebook does it, Instagram does it—most sites do it because it keeps searches relevant to active users and declutters results. Plus, it encourages people to stay active in the community. It’s not a punishment, just common sense and an incentive. In my opinion, there are no downsides. 

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When you temporarily deactivate, you just have to log in to reactivate.  It would be pretty easy to send a message after some period of inactivity saying "we've set your account to temporarily deactivated, if you still want you it, just logon". 

Seeing who is complaining about lurkers makes me smile. 

CalmNudes said

When you temporarily deactivate, you just have to log in to reactivate.  It would be pretty easy to send a message after some period of inactivity saying "we've set your account to temporarily deactivated, if you still want you it, just logon". 

Seeing who is complaining about lurkers makes me smile. 

I agree with this up to the last part, - am i a lurker ? dont i add work every day ? :-) dont i contribute every day ? i am not attacking anyone

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CalmNudes said

When you temporarily deactivate, you just have to log in to reactivate.  It would be pretty easy to send a message after some period of inactivity saying "we've set your account to temporarily deactivated, if you still want you it, just logon". 

Seeing who is complaining about lurkers makes me smile. 

Common sense prevails, this added to the introduction of a 'selectable' time frame that Gerry99111 highlighted would cover most or even all needs without penalising anybody or removal of delinquent accounts until such time site owner decides such action is required.

I don't see the need to do anything - when I do a search I usually set the results to be ordered by "Last Active" and can then decide when to stop looking, sometimes I'll only go for a couple of weeks & sometimes a couple of months, alternatively I can set the "Active Within" filter if I want to sort by other means.  Sometimes I'll trawl through a load of images for a bit of inspiration - it doesn't matter how active the model is for that.  A while ago I saw an image of a model that hadn't been on here for ages, but on the off chance I messaged her & got a response... 

Very interested in this thread as it comes up again and again, bottom line if you are a model and want to earn money you need to be active to make money. In other business if you are not active you fail, old accounts serve no purpose other than boost members count. Surely there is away to just put the old in active a count in sleep mode and iglf the accounts pops back it wakes up.

Likely without a request from the account holder the website can't do anything , of course terms could be changed for that and sent out on emails. The best answer was given on page one of this thread already just set your search parameters.

I would imagine having them there also helps with quoting numbers. To say you've got X amount of members isn't technically incorrect.

It's sad when you come across a potentially great model but she hasn't logged in since before the Pandemic.

And yes, there's still lots of accounts with a few selfies on which the model has never done anything with; I refuse to believe they've not been offered shoots because most models I know have a very busy inbox.

I'd personally support a purge but the Last Logged In filter does its job.

When this site started they had a system where if a model didn't log in for a certain time they were sent a few reminder emails to log in, and if they still didn't their ports were (supposedly) hidden as inactive. If they logged in again it would show their port as active again, all good!

I have no idea why this was changed, but its incredibly frustrating to do a search and find there is just hardly anybody logging in. I think that PP are at some point where they just want to keep the numbers up now, and most people are using other platforms to find models and photographers.

Just for the hell of it I just searched now for any female model in a 30 mile radius to me and there are only 10 who have logged in in the last 6 months. one you get past that its a year, and then it just gets depressing.