Most of the Old Accounts that have written here on the Forum after a long time of inactivty for years was used from Hackers to spread Malware and Scams the last years.
It's not our duty to take care of those who are extremely naive and inattentive. By the way, how would they spread Malware? They can't upload malware on this forum and if someone puts some url in their signature that redirects to malware, I don't know, that's a different task and that can be done by any account.
- Old Accounts that havnt post anything or active after the last post in the last 3 years should be taken in some temp cooldown !
(this means before they can post again they should be going also to an overwatch by the Recovery Team)
We have 3,278,649 members. I also think that Recovery Team might be lazy (pardon me if I'm wrong) and they won't like this idea, nobody wants a further work.
I won't say they are lazy, they are still doing their job well, maybe they adding what op said to their task may limit this or another body would be required for these?
Slightly off-topic but I have a question. Did theymos change the password of satoshi's account? I mean, it could have been hacked, right? And theymos wants to keep this forum as an internet museum, so did he change the password of satoshi's account to make it resistant to brute-forcing? I'm simply curious about that.
Here is your answer:
Done. Lauda is banned in the same way as satoshi, such that it isn't possible to even log into the account anymore.
Perhaps it would be good to apply some sort of penalty to accounts that stop interacting for a long time (years), i.e., lower their rank.
Since sometimes it can be difficult to tell if it's the same person starting to post again or not.
Or a simple warning in their signature, on service, lending, or marketplace boards, indicating that they are interacting with an account that has been dormant for a long period of time.
This is not gonna work rather it will even limit legit users from returning, and other idea is also not ideal. Aside from those who got airdrop merit, many of these accounts deserves the rank they are currently, their contribution to the forum cannot diminish because they became inactive.
About the other, this doesn't stop for posting malicious link even in other board where post of such doesn't show.