My community is approaching about 5k users, but we have a growing number of dead accounts. Accounts that haven't been logged into or used in up to 4 years.

I'm always tempted to delete or remove th...

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My community is approaching about 5k users, but we have a growing number of dead accounts. Accounts that haven't been logged into or used in up to 4 years.

I'm always tempted to delete or remove these accounts, but I can never decide for sure. We've had members pop back up after years of inactivity and I've always seen having to re-register as a barrier to re-entry; a potential stumbling block to getting involved again. At the same time though, seeing profiles that obviously haven't been used in a long time isn't great for morale.

What do you all think?

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Measuring An Online Community: Master Your Data to Gain an Unfair Advantage http://cultivate.ning.com/ning-blog/measuring-an-online-community-master-your-data-to-gain-an-unfair-

Great knowledge sharing from Richard Millington @Feverbee http://www.feverbee.com/2013/10/the-problem-with-providing-all-the-answers.html

"Build communities for your unique audience, not for your company." - Richard Millington - http://www.feverbee.com/2013/09/multiple-communities-within-the-same-company.html

I am really starting to like the 4chan founder. He does a very good talk about the fact that neither facebook or g+ are doing a good job of handling online identities. In fact he praises Twitter ...

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I am really starting to like the 4chan founder. He does a very good talk about the fact that neither facebook or g+ are doing a good job of handling online identities. In fact he praises Twitter for allowing people to have multiple accounts and pseudonyms which allow people to identify and share as who they want to be rather than the name that their parents gave them.

I agree in some context pseudonyms are not the best option. In fact we do use LinkedIn as a resource to learn more about one's identity, but do services such as g+ and facebook have to insist on people maintaining real identities?

What are your thoughts on this?

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Looks like the Atrium group is a stage 2 going to stage 3 and the Premium Tribe is a stage 3 going to stage 4. The question is: Will our tribe change the world?

Here's a great chart of options:

http://www.boxuk.com/blog/monetizing-your-web-app-business-models