Kick users without any items?

Is there any plan to delete users without any items after a specific time? Personly i get a little bit irritated cause it seems that more and more people using this site only to get in contact with other people and without motivation to add/rate/review anything.

The sooner, the better. One of the forums I visit deletes all members who don't have any posts after a 3 month period (I think) and it definately works well. Though, if they are refered through a friend would the user's points be taken away? I think they should since this could lead to abuse if the same referal/joining process is repeated. Or perhaps the deleted user's email address could be stored so that no new points would be granted for refering that person again?

Sorry, I disagree on this suggestion. Unless these 'non-participating' users are spammers or frequent abusers, I see no harm in leaving them registered. Maybe they tried Listal, and weren't too interested right now to try it out, but perhaps an email reminder in a few months about some new features at listal might cause them to check out the site again.

Does a store kick you out if you always just come in and window-shop and never buy anything? of course not. because they hope eventually one day you might become a customer.

No, but they do look at me dodgily...

E-mail reminders would be good, but plenty of sites delete members after long-term absenses (Neopets, FaceParty, various forums, etc.).

Ok, here's a more cooperative idea:

After you haven't visit listal for about 3 months your profile becomes inactive. This means that your user, your data, simply everything will not be displayed on listal anymore until you visit listal again.

I think email reminders are a great idea and if an account is going to be set to inactive maybe that person should receive a warning email as well. I have a forum and the users have cognitive problems which basically means (apart from a lot of other things) that their memory just isn't what it used to be.

Basically sometimes people just forget

no, i really don't agree with blocking users, especially on 3 months time frame. I've got some friends added from late last year, and I valued their ratings at the time, and they haven't been on the site since february. It'd hate to see me lose that person's ratings just because he stopped visiting. If i didn't want him, i'd remove him from friend list, but even if he never visits listal again, I still want to know what he rated movies on his list.

I think only kick people that contribute bad content to listal (spam, abuse of image uploads, etc,), and keep everyone else's account untouched, even a year or two down the road.

Variation:
After you haven't visit listal for about 3 months your profile becomes inactive. This means that your user, your data, simply everything will not be displayed for non-friends on listal anymore until you visit listal again.

I still respectfully disagree, ipanema.

Every input from people is valuable for the whole community, so even if someone logged on, and rated 3 movies, and never showed up again, I still think it would be a shame to lock out that account and lose their ratings.

The only accounts I could accept 'deleting' or 'locking out' are ones that have rated NO items, added nothing to their list, and only posted a few times, usually something like 'waddap ya'll! yo sexy bitchas over here!'. Those people I'd like to see removed eventually. lol

but even if someone logs in and does one review and never shows up again, if that one review could be helpful to one other person, 3 years later, then its still worth keeping their accounts active.

I guess I just dont see the point in all this. Its not like Tom is needing server space, and its not like 'dormant' accounts slow down the site. after all, users are just another entry into the database.