It's left for the forum owner for me I have a free forum those inactive very users I will just suspend their account thou some of them do send messages to me asking me to lift their account and I will ask them to rather create another account
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If you do this then sure you will lose a lot of good members that may be inactive for a year and then came back later with good content after one year absence. If they see their account deleted they will not resignup again. This is bad practice.I think if you're sure the person is no longer active for a long period of time, like a year, it's the duty of the administrators to delete all such accounts, don't you think that will be better.
Yes it might cost you Losing some of your members, but mind you the goal to have active members, who can create and comment on high quality contents, not people that will be posting thrashIf you do this then sure you will lose a lot of good members that may be inactive for a year and then came back later with good content after one year absence. If they see their account deleted they will not resignup again. This is bad practice.
It is possible that people create high quality content then things happens and he is inactive for 6 months or 1 year so in this case delete his account cause lose of this good element if he thinks to go back.Yes it might cost you Losing some of your members, but mind you the goal to have active members, who can create and comment on high quality contents, not people that will be posting thrash
If you do this then sure you will lose a lot of good members that may be inactive for a year and then came back later with good content after one year absence. If they see their account deleted they will not resignup again. This is bad practice.