Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #3334, comment 4
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initial v1 3 3 * email token valid hours: 24 (default is 48) 4 4 * purge unactivated users grace period: 10 (default 14) - we had this really high before I think like 60 5 * cleanup inactive users: 730 days, this is any account that has no posts and no activity for past x days) I had this set to 30 -- I realize this was too low (we quickly went from 1200 accounts to 750 when I had made this change) so put it back at the default of 730 days.5 * cleanup inactive users: 730 days, this is any 0 trust account that has no posts and no activity for past x days) I had this set to 30 -- I realize this was too low (we quickly went from 1200 accounts to 750 when I had made this change) so put it back at the default of 730 days. 6 6 7 7 The issue with being too lax with these settings, is spammers often try to accrue a bunch of accounts they have created in past, and then use them after. I suspect this is what happened. But if we have another spam attack, I will take a closer look at the account before deleting and banning the ip and email.