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  • The Gleam
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Feb 2011
    • 12242

    Are the piracy/snake-oil Spammer's accounts deleted once detected?

    Are the piracy/snake-oil Spammer's accounts deleted once detected?

    Of course the post is deleted, but is the actual member username/account deleted? Just curious, as there looks to be a couple of dozen or more added EVERY DAY these past couple of years and is getting WORSE.

    If that is not the case, pointing to the number of existing Calguns members for any particular purpose, which often comes up in discussions about voting, or in please to sing the Prop-63 petitions, it would give a false impression of just how much of strength in numbers Calguns could ever actually have.

    Given that there ever only appears to be some 25,000 or so members active, getting the riff-raff and useless flotsam out of the way and off the "record" would seem to be an appropriate endeavor. Otherwise, the false numbers give a skewed impression of Calguns' potential influence.

    I sometimes cite those numbers, but I wouldn't feel confident doing so if some 3 dozen "fake-members" or more are added every day for more than 2 years (or more) in time.
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    Originally posted by Librarian
    What compelling interest has any level of government in knowing what guns are owned by civilians? (Those owned by government should be inventoried and tracked, for exactly the same reasons computers and desks and chairs are tracked: responsible care of public property.)

    If some level of government had that information, what would they do with it? How would having that info benefit public safety? How would it benefit law enforcement?
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    Librarian
    Admin and Poltergeist
    CGN Contributor - Lifetime
    • Oct 2005
    • 44644

    Perma-banned, with all posts deleted.

    Usually.

    It's technically possible to actually delete the member record, I believe, but for your purposes the banned members are not counted in anything.

    I whack probably 20 per day myself.
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    Frozen in 2015, it is falling out of date and I can no longer edit the content. But much of it is still good!

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