I found 3 people who haven't logged in, in over 2 months, and 1 staff member who hasn't logged in in a year and two months...

 

So I ask, why are these people still staff?

Most of this can be explained away by staff that login anonymously. They will not show as having been logged in since the last time they logged in non-anonymously.

It's a common practice that staff login anonymously, for many reasons, but one of them being that people can't gauge activity patterns and figure out when the best time would be to upload porn or something that violates our rules. Additionally, so that staff views don't show on profile pages for investigations and misc.

For a good example, you can see @willpv23's profile says last active Feburary 21, but you can see posts from Monday on the profile.

1 hour ago, Cyan said:

Most of this can be explained away by staff that login anonymously. They will not show as having been logged in since the last time they logged in non-anonymously.

It's a common practice that staff login anonymously, for many reasons, but one of them being that people can't gauge activity patterns and figure out when the best time would be to upload porn or something that violates our rules. Additionally, so that staff views don't show on profile pages for investigations and misc.

For a good example, you can see @willpv23's profile says last active Feburary 21, but you can see posts from Monday on the profile.

 

Had no idea that IPS handled anonymous logins like that, most forums, if you have that enabled, just completely hide that information from the public user.

 

Makes sense though, I noticed @LukeD's profile says he hasn't logged in in over a year, which might be the case as I can't find any recent posts either, but I could be wrong.

 

Thanks for the explanation!