Now one way to effectively prune membership would be to sort by
join date.
Oldest members would be deleted unless there is evidence of
their recent activity.
There are other criteria, some less ethical than others.
For example, you can sort alphabetically and remove people based
upon certain names that seem to come from areas of the world
which utilize auto-join software to join hundreds of forums at
once, for whatever reason they do so.
It's not very nice but it's feasible.
Also, you can visually scan for profiles without profile
pictures, or with generic profile pictures and remove them.
It's also a generic, not-very-nice way to cull excess members,
but it can be an effective strategy.
Since nobody is being banned, they can rejoin and apologies are
usually effective... eventually tongue emoticon
So, there's always a way if it's what you want to do.
