There needs to be a cull

gonna put this out there for discussion, there's no way there are 68,000 registered users (probably, I can't be bothered to check). We can start with the old, the sick and the infirmed.

On the front page it says:
Members: 5,804, Active Members: 4,108

Members = Everyone, even those who haven't activated email addresses.
Active Members = Those who have logged on in the last 3 months.

So we only have 1,696 members who either haven't activated their email addresses or haven't logged on in the last 3 months.

Of those 1,696 who is in what bucket?
Awaiting email confirmation: 0
Banned: 47
Registered (Nursery): 719
Regular: 930

So all who are inactive have activated their email address, and just over half of them are people who posted at one point but haven't visited in a while... that could be people who have just registered and posted so that they could PM someone and buy stuff from the classifieds, it could be because they were visiting and now they're not here they aren't interested in the forum.

Could be for lots of reasons.

Point is: There aren't as many accounts as you think, of those inactive they were never all dead accounts in the first place.

I'm not considering a cull, but even if I were to... it would be very difficult to decide upon a criteria to select those to cull without the risk of affecting those who have at some point registered for a reason.