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I was doing some due diligence for a company, and they wanted to know the number of users that another company had.

As I was analyzing data, I started to get morbid. This community had been around for quite a long time, and there was no cost to be a member.

This means that a lot of users may not actually be on the other end of the phone. Many of them will statistically be dead. Dead as a door nail.

The company also really liked to boast about the number of registered users, and cares maybe more about the quantity than the quality. This means that they never clean out their user database, which would safe them resources, be cleaner, but would lower the number.

So, here is to the dead users that live on in their mortal memberships.