Club with no members: should they be deleted?

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brother7

https://www.chess.com/club/devil-dogs-past-present-future

While searching clubs, I found one with no members. Shouldn't clubs with no members be deleted? Who should I report this to?

JudgeCat
brother7 wrote:

https://www.chess.com/club/devil-dogs-past-present-future

While searching clubs, I found one with no members. Shouldn't clubs with no members be deleted? Who should I report this to?

I wonder why the owner would abort their own club? Yes, it is a waste of time to just leave a club with no members active. But I don't know who I could refer you too. Maybe just leave as is?

brother7

From a housekeeping point-of-view, it makes sense to delete clubs with no members to prevent users from wasting time by joining, as there is no admin to approve join requests.

Instead of dealing with zero-member clubs individually, perhaps chess.com should run a monthly maintenance routine that would purge all such clubs all at once.

Martin_Stahl
brother7 wrote:

https://www.chess.com/club/devil-dogs-past-present-future

While searching clubs, I found one with no members. Shouldn't clubs with no members be deleted? Who should I report this to?

 

Clubs don't get deleted, just closed. But you could always report to support and see what they say.

https://support.chess.com/article/346-contact-us

brother7
Martin_Stahl wrote:

Clubs don't get deleted, just closed.

If they get closed, then I wonder why there is a Join button on the club I linked to.

Lc0_1

lmao 0 members

Martin_Stahl
brother7 wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:

Clubs don't get deleted, just closed.

If they get closed, then I wonder why there is a Join button on the club I linked to.

 

I'm not saying a zero member club gets closed, just that the site doesn't delete clubs.

 

It's also possible that the club owner will come back and want to have the club. I found out the club owner's account is closed, that why it doesn't show as a member, but still actually is.