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How do we easily get rid of people who register but do not activate their account? I just found out that I cannot schedule an event in the database because I am on a shared web hosting plan. I am seemingly getting a lot of "fake" registrants that are taking up space.

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Good question! First, I guess I'd say that if having too many database records might be a problem, you probably want to rethink your hosting situation. The space used by fake records should be one of the furthest things from your mind, ideally. I imagine my forums has 1,000-2,000 fake registrations. 

That being said, you can just run delete queries to remove fake registrations on a manual schedule of your choosing. But it's probably worth trying to implement a couple of things to prevent fake registrations in the first place (reCAPTCHA and then some). 

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