When to delete neighbors?

I hide neighbors that have been inactive, because I don't feel like deleting them right away. I have a full neighbor list, so it isn't a big deal to lose a couple for a time. If they come back, then I can unhide them. I have had some really good neighbors quit playing for a couple weeks and come back, so I like to give that opportunity to my neighbors.

I only check on my neighbor's activity if their town fills up (i.e., uncleared tapped buildings, which prevents me from tapping for money/xp/resources) ... I don't record who visits me and I know many of my neighbors visit every day while others have never visited. But if I go to a neighbor's town and can't find a building to tap, I go to the friend's list and check to see how long it's been since that neighbor logged in ... if it says anything more than a couple days out they go. (To be fair, since I only check them after their town fills up, it's usually that they've been inactive for a couple weeks).

If they ain't playing, then it's costing me time and frustration ... I go into a neighbor's town to tap a building and have to spend 5 minutes searching every square inch of their Springfield and Krustyland looking for a building to tap, and there's nothing available for me? Them thar's a bad neighbor, and I ain't got no time for bad neighbors.

I hide them, then if I either find someone whose town sounds like it might interest me or they do, I'll ask to add them.
If there is nothing left to tap for days on end, I hide them, only bump the ones that haven't played for months.
This event has been pretty boring for lots obviously because about 40% have not been clearing their towns so I've hidden them. Most of my neighbours are pretty diehard so they get the benefit of the doubt.
Then again, I've got the best neighbours ever cuz when they are active, most of them visit :) that's the hardest part to find.

Now!

Oops too late. Guess you're stuck with them forever. Unless...

"barryriddl474;c-1606893" wrote:
Since these events require logging in every 4 hours, I'll usually generously allow up to SIX hours of inactivity before I delete a neighbor.

But, but, but sleep and things like sleep! Gulp, man, you're ruthless.

Edit. There were a stream of laughing, crying faces at the end of my text but they disappeared ;)

I have about 8 neighbours hidden, haven't been playing for about two weeks, usually good tappers so will keep until about two months.

I tend to only keep ardent players who would visit regularly during events at least.

I tend not to delete them very often, but events are useful for figuring out who isn't playing. Sometimes near the end of an event, I'll go through and delete the ones that haven't acquired any currency throughout the entire thing.

But some friends I have kept around out of nostalgia, either because we helped each other a lot in past events, or they have such a well-designed town I still like to go and visit it.

I delete them if i struggle to find buildings to click on in my visits to them. really annoys me spending that extra time searching for buildings. I have a full neighbour list after going through a big clean up and re-stock last month. have 6 friends waiting but don't want to reject them as if i find some people who aren't playing/low level i'll delete them and add one from the waiting list :D

delete them before they delete you :|