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Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 26690 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:21 pm Post subject: Deleting spammers |
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Hey Kal,
Is there a way to delete a spammer and all their posts at the same time?
I've seen this on other forums and just wondered if this form software can do this?
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Tom.W
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Deleting spammers |
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Hey Kal,
Is there a way to delete a spammer and all their posts at the same time?
I've seen this on other forums and just wondered if this form software can do this? |
Also make new members wait 10 hours before they can post anything
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 17850 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Deleting spammers |
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Hey Kal,
Is there a way to delete a spammer and all their posts at the same time?
I've seen this on other forums and just wondered if this form software can do this? |
I looked into add-ons that would do both as I wanted to be able to do exactly that but I couldn't find any.
What I do is click on their name to go to their user info. On that page (as you know) there's a little "X" that lets you delete them. Before I do that I CTRL-click on the "Find all posts by <name>" link and then CTRL-click on an posts returned. This opens a bunch of new tabs and then I go through an "X" on all 2-3. More work but I didn't find any good plug-ins or mods to allow "delete user and all their posts" for phpbb 2.x. If anyone knows of any I'm all ears.
Tom.W wrote: | Also make new members wait 10 hours before they can post anything |
No, that would be really annoying for legit users. If someone registers, it's because 99% of the time they want to post something. I hate forums where they require admin approval or there's a grace period. IMHO it wrecks the user experience.
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rule76
Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 41 Location: Junction City, KS
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject: Re: Deleting spammers |
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Kal wrote: |
No, that would be really annoying for legit users. If someone registers, it's because 99% of the time they want to post something. I hate forums where they require admin approval or there's a grace period. IMHO it wrecks the user experience.
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Agreed, what's worse is I signed up as a member so I wouldn't have to post five times before I could pm. Guess what, still gotta post five times. There are other benefits to being a member and giving to this cause is worth it. Well I gotta go spam some other threads. Thank you Kal for all that you do, especially the informative newsletters. Oh and to see all the cuss words!
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kal Forum Administrator
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: Deleting spammers |
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rule76 wrote: | Agreed, what's worse is I signed up as a member so I wouldn't have to post five times before I could pm. Guess what, still gotta post five times. |
Hi! Yes - sorry about that. Most people signing up as club members do so after they've been around for a while and have a few posts under the belt.
Quote: | There are other benefits to being a member and giving to this cause is worth it. Well I gotta go spam some other threads. Thank you Kal for all that you do, especially the informative newsletters. Oh and to see all the cuss words! |
Thanks for sigining up and the kind words! We really do appreciate it! (As I emailed you just a few minutes ago as well)...
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