Bulk message deletion?
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Whilst trawling through the old spam messages in the "free tools" forum which have been incorrectly brought across, I found several users who had managed to post multiple messages - in one case, 61 spam messages.
Opening each message in turn, scrolling to the bottom of the message, opening the menu, and selecting "delete" => "confirm" takes some time, even for a relatively small number of messages. And there's every chance of missing the odd message, especially if they all have the same or similar subjects.
When we get the next spam flood, with bots posting thousands of spam messages every second, that's obviously not going to be workable.
Is it possible to have a "delete all messages" option for permabanned spam accounts?
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Whilst trawling through the old spam messages in the "free tools" forum which have been incorrectly brought across, I found several users who had managed to post multiple messages - in one case, 61 spam messages.
Opening each message in turn, scrolling to the bottom of the message, opening the menu, and selecting "delete" => "confirm" takes some time, even for a relatively small number of messages. And there's every chance of missing the odd message, especially if they all have the same or similar subjects.
When we get the next spam flood, with bots posting thousands of spam messages every second, that's obviously not going to be workable.
Is it possible to have a "delete all messages" option for permabanned spam accounts?
@Richard-Deeming There's an option for deleting the user and all of their content, if you go to the user the gear at the top right has an option to delete account and content. Obviously this is only for admins/moderators. We'll take a look in the free tools also and clean that up
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I don't see that option, so I'm guessing it's not available to me:
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I don't see that option, so I'm guessing it's not available to me:
@Richard-Deeming I thought you had access to that, apparently it's an admin only feature. If you find someone with lots of spam posts, flag them and we can delete them so you don't have to manually go through that process.
