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onlinestudent 
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 Topic: delete all topics posts by one member
Posted: 01 June 2011 at 6:53am |
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I have received around 500 spam posts form one single member and I want to remove all these posts.
I am doing it manually now banned this member but I am sure he will be using proxy to spam again.
now Can I get a script with which i can delete all his posts ?
will be thankful for immediate help...
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 7:51am |
Unfortunately you would need to go through and delete each post. I am surprised through that the spammer managed to post 500 posts as there is a spam flood control as well as other tools to limit spam and can only assume that these features have been incorrectly configured. Have a look at the Spam Prevention page for information on how to limit spam within your forums.
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 8:45am |
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thanks
what tool is being used for this work?
is it scrapeboard ?
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 10:02am |
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Web Wiz Forums has systems in place that prevent remote submission by automated programs and other bots but you do need to in sure that you are running the latest release to make sure you have the latest protection.
There is also a Flood Control which means that by default a user can only post 10 posts per hour, this prevents the forum being flooded by 100's of spam posts. Make sure you have not disabled this in the admin area and is set at reasonable levels that it would stop your forum being flooded with spam.
You should also not allow Guests to post and enable email activation of new member accounts, these prevent most spammers from posting.
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 2:41pm |
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Thanks Bruce,
yes I am aware of flood control.
I have disabled it because it also gets me lots of genuine participation,
guest posting is disabled and email activation is required in my forum.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 2:50pm |
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I would suggest enabling the flood control again and set it at a level that works well for your forum as you can configure both the time between posts and the maximum number within an hour.
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Posted: 01 June 2011 at 6:12pm |
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I'm with Bruce on his suggestions - but when we have a need to delete multiple posts by the same "member", this is how I do it (although with flood control, etc. - it's typically only a handful)
I do a search for all posts by that member.
For each post to delete, I right click and open in a new tab, go and delete it, close that tab, then go back to the original tab where I did the search, right click the next post to open in a new tab, delete that and close the tab, etc.
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