Please add the "Nuke spammer" functionality asap

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Mattias Nordin Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 30 March 2005 Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mattias Nordin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Please add the "Nuke spammer" functionality asap Posted: 14 December 2010 at 8:53am
	Thanks for a good forum. Im having troubles with spammers that is creating new accounts and then posting messages including links and then deleting their own account. It would be very nice to have a "kill all user posts"-button that removes ALL the posts from that user (IP address) + block it.

Mattias Nordin Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 30 March 2005 Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mattias Nordin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 December 2010 at 8:59am
	And why not add an option: If user deletes his user account then delete all posts as well. That way they cant hide themself by removing the user.

merlinmags Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 23 September 2010 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote merlinmags Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 December 2010 at 4:42pm
	Hmmm, that might not be desirable for all users. Some legitimate people might delete their own account. What we have is this: I made a small mod to our forum (v9.66) to add a "Kill spammer" option to each post. Then when we spot an obvious spammer posting nonsense with lots of dodgy links, we click once to: 1. delete all users posts 2. reset stats for each thread and forum affected 3. change user 'notes' to say "spammer" 4. set user non-active and suspend them It wasn't too hard, if you know your ASP. I did write a SQL stored procedure to make things a bit easier though. Nothing complicated though.

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 December 2010 at 8:59pm
	Some type of nuke spammer is on the 'todo' list for admins and moderators, with different selectable options, such as delete posts, suspend account, add admin notes, etc. Also lots of anti-spam stuff already written for version 10, such as a spam filter, disabling signatures, images and links for certain groups.
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