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DELETED My Account!!

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Topic: DELETED My Account!!

Posted By: JohnLug
Subject: DELETED My Account!!
Date Posted: 04 May 2013 at 10:38pm

Man, when I mess up, I REALLY mess up.

Went to delete a spammer this morning and lack of coffee..... Ended up deleting MYSELF!!

Now, all my posts are showing "Guest"

I doubt I can "re-add" my info, will probably have to open a new account.
But is there an "easy" way to transfer the posts in the "Guest" account to my new account?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 May 2013 at 10:43am

There is not a way to fix this once you have deleted the user.

If you delete a spammer they can just signup again and spam again. You should be suspending the sapmmer instead which blocks them from signingup again using the same username or email address.

If you are using the latest 10.15 version then the built in spam cleaner tool can delete all posts (if they have made less than 50 posts) and PM's made by a spammer, suspended their account, and block their IP all from one page.

The latest version also connects to StopForumSpam to block known spammers from signing up to your forum.

Forums using the spam tools in the latest version have reported drops of over 90% in spam within their forums.

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 05 May 2013 at 8:34pm

Out of curiosity (as I have never done this) when you delete an account, what happens to the posts?

If they are just turned into guest posts, is the "guests" name the same as the username of the deleted account or simply a generic "guest"?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 May 2013 at 4:41pm

When you delete an account all posts created under that account will be moved to the Guest account and will just have the name 'Guest' as the post name.

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