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Question [Merged topic] Can we delete all posts by a user?
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I've spent hours last night and this morning trying deleting spam that was automatically posted by spambots. Sadly, I've made very little progress since it takes so long to delete a single post.
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The problem arises because you've allowed spam on your site in the first place. If you are receiving so much spam that it's destroying the reputation of your site then you need to do something about. Part of the problem lies in the niche consumer sector that your site is associated with - certain kinds of sites seem to attract more spam than other kinds of sites. For example, sites that deal with anime - even in a serious, "mature" way - attract a lot of porn. So, if your interest lies in a user "market" that has a notorious reputation for attracting spam it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy and a daily occupational hazard that you'll have to deal with spam effectively or risk your site being "taken over". That's just the nature of the game, I'm sorry to say.
So, deal first with the source of the spam effectively and you won't have to delete as much. There are many tips on this website to help you handle spam. Please search around. There are many, highly effective ways of catching spam and only a few of them involve Kunena.
Most spammers do not add their rubbish to existing discussion threads: most spammers/bots create new topics for their rubbish. You don't have to spend a lot of time locating spam topics and you can delete several, together, at the one time. I've written this tip elsewhere on this site, how to delete multiple topics. Basically, you can use "Recent Discussions", look at the rightmost column (there's a checkbox), check the spam topics, use the left pull-down at the bottom of the age to Delete, press Go and you're all done.
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"The only truly effective remedy against spam is vigilance." - sozzled, 25 May 2010
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DTP2, thanks for the tip.
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The best reward that we can hope for is to receive the occasional "thank you" like you have done - we do appreciate the thanks - and if you can spare a few extra minutes to write an honest appraisal of how you feel we're going at the Joomla Extensions Directory , so much the better. The honesty in the JED keeps us on our toes.
I'm really pleased for you and I'm glad that we were able to help.
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sozz
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Maybe there is any hard way?? database edits etc?? anything?
thanks
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It's possible to do that in kunena 1.6, but in kunena 1.5 you need to delete the messages manually in database via phpmyadmin.
I don't provide support by PM, because this can be useful for someone else.
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I dont know alot about databases, but not afraid to experiment
Which table holds user posts?
I found jos_fb_messages_text which contains all the posts but is someone could help by explaining how to delete certain records
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