Question How can I permanently delete hundreads of spam posts?

In Kunena backend there is the option to "Trash messages" from a user.

My problem is that I have several spammers who have posted hundreads of spam posts. Kunena justs deleted them. I want them permanently deleted because as an admin I see dozens of pages which block me from seeing previous posts.

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If there is no such option you must definitely add it in the backend, even with warning message, just to be sure!

If there is no such option you must definitely add it in the backend, even with warning message, just to be sure!

Such an option already exists. Mark all posts or topics in the trash and click on "Purge items", then you will see the warning: These xxx items will be permanently deleted from your forum! Are you sure?

In Kunena administration Security tab can you enable Allow moderators to delete permanently. Then you can permanently delete as moderator from frontend.

On the "Trash Manager" backend page, the "numbers" dropdown did not offer "200" or "300", just "100" and "all". For my server, 100 is OK, but "all" will cause 500 error because of high usage of CPU. I think you can off numbers such as "200" and "300" or allow admin to manually input an number.

Thank you.

If you choose "All" then mark for delete only a limited part of the results by holding Shift button. Or delete it in the frontend. Create a second Kunena menu item "Recent Topics" and choose "Select View = Deleted Topics". This menu item listed all deleted topcs per chosen time period and you can delete permanently all marked topics.

All above suggested operations require many steps.
I have a better idea:
Create a new button named "Empty Trash" at backend trash manager page, after click on this button, there will ask again (confirm), then, If the admin choose "Yes", then Kunena will AUTOMATICALLY delete those messages in continuous steps with about only 50 items in each step, to avoid high CPU usage and crush. The website admin only needs to click twice : one for the button, and one for the confirmation button. Then Kunena will do everything else to completely empty the trash, no matter how many posts were stored in the trash.

What do you think about this idea?