Mass Delete a users post

[Felix J]

IIRC, you have approx. 100 posts attached to "Test".  For the amount of time you've put into this, you'd probably be better off just deleting the posts one at a time.

Yes I could, but that is not the point here. The point is that I can't delete all threads and posts together even though I should be able to do it regarding to the admin panel. This function won't however work.

Lastly, 100 posts well I guess I could delete one post at a time. However, what if the forum gets massive spam like thousands of spam messages. Then it's not that funny to remove each messages at a time...

CapadY, I can give you admin login via pm and then you could try for yourself if you like. Just to make sure I haven't missed to do anything. If I haven't then maybe this should be considered to be a bug?

[Farjo]

Remove posts made by this member: -> Topics and Posts

Did you definitely do this step as it defaults to 'None'.

[mashby]

Well, this is interesting. Here's the situation. You had a user named lorafrye who posted 102 messages who you likely deleted but didn't delete the messages (that's my theory anyway). So, I did this. Forum Maintenance > Members. Attribute guest posts made with "lorafrye" to "jasmin4628". Get this nice message "The maintenance task 'Reattribute User Posts' was executed successfully. " Now jasmin4628 is also a spammer. So I then next deleted jasmin4628.
Remove posts made by this member: Topics and Posts.
Delete!
Then all 102 posts were then sent back to lorafrye as a guest. Tried this on a couple of other spammer members you have changing the Remove posts made by this member to All Posts. Same results.

My next recommendation would be to simply delete the Quantification board, but that doesn't really explain why the above isn't working. Then I thought, hey, let's try this next:
Forum Maintenance > Topics
Remove Old Posts
Remove all topics not posted in for "2" days, which are:
Specific Boards (checked Quantization)
Any sort of topic.
Remove now
Get this:

Unable to verify referring url. Please go back and try again.

I'm scratching my head now too. Let's see if anyone else has more ideas/suggestions.

[Illori]

any mods installed? any manual edits to files?

[Felix J]

any mods installed? any manual edits to files?

All the default mods (that is included with the software) is installed and one other which I uninstalled due to missunderstanding of it's feature... I don't remember currently it's name though...

Yes I've made edits mostly to index.css and some to the index template (forgot it's name) (removing logo and adding path to new logo). Changed image files..

I don't believe I've made any edits that would cause this, but of course I can be wrong. Maybe this should also be tried on a just default install too? If it's not already has and there is no doubt that this feature which won't work on my site is in reality working on for example a default installation of smf v2.

[Deezel]

Does anyone think it would be worth it to load it back to before the last mod was installed?
Just a thought...

[Felix J]

Maybe the strangest or the most interesting thing... with it all is that there is no visible errors or messages whatsoever. You just get back to the home page of the site after clicking the "Delete" button.

[mashby]

No real mods installed...
Remove Child Boards    2.2
That's listed but hasn't been Installed.

I know you were editing template files and such, but I doubt you edited anything in /Sources, did you?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Had you given Admin privileges or FTP access to anyone (i.e., a mod author) prior to this problem appearing?

[Illori]

this issue has been looked into in the bug reports board, and found to be a valid bug.

[Leo2]

How to mass delete messages of a user from the list of his posts without deleting the user? Just some of his posts. Checkboxes in the user posts list will be the the best (like the list of posts in the forum)

Is there a mod for that?

I found similar topic here http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=261380.msg1703194#msg1703194 but with no solution as well.

[CapadY]

Leo, maybe you can open an open, new, topic for your specific problem ?

This topic is nearly one year old and I suppose it will be solved allready.

[bradl]

Here is the solution, just had the same problem.



Before you're able to delete multiple posts at the same time, you'll have to enable checkboxes. Follow the directions below to enable checkboxes.

Profile > Modify profile >Look and Layout

at the bottom you will see "Show Quick-moderation as" there will be a drop down box, select checkboxes then click change profile (of save pending on your release)

Now you can go back to the board and click the top check box to select all and then go to the bottom and select remove posts in the drop down box.

[Kindred]

that only helps if he wants to delete entire threads... deleting posts within threads that he wants to keep is more problematic.