Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Users Cleanup

This mod helps to automatically delete user account upon custom-defined rules. For example, you can delete members, who didn't comfirmed emails after 3 days, delete members, who have zero posts and didn't visited your forum for a long time, and so on.

Any conditions can be defined! Cleanup can be done in both automatic and manual mode.

Difference between built-in vB user pruner:

1. Completely automated.
2. Comfotable management of multiple rules.
3. More flexible prune criterias.

Some stat for my forum (only zero-posts users were cleared):

- last user ID 50652
- total users left 19359

60% effectivity!!!

Installation:

Upload files and import product XML.

Configuration:

• Enter ACP and go to Users -> Cleanup.
• Create cleanup rules you needs, and save in inactive state.
• Test you rules. Do manual cleanup, if you wish.
  
• Activate rules (enable automatic cleanup), if you are satisfied with testing results.

Warning! Don't activate cleanup rules without testing! Don't forget to backup your forum database!

PS. Product is marked as beta, because i can't test all possible rules combinations. But those been used - works fine. If you have strange results duging testing, don't hesitate to post screenshot with your rule, and explain what is wrong.

Was NOT tested with 3.6.x & 3.7.x, but probably works.

This mod is delelopped here http://github.com/rcdesign/vb-users_cleanup . Patches are welcome.

[Vitaly]

Frondy, could you publish statistics for your forum? Last user ID and total members after cleanup?

[Frondy]

Originally Posted by Vitaly

Frondy, could you publish statistics for your forum? Last user ID and total members after cleanup?

20.354 last ID
10,880 after

I have filtered just members not active for 365 days and with no posts

[thedvs]

this is a big ask, but could you add an addon like a counter for the post thanks hack?
some boards, we just use the thanks hack so people dont post useless threads

so we can check 0 posts 0 thanks etc

[Vitaly]

I'm not sure, that will customize this mod in nearest future for third-party products. The only good news, that mod is reuseable

[TWTCommish]

Looks interesting; what's the difference between vBulletin's built-in user pruning options and this? More criteria?

[Vitaly]

Originally Posted by TWTCommish

Looks interesting; what's the difference between vBulletin's built-in user pruning options and this? More criteria?

1. Completely automated.
2. Manage multiple rules.
3. More flexible criterias.

PS. added to mod description.

[Black Tiger]

Thank you Vitaly, I was just looking for something like this! Marked installed!

[smirkley]

I like this.

I used to have a mod that removed unverified accounts after 7 days if the member did not verify by email.

What settings would I use to do the same with your mod?

[Black Tiger]

Question. How does this get automated? I just installed and configured and marked the rule active. But I don't see any crontab appearing in the Scheduled task manager. How is it made automated then?

[Alfa1]

Would be really useful to my board, if inactive members get reminder emails first. This would certainly increase the number of active members on a board. Just deleting the inactive accounts without trying to get those members active first, seems to be missing the boat.