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.

[a9eel]

thx Vitaly keep the good work

[Vitaly]

Originally Posted by 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.

Sorry, no. I consider such methods as "abusing".

[Sunka]

Originally Posted by 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?

Installed and want to know answer for quoted question too!
And how to manually delete users? ==> Click on test and then delete users???

[Vitaly]

Originally Posted by Sunka

Installed and want to know answer for quoted question too!

There should be "Users Cleanup" crontab after import. Look for code in end of XML-file.

Originally Posted by Sunka

And how to manually delete users? ==> Click on test and then delete users???

Yes.

[Sunka]

aaaaa, I see now
So, by default it is run every 4 hours and 10 minutes?

Cpacibo!

[Vitaly]

Every day in 04:10. That's enougth.

[Frondy]

Is there any chance to add filter for members without e-mail?
I use one mod to remove nonvalid emails from users profile

Thank you

[Vitaly]

No such plans.

You could use email validation during registration, and the make rule to remove members from "validating email" group.

[Frondy]

Originally Posted by Vitaly

No such plans.

You could use email validation during registration, and the make rule to remove members from "validating email" group.

Yes, that is my plan, tu use mail validation, but it is too late for older members...

Thank you anyway :up:

[LI_Pets]

Not sure why you would want toss members away like this, it doesn't cost anything to keep them.

I have old members that haven't posted in a long time, but when they get the birthday email they come back sometimes.

I would suggest a reminder email based on criteria, they signed up that is NOT abuse.

Also rather then deleting anyone ever they should be moved to another user group like "inactive"

Never discard members totally IMO.