Mass removal of bogus accounts

[dekaybrown]

I attempted to contact VBulletin, but since they are selling 5 now, they closed the 4 forum.

A feature that would be immensely beneficial would be the ability to mass prune bogus accounts based on various fields in the registration.

For instance, mass prune all accounts with the words (example) "Ugg Boots" in the home page field, or all accounts with the word "man" in the biography box.

With the onslaught of spam these days, the spammers are getting clever, floating IP addresses, cracking human verification, etc.. it is becoming more and more challenging each day keeping these wolves at bay.

Honestly, my wrist is starting to hurt from all of the mouse clicks needed to get these crappy accounts off my forums. in this example alone, it takes almost 800 mouse clicks to delete these users...



Imagine (I gave up) how much work I face trying to remove all of the 2642 bogus users with"man" as the biography. (nearly 8000 mouse clicks)

and these are the ones spam o matic miss!

[Max Taxable]

Mass move them all into a new usergroup, then mass delete from there.

With the onslaught of spam these days, the spammers are getting clever, floating IP addresses, cracking human verification, etc.. it is becoming more and more challenging each day keeping these wolves at bay.

Install THIS MOD to end all the bogus bot registrations.

[ForceHSS]

use mass prune option delete all users with 0 posts

[dekaybrown]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

use mass prune option delete all users with 0 posts

That also kills all the real accounts set up by people who lurk.

[ForceHSS]

Then see what the spammers have in common and use that

Install this
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...48042&page=206
Then do this
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=3087
And install this as well
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633

[dekaybrown]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Mass move them all into a new usergroup, then mass delete from there..

I just went over my usergroup manager, and I cannot find anything that allows me to mass move people to a new group based on profile entries???

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by dekaybrown

I just went over my usergroup manager, and I cannot find anything that allows me to mass move people to a new group based on profile entries???

Run this query change the x to the group you want them moved to

UPDATE `user` SET `usergroupid`='x', `homepage`='Ugg Boots' WHERE (`posts`='0')

UPDATE `userfield` SET `field1`='' WHERE (`field1`='man')

[dekaybrown]

Thank you very much...

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by dekaybrown

Thank you very much...

Happy to help

[Spangle]

This is the best spam stopper I've tried, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=289463