XF 1.1 Deleting all posts and users

[Brian O'Neill]

I installed xenforo for a client a few months ago, but they never got around to launching their forum yet.

Today I had a look at it and it has been slammed by spam. Now I have read the tips to reduce spam but what i want to know is there any way to mass delete users/posts?

Or is the only way to do it delete the database and do a reinstall?

Thanks

Brian

 

[euantor]

If they're all just spam users/posts, you could just truncate the users and posts/threads tables surely?

 

[Chris D]

There are very few mass action tools in XenForo right now.

There are add-ons that will do similar things.

You might want to check these out:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/mass-delete-spam-users.1245/
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/sonnb-messages-mass-actions.824/

A good add-on that has some spam cleaning tools is: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/8wayrun-com-xenutiles-tools.104/

 

[Brian O'Neill]

I ended up manually deleting the user and post rows from the database. I also added the site to www.cloudflare.com to help reduce the bots.

The developers really need to improve their management tools.

Thanks for the help.

Brian

 

[Jake Bunce]

There are some manual cleanup options in this resource:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/dealing-with-forum-spam.980/