Permanently Deleting Users and Their Content with 1000s of Posts

[robdog]

I know this has been asked before but I haven't seen a good answer. Has anyone actually done this successfully with the SPAM Management tool?

I keep getting a server response error...

 

[Jake Bunce]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/dealing-with-forum-spam.980/
> http://xenforo.com/community/thread...orum-now-it-doesnt-work-ok.33337/#post-380918

With such a large number of posts the spam cleaner may very well timeout. But those queries can delete the posts quickly.

 

[robdog]

I saw the information about a soft delete, but I am really looking for the permanent delete option...

 

[Jake Bunce]

I saw the information about a soft delete, but I am really looking for the permanent delete option...

Oh OK. Well the spam cleaner can hard delete if you configure it that way:

Admin CP -> Home -> Options -> Spam Management

You can try increasing the timeouts so it has time to complete:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...-nodes-updating-usergroups.28811/#post-333911