Mass delete users

SnakePromise

Some years ago spammers registered several hundreds of fake users on my forum. How do I delete them easily? A list of users with checkboxes to delete them would be ideal. I didn't find an extension which offers that, is there any?

luceos

SnakePromise do these users follow some pattern, eg mail address, IP or username? Might be simpler to use the database directly.

clarkwinkelmann

I don't think such an extension exists at this time.

If you already soft- or perma- deleted all their content, dropping them from the database using SQL or a tool like phpMyAdmin shouldn't cause any issue.

The fastest user-friendly way to do it is probably to use the FoF User Directory extension, so you can browse the list of users and click the 3-dot menu > Delete option of every user one after another.

If you have a list of emails/IDs in a text file or other database, you could write a script that hits the Flarum REST API to delete those specific users in a loop.

SnakePromise

luceos do these users follow some pattern, eg mail address, IP or username?

Unfortunately no, their usernames are just nonsensical strings of characters, as well as e-mail addresses (gmail, msn etc). They didn't manage to post anything, just registered while I wasn't paying attention. They did that at certain dates but legitimate users did too so I can't just delete everyone registered during that period.

clarkwinkelmann The fastest user-friendly way to do it is probably to use the FoF User Directory extension

Thanks! I'll look into that. But it would be really nice if in the admin#/users list there were "Suspend" and "Delete" columns as well besides "Edit".

Braden

I had the same problem. What i did was going through each profile, lucky the profile's link's do have a blank target. It helps to do the deleting quickly where there's no other option.

It will be nice to have extension for deleting un-activated users, where the extension deletes when it reach a certain period, (like 30days) also it sends email for the reason.