Posted on: 04/10/08 04:47pm
By: SamF
I've done a search, but this doesn't appear under "spam" anywhere.
How can I delete all comments made by a specific user? I've gotten hit by a ton of spam, and will install the captcha, but for now need to get rid of it. I would have thought that maybe this would be accessible when I clicked on the Users admin, or maybe the Stories admin, but I don't see anything.
Thanks!
Re: Delete all comments by user
Posted on: 04/10/08 04:54pm
By: Dirk
There's a Mass Delete Comments option in the Spam-X plugin just for that case.
It doesn't filter by user, though, but by content. Since it's spam, you should be able to find a few spammy keywords or phrases that you can feed to Spam-X first. Then use that option to get rid of the comments.
bye, Dirk
Re: Delete all comments by user
Posted on: 04/10/08 05:20pm
By: SamF
Quote by: DirkThere's a Mass Delete Comments option in the Spam-X plugin just for that case.
It doesn't filter by user, though, but by content. Since it's spam, you should be able to find a few spammy keywords or phrases that you can feed to Spam-X first. Then use that option to get rid of the comments.
bye, Dirk
I tried that, and it didn't find anything. Maybe because it's all in Italian... :http://www.ai-tools.org/comment.php?mode=view&cid=24
Is there no way to delete by user?
Re: Delete all comments by user
Posted on: 04/10/08 05:29pm
By: Dirk
Ugh. xoomer.alice.it - I have had this in every blacklist on all of my sites for years now.
Does that not work? Add it to the personal blacklist.
bye, Dirk
Re: Delete all comments by user
Posted on: 04/10/08 08:00pm
By: SamF
Quote by: DirkUgh. xoomer.alice.it - I have had this in every blacklist on all of my sites for years now.
Does that not work? Add it to the personal blacklist.
bye, Dirk
Hmmm. I added "xoomer.alice.it" to the personal blacklist and tried "Mass Delete" and it said it found nothing.
Then I thought maybe it was looking for links that
exactly matched the entry in the black list, so I added a regular expression one: ".*xoomer.*"
I then ran Mass Delete again but it still found no comments.
Re: Delete all comments by user
Posted on: 04/13/08 04:17pm
By: Dirk
Hmm, that should work (the simple form, that is). The only thing that I'm aware of that's not working is a Mass Delete by IP address - that was only fixed in 1.4.1.
You did add "xoomer.alice.it" to the "Personal Blacklist", didn't you?
bye, Dirk