Prunning members

[Melfina]

This may take a while, I've currently only started, but I have to do it one by one o_o; It seems they keep registering with nasty websites and I don't really want to have such things here.

So, I'm cleaning the users with no posts in the last month and new users with no posts registering with nasty sites.

Edit: Done, around 400 members were deleted o____o *wah*
I've also prunned the new members posts: more than 1,000 posts were deleted ^_~

[Blackstone]

Oy... that's no fun. x.x I've had to do that before, definitely no fun...

I'd offer to help, but I can't.

[Melfina]

I've just found a hack that did it for me ^_^! It deleted the members that registered more than a month ago and had no posts.

[Blackstone]

Ooooo, sweet! That's handy! xD

[PAche]

whaddya mean "nasty sites"?

[Blackstone]

Porn sites, or car ad sites... O.o Or drug sites... >.<

At least that's what I'm assuming she means, because I saw a lot of those on here. x.x

[PAche]

how'd you know they registered with those sites?

[Blackstone]

They just put those kind of sites as their website. Probably bots that do it...

[PAche]

i think that's a stupid waste of time and effort. =.= yes melfina i support you clearing them away :lol:

[Melfina]

Well, we have all protections you can have on phpBB (apart from hacks of course) so that bots can't register: visual confirmation and e-mail confirmation, so maybe they're not bots, and they're just people that think it's cool to register to advertise their nasty sites.

I think that if they were bots there would be hundreds of those instead of just a couple. The major prunning was for members that joined but never posted anything... and I had never done it since I opened this forum (which was a long time ago) so... o_o;

[Blackstone]

Mmm, very true... then I agree with PAche... 'tis pointless and a serious waste of time, xD

[Mizu]

This will be useful. Don't you hate it when they just register with those sites. XP

[americanangel]

what about the ones who just post ads to sites? or are those included in the pruning