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Re: Deleting Old Members [message #11931 is a reply to message #11930]

Tue, 22 July 2003 23:38

creamywf

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prottoss wrote on Tue, 22 July 2003 19:21

A moderator can delete messages, yes. But ultimately they can only do so 1 topic at a time at most and each time will go through a confirmation page. Only the administrator can potentially delete an entire forum worth of messages, and even then the forum and it's contents are only deleted if the forum trash bin is cleared (Deleted Forums).

Let's consider member XYZ who is a lurker. XYZ is registered because they want to be able to customize the view of the message, perphaps switch the forum into a different language and use many other features restricted to members. On technical forums many users will simply be lurkers because they are mainly there to read and get ideas with a relatively small number actually doing all the talking. And there are numerous reasons why a member may go inactive for an extended period of time.

Well, how do you propose to delete a mass group of members? Have a text box where you could paster their login names separated by spaces? Delete all members who did not visit the forum for X amount of days/months/years? Delete members who have not posted any messages? I am genuinly intrested in how would go about deleting a large group of users.

Just as Admins only can see invisible members, something could be set up that when you go into the "MEMBER" area, and Admin (and ONLY an Admin) could right click on a member name for options, one of which could be delete membership. There could be other member management options there as well. This would still necessitate going through the whole list, but wouldn't be as onimous as having to print out that list, then go to the admin panel and type in each name you want to delete, then go to the bottom of the form, click delete, and then start over for the next name. That list under "MEMBERS" is also sortable by number of posts, date joined, member name, etc., and could be a gold mine for member management functions. Plus, something could be added to the effect of a popup to verify that you want to delete yes/no before it is actually deleted.

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		Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:26
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:32
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:36
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 02:30
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 02:54
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 13:18
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 20:50
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: JamesS on Tue, 22 July 2003 17:27
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 19:43
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 20:51
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 21:51
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 22:32
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 23:21
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 23:38
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Wed, 23 July 2003 01:49
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Thu, 24 July 2003 22:29
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Fri, 25 July 2003 01:30
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: JamesS on Mon, 28 July 2003 18:09

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