Hello, I have raised this request in the past, I would find very helpful if in ACP I could mass prune/delete validating spammers. It happened to me that the site is attached and I had to deal with manually deleting 200 spammers. Currently I don't see an option to select all records on a page and take a mass action with them. Would more members benefit from this feature?

You could do that but it's quite tricky. 😉

Go to ACP members list and use search option but do not fill any field. You'll see something like this:

Then click on BANNED and Prune Members Found:

 

That URL should be something like  this one:

https://boardurl.com/admin/index.php?app=core&module=members&controller=members&do=massManage&action=prune&members_name[0]=c&members_name[1]=&members_member_id[0]=any&members_member_id[1]=0&members_email=&members_ip_address=&members_joined[start]=&members_joined[end]=&members_last_post[start]=&members_last_post[end]=&members_last_activity[start]=&members_last_activity[end]=&members_posts[0]=any&members_posts[1]=0&filter=members_filter_banned&members_allow_admin_emails=a&members_field_6=&members_field_10=&members_field_5=&members_field_8=&members_field_1=

As you can see there is this part:

&filter=members_filter_banned&

Which mean it would prune banned members.

 

Note: please MAKE SQL BACKUP FIRST!!

Thank you very much it seems to be a good work around!

I would still vote for having something more intuitive as a native function for admins.

Many thanks. 

Previously on that screen/section there would be a 'select all' option on the right, with tickboxes

You could then just go down the list, check the tickboxes and press delete

It's something that you could also use to mass approve registrations

I really miss it. It was so useful as a timesaver

Bumping this bad boy.

Pages of spam accounts to delete one by one - with a drop down menu to boot. 😡

Why on earth is "delete" hidden in the drop down menu?