While I was peacefully asleep, around 400 spammers decided it was a good time to attack one of my communities. Admittedly, I didn’t have much spam prevention in place, so it was an easy target.

However, cleaning it up was painful - banning or flagging each member one by one took ages. It really highlighted how useful a multiple select option on the Members page in the Admin Panel would be, allowing us to flag or ban several accounts at once. That would turn a 30-minute job into a 3-minute one.

Yes, please!

maybe use the members search in acp, find and list all those who joined over night and then prune or move to a group

Just now, sound said:

maybe use the members search in acp, find and list all those who joined over night and then prune or move to a group

That really doesn't make much sense or makes the process easier. The best method is to flag them as spammer, not move them to a separate group.

4 minutes ago, Cedric V said:

That really doesn't make much sense or makes the process easier. The best method is to flag them as spammer, not move them to a separate group.

thinking was more about getting rid quickly of the 400+ using 'prune' than marking them as spammers

Yes, but then they wouldn't be reported to the spam defence and easily go onto the next community. I have no idea how effective the flag as spammer is or how quickly it works, but pruning them doesn't do anything at all.

This was raised internally, we're discussing it.

1 minute ago, Matt said:

This was raised internally, we're discussing it.

Appreciated. 🫶