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Ok, so we have ~6700 users here in the forum. Looking at just the ones that registered recently, almost all of them all spam users who either post their sh*t here or refer to to dubious websites in their profile. It isn't helpful to keep these alive here.
Is there a possibility to delete them, like with a rule? Checking the websites associated with the accounts could also hint to which user to delete. This would slim the database and also give a bit security, because the malware-links were gone.

Thankfully I haven't seen much spam in here and as a new user I find the forum incredible valuable.
Looks like it dates back to 2003. Almost 20 years worth of knowledge is worth a lot!
I'm sure the team has their backups.

Making the registration process a little more difficult will help reducing number of new bots.
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/

...also spammers, like AmersonTommy right now, post their sh*t multiple times. So, if someone posts the same more than once within 24 hours -> autoban until a moderator reactivates the account or, most likely, deletes it.

yes there's a lot of zombie accounts, mods can only ban users though.

phpBB by default forces new users's posts to be approved by a mod. The first 3 by default. It seems that PB forum does not have this setup?

idle wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:53 pm yes there's a lot of zombie accounts, mods can only ban users though.

i deleted a lot of "0-post" -users , who never logged in after 2021.

That's great news. Maybe the ones with the links to spam websites can be deleted too.

Rings wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:59 pm

idle wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:53 pm yes there's a lot of zombie accounts, mods can only ban users though.

i deleted a lot of "0-post" -users , who never logged in after 2021.

You must have extra powers assigned, it's the same way you can delete all a user's posts in one hit.