Admin: user thread/forum unsubscribe

[Ville]

Now that the user passwords are no longer visible to the admins and thus it's impossible (or difficult) for an admin to log in as a user without reassigning the user's password, it would be great to have an admin feature to unsubscribe a named user from all forums/threads he or she may have subscribed to.

This issue has come up several times in last two weeks after I switched from UBB to vBulletin. Many users are not very technologically inclined and so they end up emailing me (the admin) asking me to stop the board from sending them notification messages of arrived posts. Using the admin features I can turn off their default to receive an email notification when they post/reply, but there's currently no easy way to unsubscribe the user from the forums/threads he or she has already been subscribed to. As far as I know there's currently only an admin feature to unsubscribe all users from a named thread(s). In this instance it's not very useful as I'd like to unsubscribe just *one* (defined by the username) user from *all* threads/forums.

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Besides this little annoyance vBulletin rocks!! :)

[Wayne Luke]

Since you have access to the database you can use a query to do this..

delete from subscribethread where userid=XXXXX

delete from subscibeforum where userid=XXXXX

[Ville]

Thanks Luke.. that'll do for now. I'll probably put together some simple page that will allow my users to turn off all email notification functions in one step (after entering their password).

[Fusion]

That's something I've looked for myself. Please, please say that's in v3. :D

[Ville]

I just realized there is already a feature to remove all subscriptions built-in to the board. The link is provided on the bottom of each notification email:


http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/member2.php?action=usub&type=allthread


It would still be nice to have that capability for the admins in the admin panel, though.