How to Remove "Guest" Posts After Deleting Spammer

[Josh789]

Hello,

I deleted two spammers and thought I had deleted their posts, but it looks like they posted visitor messages to themselves that are now showing as Guest in my search modules.

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:



My site: http://forum.highonhockey.com/

I have remarked that unregistered users do not see those posts. Registered user do. I can't seem to find the option that triggers who can see those posts.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

[Josh789]

Disregard. Dumb question. Of course, I was able to click "View All" and then manually delete the messages.

[Wayne Luke]

Before you delete a spammer, you can view their profile in the AdminCP. Then using the Quick Links menu at the top of the left column, you can delete all their posts.

When you delete one of their posts, there are options to delete all posts by that user and to ban them at the same time. However, if the user is deleted this can cause problems since their userid will be gone.

[Josh789]

Before you delete a spammer, you can view their profile in the AdminCP. Then using the Quick Links menu at the top of the left column, you can delete all their posts.

When you delete one of their posts, there are options to delete all posts by that user and to ban them at the same time. However, if the user is deleted this can cause problems since their userid will be gone.

Uh oh. I must have fully deleted 50+ users this way. How likely, in what kind of circumstance, and to what degree can this cause problems for me? Is there something I can do to reverse some of the damage?

[Wayne Luke]

When you delete a user, their posts are set to UserID 0. Just makes it harder to track which user created which post. It doesn't actually cause problems for the system.