Hi guys, Recently I had the need to delete all posts from a user in a specific category. Leaving aside “debates” on deleting content I thought “oh, easy, just use the search and then pick all the results using the checkboxes and delete them”. However, it seems that doing so allows me to delete The…

I don’t have personal experience of these, but I believe you can ‘soft’ delete using the API - [image] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON ap…

Hi @JammyDodger Thanks for the links. [image] JammyDodger: If you can give a few more details about what you’re trying to achieve, people may have more specific tips. I just want to delete all messages from a user in a specific category. :stuck_out_tongue: PD: Maybe using the Console? I ju…

[image] Iceman: PD: Maybe using the Console? I just don’t want to nuke my DB… There’s some ongoing discussion about a similar thing in this topic: Delete deleted-posts permanently in bulk? Hopefully that can provide some inspiration?

Apologies for the necro, happy to create a new post if required. We have a politics category and some users would like to delete all their posts from this category for obvious reasons. Is there any way to easily do this for them?

A solution can be to use the Rais console. cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c Then you can follow the following form by filling the category slug and username. You copy the code and paste it into the console. Note: It doesn’t delete the first post to avoid the topic being deleted I…

Deleting all messages from a User in a Category

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Iceman (Iceman) October 3, 2021, 11:48pm 3

Hi @JammyDodger

Thanks for the links.

I just want to delete all messages from a user in a specific category.

PD: Maybe using the Console? I just don’t want to nuke my DB…

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