# Bulk delete of old and spread topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-delete-of-old-and-spread-topics/157707>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-delete-of-old-and-spread-topics/157707 "2020-07-14T14:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![klopsknoedel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/klopsknoedel/32/194126_2.png) [@klopsknoedel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/klopsknoedel)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-delete-of-old-and-spread-topics/157707/3 "2020-07-14T19:39:53Z")

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Hi,

yes, we want to unlist them and keep them from being indexed.  
This will be done once as we can adjust any upcoming “faulty” topic/post, which produces crawling issues, by hand.

Our forum is very old (started 1996) and got migrated a lot of times with weird/old syntax in raw-text and other stuff. We’ve collected all topics which are older than 2015, with less than 1000 views and pop up in Google’s search console as “faulty”.

For us it’s ok if these topics are just flagged as deleted but wasn’t quite sure if setting `deleted_at` directly is a good idea or if there are any dependencies we should care about. So if we should go the programmatic way.

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