Eliminar todos los mensajes de un usuario en una categoría

[Iceman]

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 Topics and not so much the messages, even though the search is giving me the messages as results, not necessarily the topics (although they are there as well, yes).

Is there a “safe” way of doing this? At first I thought that I would be something very extreme to the DB (and I don’t discard that possibility) but since I can bulk-delete 50+ topics from the UI… maybe there is a way of doing that for messages only? (Or a way using the console, I just don’t want to “try” and blow up the DB )

Thanks!

[JammyDodger]

I don’t have personal experience of these, but I believe you can ‘soft’ delete using the API -

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@Iceman

(Or a way using the console, I just don’t want to “try” and blow up the DB )

And there are a few topics on ‘hard’ deleting if you search for ‘rails delete post’.

If you can give a few more details about what you’re trying to achieve, people may have more specific tips.

[Iceman]

Hi @JammyDodger

Thanks for the links.

@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.

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

[JammyDodger]

@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?

[Wingtip]

Disculpas por la necro, feliz de crear una nueva publicación si es necesario.

Tenemos una categoría de política y algunos usuarios querrían eliminar todas sus publicaciones de esta categoría por razones obvias. ¿Hay alguna manera de hacer esto fácilmente para ellos?

[Arkshine]

Una solución puede ser usar la consola de Rais.

cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails c

Luego puedes seguir el siguiente formulario rellenando el category slug y username.
Copias el código y lo pegas en la consola.

Nota:

• No elimina la primera publicación para evitar que se elimine el tema
• Si te diriges a una subcategoría, proporciona la principal, por ejemplo: parent_cat_slug/cat_slug.

Por favor, haz una copia de seguridad antes de realizar cualquier cambio.

Category
  .find_by_slug_path_with_id("=CATEGORY_SLUG=")
  .tap do |c|
    u = User.find_by_username("=USERNAME=")
    Post
      .joins(:topic)
      .where(user_id: u.id)
      .where("topics.category_id = ?", c.id)
      .where.not(post_number: 1)
      .where(deleted_at: nil)
      .find_each { |p| PostDestroyer.new(Discourse.system_user, p).destroy }
  end

[Wingtip]

¡Gracias! Esto es fantástico.