# Deleting lots of (but not all) posts from a user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014年一月14日 18:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958 "2014-01-14T18:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\
**Post date:** [2014年一月14日 18:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958/1 "2014-01-14T18:46:49Z")

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On our forums we get users occasionally who come in when I’m not watching (i.e. at night, etc.) and post a ton of marginal or questionable posts. Right now its a real pain to moderate and delete these because you have to go to every single message, open the message and delete them.

It would be really, really nice to be able to simply delete all the message directly from the person’s profile view. It would change a 10 minute task down to 30 seconds or less - a huge improvement.

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2014年一月14日 18:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958/2 "2014-01-14T18:49:32Z")

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Have you tried going to the user’s page and clicking the `delete all posts` button?

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**Author:** ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\
**Post date:** [2014年一月14日 18:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958/3 "2014-01-14T18:53:05Z")

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But its not “all posts” that i want to delete - its a subset - perhaps 20 or 30 %.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2014年一月14日 18:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958/4 "2014-01-14T18:54:39Z")

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Not a bad idea but the user profile page is not really structured to take action on the items it is displaying at the moment.

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**Author:** ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)\
**Post date:** [2025年十二月4日 11:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-lots-of-but-not-all-posts-from-a-user/11958/5 "2025-12-04T11:09:21Z")

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