Another Forum Users Cleanup
Since I’m confident the new anti-spambot measures (for which I never made a news post) are extremely effective, I decided to do another cleanup of (the most likely) fake forum users. There’s rarely a way to determine if a user is fake or not after they’ve signed up, so I simply deleted all the users with no posts: 24 in total. This was a reminder of how poor spam management is in phpBB 2.x, as it’s deleting several users is quite an annoying process. There’s no “delete by criteria” option (like, say, delete all users with 0 posts). There isn’t even a “delete user” anywhere besides on the “user detail” page in the administration panel. What I mean is a link on the members list page (two click deleting: delete -> confirm -> back to memberlist) to easily delete members. A bonus would be a delete user link on topics as well, so you could easily delete a spambot user, including all his spam posts.
The way I delete users in phpBB 2 is to first to open the memberlist, look up how many posts a user has. If this is 0, I select the name, copy it, go to another window where the user management window is open, and paste it in the lookup field. Then press a button, wait a bit, click the “delete” toggle and press submit. Click another link to go back to the user management page, go back to the other window containing the member list. Then do that entire process two dozen times… I suppose I should count myself lucky to have such a small site - or perhaps I’m unlucky, since more fake users would force me to download and install an easy-to-use modification and I’d get it all over with in seconds 
