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Is there a fast way to delete spam replies? Data Pruning only gets posts..
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Geoffrey WIlson
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Mar 22, 2013 - 9:40 am

I will have to delete them manually then. I am guessing that the admin bar and akismet will take care of new spam after this. Maybe that is something you guys should develop because it is going to take me up to an hour to manually delete the post replies. 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 22, 2013 - 9:47 am

It would still need some sort of selection tool to enable you to get them all. Not sure how that could be done to make it quicker and both manageable to be honest.

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Geoffrey WIlson
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Mar 22, 2013 - 10:05 am

Here is the page if you want to see. I think I am just going to delete the whole topic and re-enter it all. Because It took me 10 minutes to delete half a page of spam so it's not worth the hassle. 

http://doggroominginhouston.co.....ng-process

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Geoffrey WIlson
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Mar 22, 2013 - 10:13 am

I was just noticing that each reply is labeled in order 1,2,3.etc.. Maybe you guys can make a plugin where you can delete say 2,4,6 or 2-10 ? 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 22, 2013 - 12:51 pm

That would be possible.
But what you could do is to use the Move Posts tool - move the offending posts to a new topic and then when moved delete the new topic. i didn't realise they were all in the same topic

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Geoffrey WIlson
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Apr 14, 2013 - 10:40 am

That worked. Thanks! :D Maybe someone can add that same window with options on the delete button so that you can mass delete reply spam. I should not have to much more spam problems since I reset all the rules and I am using Akismet but I still do get some mass spam replies. It would make it easier if the delete button has a number range you can delete.

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Mr Papa
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Apr 14, 2013 - 11:19 am

we have something similar on the list... just no eta...  but having to know the topic ids for deleting a range, could be tricky...

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