Well clearly we will need to perform some tests to see if something has been knocked but for the record I can tell you how it works…

When a new user registers they are given a post count of -1. When they first load a forum page, if the count is found to be -1 it is upped to 0. When they make their first post it goes, of course to 1.

So – the user selection in the spam reg tool will use a select clause of <0 for those who have never visited and <1 for those who have visited but never posted.

Now the only way I can see that not being accurate is if the bump from -1 to 0 is broken. As far as I am aware it is not but I will check it with some testing.

Question: is the post count field that this plugin queries the same as the post count field of WordPress or do you use a separate “forum” post count versus WP’s blog post count (if any)?  In my Dashboard’s Users screen everyone (except me, who has blog posts) has zero post count, including those who have posted in the forum.

Don’t know if this is relevant to the troubleshooting, but I’m including here my screen capture of the Spam Registrations screen as I see it — the output looks suspiciously broken.  Those two lines that start with “where the user has never authored…”) seems out of place.

I was referring to forum post counts.
And I am unsure what you mean by ‘out of place’. Seems to read Ok to me…?

Oh, ok I get it now (what the “where the user has never authored…” part means).

Ok, I’ve looked at Users->Member Information to figure out the pattern and here’s what I’ve seen:

1.  When I choose the first option (Never visited the forums), I get a list of a lot of people who:

   a. Have visited the forums but have no forum post

   b. Have never visited the forums

2.  When I choose the 2nd option (Visited but never posted in the forums), I get a list of people who:

   a. Have never visited the forums

You have only got to look at the logic in post 2 to realise that this is not really correct.

I will open up a ticket and get that changed. Needs to be changed to actual equals instead of less thans.

Ok, but apart from replacing less thans to equals, the logic seems swapped as well (as I described in my previous post).  The output I get from the plugin is:

Never visited — outputs both never visited and never posted (which seems to imply select clause of <1 ?)

Visited but never posted — outputs those who never visited (which seems to imply select clause of <0 ?)

at the moment using whichever criteria I have to say I am unable to replicate this… Still looking though

I have over 11000 spam accounts and can not delete them..or prevent them for that matter

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thanks

since we cannot duplicate this, lets check versions and make sure latest in use…  which sp version and which spam registration plugin version please…

No this is right. There was a bug. I have now fixed it for release in 5.2.6.

Of you REALLY have 11000 or so then I would not recommend trying to remove them in single pass. It could well time out with that sort of number.

spam 1.1.3, simple 5.2.6

i just cant find where to delte them

i would suggest waiting. WordPress 3.6 went to RC1 last Friday so it really is not far away now for release.

so what can i do now..

Andy’s suggestion was to wait for the plugin update that cannot be released until wp 3.6 is…

if you really need to do something now, it probably needs to be manually in the wp users admin panel… painful, yes…  sorry…