Trash or delete

[Martee]

When inevitably, you get the spambots flooding in or members creating useless posts, what do you with them?

Do you delete them so that your stats are more 'original' so to speak or do you move them to trash so that no-one can see them but you keep your lovely stats. Personally, I trash member posts but delete spambot ones.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I tend to keep all content in a "post storage" which is a hidden board I put on all my forums. When a user chooses to delete their posts, it gets sent there as well That is due to abuse and from my forum experience, it is well worth it

 

[Alex1]

When mass amounts of bots and spammers register, I remove all of their accounts because I like to see realistic stats.

 

[xpl0iter]

@Shawn why to do that?
I mean what is the point of keeping the spambots posts?
Is there any chances that it will come handy in the future?

 

[Sam1]

In SMF it's extra easy, you just delete their topics and posts when you delete them. I have to agree with xpl0iter though, personally I hate it when there is a lot of topics that are stored- and not deleted when many of them could. And why on earth would you keep spambot posts? All it does is artificially increase your post count- which I am firmly against. Just before this forum started, I deleted a heap of admin posts and made them into one thread- just because I hate artificially increasing a post count.

The other thing is, some members don't know that their post has been "trashed" and would think it had been deleted. It kind of defeats the purpose then.

 

[Martee]

it does depend though. With Spambot posts, there is obviously no need for them on any forum but in the case of member posts. I think people generally keep them so that either the members don't get mad over their post count going down due to deleted threads/posts or for reference at a later date.