By Gary Barclay on Wednesday, 06 June 2018
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Hi ,
We just recently got "invaded" by a spam user. They sent a whole load of messages before we got to them. We tried banning them but this does not remove their messages. Is that expected behaviour?

JFYI, it's not my expectation.

After I realised all their content was still live I went to the Stream in the Admin area, there is no Search/Filter there, so it took me ages to find their stream entries. Found them on page 12.

I then went to emails to see if I could delete those and just had no idea what option to select. I didn't know if I was going to be purging all emails or just all selected emails. The wording of these buttons is not clear at all.

I then went to the documentation to try and find out if I was doing something wrong and tried to search for "Ban".

I got one hit, for a holiday house in Banning. I would highly recommend you drop Google search and implement a proper documentation search, one that does not add its own unrelated results. It damages your brand.

In the end I achieved nothing. I still have the messages in notifications, I couldn't find anything in Documentation and we still cannot create a process should this happen again.

Just wanted to let you know my experience on this.
Gary
Hi Gary,

Thanks for your input regarding the ban process.

Banning a user does not remove their messages or stream items as it can be a temporary process. You should delete the user instead as this is the process that removes all items belonging to the user like photos, stream items, conversations etc.
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Wednesday, 06 June 2018 11:35
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+1 for getting read of the Google custom search as it never works for me (I actually find going to Google and doing a site:stackideas..com nnn search works the best!) It's a shame with such great products your documentation really lets you down at the moment.
Jay
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 15:18
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Thanks for the tip @itamarj.
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 15:57
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Glad to know that your issue is resolved Gary, and thanks for you input as well Itamar.

What Gary encountered is strange because I was not able to reproduce Gary's issue of getting unrelated results to the documentation while doing the custom google search at the documentation section.

Nevertheless, if you guys have anymore difficulties with the search under documentations, feel free to start a new thread so we can investigate it.
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 17:42
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