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[IJBSRR_Journal]

@asmecher @acahya

There is Showing unexpected element location users & Roles. It in increase Automatically

[asmecher]

Hi @IJBSRR_Journal,

It looks like you are getting a LOT of spam user registrations. I would suggest some combination of using ReCAPTCHA, turning on require_validation, and periodically reviewing and removing inactive users. There are other threads on the forum that might be helpful. (In the future, please include the application (OJS, OMP, or OPS) and version with your posts!)

Thanks,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[IJBSRR_Journal]

@asmecher

How to Remove LOT of spam user registrations?

[asmecher]

Hi @IJBSRR_Journal,

First, take a good backup!

For a list this long, I would not recommend attempting to go through the list manually. I would recommend going to the database directly (e.g. using phpMyAdmin) and looking at commonalities in spam users. For example, I see lots of domains like rediffmail.com and yandex.ru. There are probably thousands of users with these domains.

Get the user IDs of all matching users…

SELECT user_id FROM users WHERE email LIKE '%@yandex.ru';

…then, on the command line, use tools/mergeUsers.php to get rid of those accounts in batches.

See e.g. this thread for more ideas.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[IJBSRR_Journal]

@asmecher

Thanks, We will Removed all Spam but again Coming slowly, Totally not Stop