How to bulk-remove approved users?

[u/BreakYoBaals]

I have a somewhat unique case.

Previous mod team approved thousands of users and I would like to remove their approved status.

I've already manually removed a couple thousand at least, but there are still so many.

Is there any way to do it all at once?

The reason I would like to do this is the sub was seemingly being used to run scam/spam stuff and I just want to start over without that influence.

Thanks in advance.

[u/BreakYoBaals]

I did find something helpful on the "app store."

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/deapprover

I think this will do a lot of the heavy lifting for me after it hits 1 month (minimum trigger length).

After that, I will use the script option shared in the comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/s/qX0bnidJwK

[u/juleznailedit]

There isn't a way. Each by each is the only way.

[u/MrPromotor]

You can do it with a script, don't know how to do it exactly but I asked chat gpt to help me to built a verification system to verify some users in some subreddits I moderate, the script approve and give a verified flair when I input an user, and I did other script to un-approve( no ban) the same users but in both cases the script ask me the users, in this case don't know if there's a way to un-approve all of them, but you can try, BTW there's a limit of requests, how many users do you plan to remove?

[u/BreakYoBaals → u/MrPromotor]

No way to tell, but I'm guessing at least 5k more to go.

[u/Taliskerman → u/MrPromotor]

The required script is on this post below. It worked for me fine when I used it a couple of years ago.

I removed thousands of users this way and it took a couple of hours for the process to finish.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/1bg9v9m/guide_how_to_massremove_approved_users_from_a/

[u/BreakYoBaals → u/Taliskerman]

Thank you! I will look into this option.

[u/thepottsy → u/BreakYoBaals]

That does look promising, but also don’t be surprised if it fails. Reddit has mad a lot of backend changes in 3 years, so whatever that was able to do then, doesn’t mean it will work now.

[u/Taliskerman → u/thepottsy]

The script manipulates the front-end web UI as if it were a human. The back end shouldn't matter.

[u/MrPromotor → u/Taliskerman]

This is a huge help, thanks for sharing this

[u/thepottsy]

There is not a way to do that to my knowledge.

[u/Holdmywhiskeyhun]

One by one

It sucks, but unfortunately it's the process

[u/SugarBabyVet]

Pour of cup of wine/coffee and get to clicking my friend