How to remove dogs from a VKontakte group

New users on the VKontakte social network are registered every day, but at the same time, on a regular basis, people leave the site, deleting or abandoning their accounts. If an account is idle for a long time and the social network suspects that it is “dead”, after a while it may be blocked or deleted, especially if there are complaints about it. After deletion, the VKontakte account becomes the so-called “dog”, that is, an image of a branded sad dog is set on its avatar, and all information about the user from the page is erased. Such “dogs” in the VKontakte group create a population, but can cause negative feedback from users if there are a large number of them. In this article, we will look at how to remove them.

Where do the "dogs" come from in the VKontakte group

As noted above, "dogs" are deleted accounts. Most often they appear if a person used the service to cheat users into the VKontakte group. Often in the early stages of a community's existence, cheating is the best way to start and recruit some numbers, which users resort to to develop their group.

Please note: During cheating, users from hacked accounts most often join your group. As a rule, the same accounts are also used for other groups, not only for joining them, but also for writing comments, reposts, various ways to promote a service or product. That is why the accounts of such users quickly turn into "dogs" after they receive several complaints for their actions.

How to find out how many "dogs" are in a group

If you have a large group, it is difficult to determine the number of remote users in it “by eye”. There is a special tool that allows you to find out how many blocked and deleted users are in the community.

This application is called "Search for "dead" members and subscribers." To use it, you need to be an administrator of the group in which you want to check. Select one of the groups that you want to check in the list of groups, and also set the accuracy (the more accurate the check, the longer it takes). After that, click "Scan" to start scanning the group.

Please note: Depending on the size of the group, as well as on the selected accuracy, the verification time will vary. With normal accuracy, checking a group of 150-200 thousand people will take about 5 minutes.

Upon completion of the check, you will see a detailed report that indicates how many “dead” accounts are in the group. At the same time, you can see the division into deleted and blocked users. In addition, if you click on the number of participants that are marked "dead", their full list will be revealed.

How to remove "dogs" from the VKontakte group

There are several ways to remove "dogs" from a VKontakte group. In this article, we will consider three options, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Manual removal of blocked users

If a user is deleted, a “dog” appears on their avatar. Accordingly, it will not be difficult to find him in the list of group members. This means that you can manually clear the group of such users.

To do this, just open the full list of group members and start scrolling down gradually by clicking on the "Remove from community" button next to each user whose avatar is "dog".

The advantage of this method is complete control. You see every person you remove, while with the other two methods, everything is at the mercy of automation.

There are a couple of drawbacks to this method. The first is the duration, it will take more than one hour to remove all the "dogs" from a large group. The second disadvantage is the possibility of accidentally deleting users who are not "dogs". Often people put a “dog” icon on their avatar, but if you go to their page, you can see that it is active.

Automatic removal of "dogs" by means of VKontakte

The social network VKontakte understands that blocked users do not bring any benefit to the group and offers to get rid of them using its own tool. If you go to the “Statistics” section under the group administrator account, at the very bottom you can find the “Clear group from bots” button, as well as the approximate percentage of bots in the group. Click this button and the cleaning process will start.

Depending on how many users and bots are in the group, it will take different times to remove the "dogs".

The advantage of this method is its simplicity and the absence of the need to use third-party services. The downside is the uncontrolled deletion of users. In fact, you do not have the opportunity to see who exactly the social network VKontakte considers a bot, and these are not always “dogs”. In addition, as practice shows, even after such a sweep, “dogs” remain in the group, that is, the effectiveness of the method is rather low.

Automatic removal of "dogs" by third-party services

There are many third-party services that allow you to remove "dogs" from the group. In this article, we will consider how to use the well-known olike service for these purposes.

Important: If you are using a third-party service to complete this procedure, be sure to check that the service provider is a verified and trusted one. In addition, after deleting the “dogs”, it will not be superfluous to change the password for the group administrator account.

To remove "dogs" through the servicelike, you need to do the following:

The advantage of this removal of "dogs" from the group is the automatic process and the quality of work. The disadvantages are that you cannot control who exactly the service will delete, and the process of clearing the group is quite lengthy, especially if there are many members in it.