There are many communities on VKontakte on various topics. Many people create their own groups and try to promote them, but after some time they become unnecessary, for various reasons. Perhaps the VK group created was intended to promote a product or service, but the person stopped running his business, and people write everything. Or the author simply lost interest in it. Then the creator faces the question of how to delete a VKontakte (VK) group (community)
?
You cannot completely delete a group yourself. But in order for it not to be active, it must be completely cleared, which in essence is its removal. And then the administration will complete the removal process.
Attention! You can only clear your group and only if you are the only administrator or creator.
Deleting a VKontakte group through technical support
If you are the owner of a large group with thousands of subscribers, a lot of posts and discussions, then it will be difficult to get rid of the community on your own. This is possible, but it will take a lot of time and effort.
Before you sit down for several hours of monotonous work, contact VK support. Admins have many more options than the average user. To delete your group, they will just need to press a couple of buttons.
Here's what to do:
- Login to your profile;
- Go to the “ Help ”
; - There, find the inscription “ Here you can report ”
and indicate your request. The situation must be described as clearly as possible.
If the administrators come down and respond to the request, they will quickly delete your group.
If they refuse help, you will have to delete the group yourself.
How to copy a photo from Odnoklassniki to a folder on your computer?
To do this, you must follow the steps presented in these instructions:
- Open the post with the image you need;
- right-click on it to open the context menu;
- in the menu that appears, select “Save image”;
- Next you must select a folder. This way you can save photos directly to a flash drive or hard drive.
This way you can quickly copy a photo from a friend on Odnoklassniki and upload it to your hard drive or other storage device - just make a couple of clicks and select a folder to save. In the same way, you can save pictures and photos from personal messages that other users send you. To download the original image, you must select “Open in a separate tab” in the context menu. After that, you can send these files to Telegram or to your album in OK.
How to delete a group on VK if you are an admin?
Breaking is not building, so you can get even with your public or group very quickly. If the community is small, this will not take much time. Here's what to do:
- Log in to your VK profile and go to the group;
- Before deleting, you need to clear it of content: albums, documents, photos, videos, links and other things.
Review everything carefully. There may be something you need. In this case, the files can be downloaded using third-party applications or browser extensions.
- On the group page, under the avatar, find “Community Management”
;
- Go to the “ Basic Information ”
;
- Now we need to remove the information on the group wall. Place " Disabled "
next to all elements. - Make the group " Private "
; - Save changes;
- Open the " Members "
and remove everyone who is in the community.
If there were assistants in the group, open the “ Leaders ”
and remove them too. You don't need to delete yourself, otherwise you won't be able to delete the group. - When the participants and leaders are gone, leave the community. Click " Leave Group "
in the panel below your avatar. - Go to " My Groups "
. If everything is done correctly, the group will not be in the list. You also need to try to find the group in the search - it should be missing.
Trying to find a copy of data in the browser cache
I present this method to you more for a complete understanding of the available methods. It is not as relevant as the previous ones, but sometimes it allows you to access media files from a remote page.
It only works if you visited the desired address through your browser.
The point is to look through the cache and try to find a copy of the data there.
You will need the CacheView program. Direct download link is below.
Open the resulting archive and run the program. An automatic analysis of the existing cache from all browsers will be launched. In the menu you need to open the “Options” section and check the “Display image files” checkbox.
After completing the analysis, we look for existing data from the VKontakte website. To do this, press Ctrl+F, and write “Vk.com” in the search bar. We look through the found lines by double-clicking on them with the mouse cursor. If we want to see the data, we copy the link to the file and follow it.
If you manage to find the desired image or photo, you can save it.
How to delete a group in VK that you created on your phone?
Many people ask: how to delete a group on VK that you yourself created from your phone? You can't do this either on a smartphone or on a computer. There is no such function on the social network; there is no point in wasting time searching for it.
Why didn’t the administration provide for the removal of communities? One can only guess about the reasons. The administration probably had reasons for making such a decision.
You cannot delete a created community, but you can still get rid of it. In the future we will offer several methods.
conclusions
I have never hidden the fact that I like Odnoklassniki more, however, recent events have forced me to look at both social networks differently .
Both VKontakte and Odnoklassniki are constantly working on themselves (literally and figuratively), however, VKontakte is becoming more and more human-oriented than Odnoklassniki, which is moving in the opposite direction . Changes in the support service, the appearance of second-rate advertising (an article on this topic and another interview will be published a little later), as well as “left-wing” new products instead of those that users expect in the first place (now I’m talking about the feed and publicity settings), are being added to a piggy bank of classmates a couple of fat minuses.
I’m not saying that VKontakte has become ideal, and it’s time to run away from Odnoklassniki - not at all! But at the moment it is clear that VKontakte is moving in the right direction, and Odnoklassniki is close to losing its course .
Complete removal of information
If you have enough free time, you can perform a complete group cleanup. To do this you need:
- Delete photos and posts.
- Remove video.
- Close all sections through settings.
- Remove members.
- Set the community to closed status.
- Remove links.
- Clear blacklist.
- Check that no information is left in the group.
- Leave her.
The downside of this method is that you have to spend several hours cleaning up a large community. Therefore, very few creators use this method.
But…
I would not advise you to get rid of a group if something is going wrong in it. Take your time, take a break, forget about it for a while. Everyone faces difficulties; our wishes do not always come true in a short period of time. This is not a reason to give up on your dreams.
Once upon a time you had a dream. It seemed to you that you had finally found an unrealistic idea and millions would follow you. They will be interested, and you will be able to earn a lot of money without investing a penny. But remember, to realize any goal you need: strength, knowledge and money. There is still time, but we are not taking it into account now.
The amount of each of these parameters depends on the other two. If you have a lot of money, then you can put in a minimum of effort, but if you are seriously trained, you can do it without money.
What parameter are you missing right now?
Did he recruit a team of specialists and risk financial investments, grabbed hold of any free literature, trying to learn and grab piles of unnecessary junk that was valuable that was offered to him, or without understanding anything and without money, he confidently walked, stumbled, fell and got up again, struggled with misunderstanding and lack of appreciation of one’s own work.
What are you willing to invest in to achieve success? If you ask me what the right choice is, I will answer that it is knowledge. They will never leave you hungry. Over time, you will gain experience and can either open something of your own, or become an excellent performer.
There are no low-paid professions, there are people who are underpaid. As a rule, they either do the wrong thing or have insufficient knowledge. Forget about the word “talent”, we live in a different century. Commerce, profit, efficiency, who cares about talent!
How to quickly deal with the problem? Good courses. For example, if you dream of a career as an SMM manager, you can try the Netology
“SMM Manager: Business Promotion on Social Networks”
.
Professionals will teach you how to conduct a competent policy, create, attract an audience and much more. At the end of the course, you will be given a diploma, which you will also have to defend, but in your portfolio you will already have one successful project, which you created under the guidance of one of the incredibly cool and sought-after specialists from a large company.
Sale
If the community has more than 5-10 thousand participants, then it can be sold. The creator will need:
- Find a buyer.
- Agree on the price.
- Get money.
- Appoint the buyer as an administrator and transfer all management rights to him.
- Leave the group.
It is advisable to agree with the buyer to preserve the theme. Then participants will not begin to unsubscribe from the group and will hardly notice a change in the leadership of the community.
Doesn't bring the desired results, you can delete this community.
You need to prepare everything, remove all administrators and moderators (see), and then completely delete the community. Now I'll show you how it's done.
First, about the main thing or how to get rid of the group forever
If you found this article through a search engine, then most likely you are a frustrated newbie. You hoped that the public would become popular and you would succeed, but time passes and nothing changes in the group.
You've already tried a lot of advice, used bots, and now you think that without serious monetary or physical investments that you don't want to make, nothing will work out.
Don't rush to give up on your dreams. In the world, no one ever gets everything at once. However, I can no longer waste my readers' time. If I haven’t interested you in the alternative to deletion, then I’ll start with how to finally get rid of the VKontakte group. So as not to irritate those readers who came here with a clear purpose.
It’s probably worth saying right away that you cannot completely get rid of the group. Some sources write that you should contact technical support with a request. No one is stopping you from trying to do this, but I’m not sure that they will help you there. They will find many reasons and excuses, and this is logical.
I am convinced that specialists are not endowed with such rights. Well, you write to them: “Get rid of the group where I am the creator” and this information can be checked even without problems, but they will not do it. They understand that you can take revenge on your former boss and are adding trouble to his head.
Taking on such responsibility and deleting someone else’s group... you will then, with honest eyes, justify yourself to management that these are all tricks of technical support, but what are they? What if a bad entrepreneur starts making claims against a social network?
The site, of course, will win the lawsuit, but the employee who took on such responsibility and got the prestigious company involved in this nonsense will not do well.
By the way, by the way, I’ll tell you a very funny story on this topic. I tried to order advertising in one group, the administrator dynamized me as much as he could. At first he didn’t answer for a hundred years, then he finally agreed, but over time he began to brainstorm again about payment.
All these magical appearances and disappearances pissed me off so much that I wrote to technical support asking if they could somehow affect this guy's work.
I agree, the idea was a failure and stupid from the beginning, I don’t understand what lice forced me to make such a request. The next day I received an answer that, unfortunately, they cannot do anything with the administrator, who already works for free. Poor thing, the repost cost 20,000 (they didn’t know that, of course), but they’re not stupid.
In short, you won’t be able to get rid of the page completely and forever, and I wouldn’t recommend expecting too much help from technical support. What to do?
How to delete a community in contact
Once we are sure that we are working with a group, we need to change its type. On the main page, click the link “Community Management”.
In the “Group Type” item, we must select the “Closed” option (see).
This is necessary for removal.
Now you need to delete all subscribers (see). Go to the “Participants” tab, and one by one remove everyone from the list. To do this, use the "Remove from community" link.
As a result, only the creator of the group should remain (see). It will be you. After all, you created it yourself, right?
A serious mistake of starting an online business
Another reason why you may want to get rid of the VKontakte group is that you feel like you’ve taken on too much and can’t handle the volume. I agree, this is a huge problem.
A real brain explosion that you yourself provoked. And here you also need outside help. The second course, which I recommend to you, is much cheaper than the first and more complete. It costs a little less than 5,000 rubles and here you can find out almost everything on the Internet.
This is certainly not Netology
, where diplomas are considered prestigious, where the most real specialists come from, but this school has its advantages. They also issue diplomas here, but I’ll tell you frankly, people come here to study primarily for themselves.
You can take a closer look at this video course to study.
Here they will tell you about the work of VKontakte. Lots of everything. No matter what client you meet and no matter what he needs, you will always be able to fulfill the order. Any task will be within your reach. Just choose.
They will guide you by the hand and answer all your questions, help you understand the details and nuances. 150 hours of video, 100 pages of lectures, more than 1000 webinars, independent work and homework, as well as the basics of time management.
All that remains is to choose.
Think, dear friends, and don’t rush to get rid of the group, and with it the great idea. Perhaps everything can still be saved.
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With this I say goodbye to you. See you again!
I support an online store of a local seller of mobile phones, tablets and other wearable electronics. One morning I received a message from one of the store group administrators with approximately the following content:
Hello, do you know who Alexey Kholyshev is? Overnight, he kicked out all of our employees as administrators and turned the store group into a group selling steroids. What should we do?
The full story with all the problems and (spoiler alert) a happy ending is under the cut.
Prologue. What actually happened?
One night, someone logged in under the account of the creator of the store group (nobody knows a person with that name, most likely a fake page), deleted the administrators and changed the theme of the store.
I don’t know for sure who logged in under this account. I just know that this account was the creator of the group and during the sale of the store to new owners, he appointed new administrators and left the group. In the morning, managers and management were in panic. The group that included living active clients of the company was lost. With the thought “you’re a programmer” and professional curiosity, he advised me to write to VKontakte support and describe the situation, and he himself went looking for precedents. As it turns out, there is very little information about the restoration of commercial groups. There are stories about information and entertainment groups everywhere, but not about business communities.
Act 1. Write to support
Since the group was clearly commercial in nature and referred to an existing online store, we described the situation and offered to confirm the rights to manage the store’s website by creating a special page.
Act 2. First response from support
The first answer came the next day, but it did not inspire optimism. The agent's response was something like this:
At the moment, we have blocked the community for changing the topic and want to have a conversation with the creator of the group.
Quite predictable. We are waiting, gentlemen.
Act 3. Instructions for action
After 7 days without replies from the agents, we wrote a message to the ticket asking about the recovery process. After 3 days, an agent (judging by the number, a different one) answered us and sent us a list of necessary documents:
- An official request issued on the organization's letterhead. A seal must be present, as well as the signature of an authorized person or general director. The request must reflect the essence of the requirements.
- Power of attorney in your name indicating the powers delegated to you (also stamp + signature of the general director + date)
- ORGN Certificate
- Trademark certificate with attachment (if applicable)
- Placing a code (16-digit digital code) on any page of your website (site url). Please provide the link to the page here.
Here we were happy. The documents and link were ready the next business day and sent to technical support.
Act 4. Waiting. A happy ending
Only VK employees know what happened on the VK side. Almost 2 weeks passed between sending the documents and restoring access. As a result, the group was again under the control of our managers and one of them was appointed creator.
Epilogue.
The source of all the problems was the incompetence of SMM managers (if you can even call them that), who did not take away the rights of the group creator.
When changing business owners or reshuffling administrators, check the relevance of the current administrators and the creator of the company community on social networks. In fact, the group was lost for a month, but the next day after the capture it was blocked and only managed to publish 1 entry. The rest of the time it hung blocked in the list of groups for our clients. During this period, we lost 15% of group members (these were real clients). The volume of lost profits is difficult to estimate.
Now everything looks simple and consistent, but in reality it was a lot of stress for the entire company. When working with a small market, it is very important to maintain customer loyalty. This whole story hit the company's image hard.
What should I do if I have lost access to the page of the owner (creator) of the group? It was hacked, blocked, or access was lost for some other reason, and it cannot be restored. It also happens that, having gained access to the owner’s account, the attacker deletes all other administrators. How to restore rights and return access to group management?
We complete deleting the VKontakte community
All that remains is to remove the administrator. And since you are one, you just need to leave the community. To do this, on the main page, expand the list “You are in a group”. And here select “Leave group”.
A warning will appear stating that this action will cause you to lose administrative rights. We agree and click the “Leave Group” button.
A VKontakte community can be created without much difficulty by any member of the social network. For this, all the necessary instructions are provided, and in the search engine you can find step-by-step instructions for beginners who are still new to the basic requirements on this issue. However, time passes and everything changes, a person develops new interests, and in this regard the inevitable question arises: how to delete a group in VK that you yourself created? Several methods will help solve this problem.
Many people are concerned about whether it is possible to delete a group on VKontakte?
First of all, it’s impossible to do this just like that, and besides, you need to know some rules:
- Only its creator, who is the owner and administrator, has the right to manage the affairs of the group, including removing it;
- the page with the community must be cleared of any information
, this can be considered deletion; - when a group remains “empty”, without participants and publications, it is eliminated when the VKontakte server is rebooted.
Unfortunately, this cannot be done easily, since there is no special button for deleting. Despite the fact that you can create a community in a few minutes, you still have to figure out how to delete it.
Of course, if the group is small, undeveloped, and did not exist for long, it will be easier to remove it, but what to do if it is a whole clan consisting of a thousand or more people, and the page contains a huge amount of information materials, including forum branches? In this case, you most likely cannot cope alone, and you will have to consult with network technical support staff
. At least the administration has much more tools and experience in this regard.
To take the necessary steps, you will have to act sequentially:
- In your profile, click on the “help” section, located in the upper right corner, where the user’s name and photo are located. You can select it from the drop-down menu.
- A window will open containing a list of all possible problems, including answers to the question of how you can delete a group, page, etc.
- If the participant is satisfied with the proposed actions, he can do so by following the instructions. Otherwise, you should click “this does not solve the problem.”
- After this, you can make an entry in the field that opens with a request to delete the community. At the end of the request you should make a link to the address of the required page
.
In some cases, the administration may respond to the request and fix the problem. If not, you can do the removal process yourself.
How to view a deleted page in a web archive
A web archive is a special service that stores data from all pages on the Internet on its server. Even if the site ceases to exist, a copy of it will still live in this storage.
The archive also stores all versions of Internet pages. Using a calendar, you can see what a particular site looked like at different times.
Deleted pages from VK can also be found in the web archive. To do this, you must perform the following steps.
- Go to https://archive.org/.
- In the top search block, enter the address of the page you need. Copy it from the address bar of your browser by logging into your remote VK account.
Using the Internet Archive, of course, you will not be able to write a message, nor will you be able to find out when the user was online. But you can even look at his latest added posts and photos.
Page found
If the page you are looking for is saved on a web archive server, it will give you the result in the form of a calendar chart. It will mark the days on which changes were made, information was added or deleted from the VK profile.
Select the date you need to see what the page looked like. Use the forward and back arrows to view the next or previous day, or return to the first search page and select the appropriate date in the calendar.
How to delete a group yourself
If there is a desire, and the user understands that he can do everything himself, especially if the created association is small, then you need to start by deleting all existing content
, which includes previously downloaded materials, including video and audio files, text documents, pdf copies. Of course, valuable information can be downloaded to your PC using add-ons or special applications.
- Option I is the fastest
. From your account you will need to go to “my groups” and select management. Next, in the list of groups, click on the one you need and go to management settings, opening information on the association. Opposite each element from the list should be set to “off”, after which you can exit the group by clicking on the corresponding inscription.
Knowing how to delete a group in VK that you yourself created, you still need to remember to make sure it is deleted. You will need to make the transition to group management again. You must understand that now the user will no longer be able to participate in governing actions, add materials and participants, or remove them. And if there is no admin in the community, then the entire group will be deleted a little later.
- Method II
involves manually, methodically deleting all subscribers and publications:
- entries and photographs are deleted using the cross located in the upper right corner;
- then video clips are deleted in the same way;
- remove all existing information by going to the management section;
- In the same place, in the members tab, all members of the community and administrative assistants are deleted;
- the wall closes;
- the black list of users is cleared;
- at the end you can delete all links, after which you can leave the group.
It is advisable to change the name and put “private” in the “group type” field. If all participants have not yet been deleted, you cannot delete yourself. Only after checking the settings can you leave the community.
When everything is done correctly, the group will no longer be in the presented list, but it makes sense to try to look for it also using a social network search engine. So, having basic knowledge of how to delete a VKontakte group that you created yourself, it is possible to do this manually, consistently clearing the content and participants.
- Method III
is the simplest. Not everyone has the time to spend scrupulously clearing all available information, as this can take several hours.
You can do it more practically:
- download important materials to your computer and then remove them from the group;
- then you can immediately close both the wall and the community;
- the third step will be to get out of it.
By the way, if the association was not created by the participant himself, but he was chosen by the previous administration to be the new leader, then he can also delete the group using the listed methods and in the end delete himself.
Regarding the public page, when it needs to be deleted, cleansing should begin with leadership positions.
Having demoted the owner, admins and moderators, they remove posts, purge subscribers and then delete themselves.
Situations are different, so it’s useful to know how to delete a group in VK that you yourself created. This seems difficult only at first glance, however, it is important not to leave the former community ahead of time, because then, having lost the rights of a leader, it will no longer be possible to complete the matter.
Almost all users of the contact are registered in various groups, and some even created their own. If you are faced with the question that you need to delete a group, but you do not know how to delete a group in contact that you created yourself (that is, it is yours). It may bother you on the page, or for some reason it is no longer needed. Then read below how to do this operation correctly.
Before I start telling you how to delete your contact group, read some useful information. Perhaps you are in a hurry to delete a group from a contact? Let's say you created a group for your company, which sells furniture in your city, but decided to close the business and delete the group. Have you thought that this group can be sold to your competitors or used for a new business that you decide to do in the future? You can earn money from groups, for example, by making announcements of discounts that are or will be in your city. You can also transfer the group to another person free of charge by writing in the group that you will give it to anyone who wants it.
To leave a group, you must be its administrator (leader). If you want to delete a group only from your page, go to it and click on the “My groups” link in the main menu on the left - in the vertical list. On the right, click on the group you want to leave.
The group you need opens. In the upper right corner, under the avatar (group picture), click on the “Leave group” link.
After this, a warning will appear informing you that you want to leave the group. To confirm, click “Leave Group”.
That's it, you are no longer a member of this group and it will not appear on your page.
Tips: how to ensure security and not lose access to the group
The owner is the creator of the community or one of its administrators to whom the creator has transferred his rights. This is a critical element of your community.
You cannot take the security of the owner’s page lightly; there is a risk of losing access to the group forever. The owner is the same administrator as others, but only from him other administrators cannot take away the rights to the group, and only he can transfer the owner rights to another administrator. In addition, only the owner can carry out some actions to manage the community - for example, transfer the group to public and back.
- Take care of the owner's account. Its page should always be linked to a valid phone number. Follow all safety precautions.
- Don’t do anything on behalf of the owner’s page that could get you blocked. Do not violate the rules of VK: do not send spam, invitations to the group.
- Even if you don't use the owner's page, you should receive all the messages that come in private and be able to respond to them. It is recommended to enable notifications of new messages by email or SMS. The fact is that if one of the other administrators tries to send an application with a request to transfer the owner’s rights to him, then the VK administration will contact the current owner to find out the circumstances of the case. And if they don't receive a response within two weeks, the owner's rights may be transferred to another person.
- If the person who is the owner is no longer involved in managing the group, ask them to transfer ownership rights to you. This is done in group management, in the “Participants → Leaders” section.
- If the group belongs to an organization, you need to double-check who is assigned as its owner. This should not be an employee who is unable to ensure the security of his account, and especially not a former employee who has already been fired.
- Be careful when appointing administrators. These should be people you completely trust. If there are unnecessary people in the administrators, you need to remove them from there. And if a person will only publish materials or act as a moderator, there is no need to make him an administrator; It is enough to grant editor rights.
