pandorajewelry posted the identical spam item (consisting only of the same sales links) to at least 122 (what was left when I started deleting ca 3 hours later) forum threads in the space of an hour or so.
It was obvious from the start that everything this "poster" had posted was the same spam, but the only thing I could do was go through all the posts he had made; identify forums where I had Moderator rights and remove the posts *one-by-one* from each such thread found.
There were ca 20 and it took quite a while but even so there still are ca 100 threads in other groups of forums where other moderators will be forced to go through the whole process (now though starting from 100!).
How much better it would if some (all might lead to abuse) Moderators had the ability to with one action (or series of actions) to delete all the posts of such a spammer. Not only would it save the time of the first such Moderator to see a set of spammer posts but none of the Moderators coming in later would even be aware of the problem as it would no longer exist.
A less powerful but still useful version would be if such a single (mass) delete action caused all the posts by the spammer in forums where the Moderator had Moderator rights to be removed.
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