Locking these threads doesn't make the Press board any more readable though, and you still have to search through all this trash to find meaningful threads.
Some threads have been deleted, others have not, it is the decision of the moderator who handles the reports. At this point, it was obviously not possible to achieve better than this.
And it also does nothing to disincentivize the spammer in question, since he still gets paid for spamming for CoinTelegraph. And without any actual enforcement and bans from higher up, then you will eventually get bored of reporting the same user literally hundreds of times, as has happened to plenty of other people posting in this thread. I don't mean to discourage you, but this is not a long term solution.
As far as I can see the user in question is no longer active on the Press board, last thread was posted 7 days ago - so I would not agree that he will continue with what he did before. This is not a long-term solution, but it sends a message to anyone who tries something similar that it will not pay off.