Speaking of spam megathreads, it's really, really unfortunate that Bitcoin Discussion seems to still be one of the sections that hosts many of them (although I've un-ignored it recently).
If you go through first 2 pages of Bitcoin Discussion you will find less than 5 spam megathreads, meaning that's not the main problem there. Instead, much bigger problem (imho) are loads of low effort redundant shittopics and instead people reporting them for what they are, they rather use them to dump their signature quota. Then again, mods could just check that board once or twice per day and just nuke those kind of topics instead waiting to get reported, like its usually done in other forums.
I wonder how he handled the fact that he could not delete that type of forum contribution
If he could he would probably bring back all those reported posts, since he was really set on removing everything that he did around here.