Select several spam messages at once and the moderation sheet breaks them down by sender: delete these, ban that one, restrict another, all in a single action.
It exists because a raid arrives faster than anybody can tap, and the alternative is a moderator falling behind while the group watches.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Clear a wave of spam in one action.
- check_circle Apply different outcomes to different senders.
- check_circle Decide when to delete a whole history.
- check_circle Turn on the filtering that prevents most of it.
The sheet groups the selected messages by sender, with a decision per person.
security Speed, and the mistake speed causes
The value is obvious: a coordinated flood of forty messages from six accounts stops being forty decisions and becomes one. The group sees it disappear rather than watching a moderator work, which matters more for the room's mood than the time saved.
The risk arrives with the same feature. A bulk action treats a selection as one thing, and selections made at speed pick up the member who replied to the spam, quoted it, or was arguing with it. That person is then banned alongside the spammers by an admin who was moving quickly and did not read the list.
There is a second-order cost as well. A group that watches forty messages vanish without explanation does not know whether it was spam, a disagreement or an admin losing their temper, and the quiet ones assume the worst. One line afterwards saying what happened costs nothing and prevents the version of events that spreads in private.
Which is why the per-sender breakdown is the part to actually use. Spend the two seconds it takes to look down the names before confirming. Undoing a wrong ban is easy; undoing the impression it leaves on a member who was helping is not.
Four situations
Only the first wants the largest hammer.
flash_on Move fast, then read
person Not a moderation problem
shield Before it starts
groups Several people with the same power
Bulk tools for bulk problems. One difficult member is a conversation, and the sender list is worth two seconds.
settings Using it
- Hold a message and select the rest Across as many senders as needed.
- Open the moderation sheet It breaks the selection down by person.
- Read the sender list Before touching anything.
- Choose per person Delete, restrict, or ban with history.
- Post one line in the group So the deletion is not mysterious.
- Turn on aggressive filtering and join requests So the next wave never lands.
This page removes a lot of messages quickly. The curriculum step is the record it leaves: what the audit log captures, how long it keeps it, and how a team reviews decisions taken in a hurry by somebody who is no longer online.
At a glance
- 1Bulk delete
Select spam messages and delete them together.
- 2Per sender
Ban, restrict or report each sender.
- 3Tell members
A short note explains why messages vanished.
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