Hello, hope everyone is having a good day! My forum recently has a new policy where we’re cutting down on certain types of explicit language and we would like to remove them from view for both users and Google. I used the search function to look for the problematic words, but realized that if I were to use the mass selection tool, it would try to delete entire topics rather than just the individual posts. Is there a way to delete only the specific posts containing key words so that my forum’s users don’t have to see 500+ topics get incinerated? I don’t mind if I have to perform the process each time for each word, but I am not feeling keen on going in manually to delete every post one by one. Thank you in advance!

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Why not substitute the word, rather than delete entire replies and potentially lose context within a topic?

If that’s possible, that solution is fantastic. However, if I were to have to do this manually, it would double or triple the amount of time needed which is already insanely high. Is there a way to do it in bulk or automate it?

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justinGP (Justin) October 10, 2019, 5:55pm 5

This worked, thank you!

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