Ques/Help Deleting the content of a prolific user's posts — MySQL query?

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Hi everyone. I have a longstanding forum user with 60,000+ posts who would like his contributions to the forum deleted. He'd like to keep his account if possible, but that's not a dealbreaker.

Flagging him as spam doesn't work (it times out without deleting anything), and I've tried the Delete Posts add-on, but that's not doing it either.

I'm wondering if running a MySQL query to 'empty out' all his posts might be the most graceful way of doing this. (Also least destructive, as he's...

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