The question, in my view, isn't whether spam should be left sitting around indefinitely, but whether it's to the point in this community that its sitting unattended for a few hours or even - gasp! - a day or two seriously interrupts this community's operations. The post that sat here for a couple of days didn't stop other people from posting or commenting to other threads, and it even garnered a few (not particularly substantive) comments of its own.

That, to my mind, doesn't necessitate a serious re-vamp of this community's moderation, much less one that could introduce changes to the way non-spam conversations are conducted. (Weaselking's offer to weed out spam, for instance, would come with the real risk that he'd use his authority to police racist, sexist, or homophobic language, to which he's shown an unusually negative reaction in the past, despite his promises to the contrary.) My appreciation and enjoyment of this community hasn't been meaningfully impacted by the amount of spam I've seen.

I'm open to arguments to the contrary, but for some reason, no one seems to be offering any.