What just surprised me was the high amount of spam posted at the same time:
[![superuser.com overrun by spam posts][1]][1]

In view of this, it seems reasonable to me to simplify the measures for deleting spam.

**Edit:** Shortly after it continued:

[![new spam posts][2]][2]


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/W8RMZ.png "superuser.com overrun by spam posts"
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/MW1kP.png