Just one example of what I see as a gray-area:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3142740.0 (how do we move on from something?)
To some people it might be easy, and it might be hard to others. How do we exactly move on from something?
I guess this might be a legit question, but on the other hand it's clearly very low effort. Should be in off-topic perhaps or just removed? I don't know.
To me, this is clearly just spam. He dropped a oneliner in a new thread, got 3 pages of replies, and hasn't posted anything anymore for almost a month.
I think it's less work to report the good threads there instead of the bad ones. Or, once the board gets an active moderator, it may need a total "reset": lock all threads, and start over from scratch. That gives the new Mod some breathing space, and if he keeps a short leash on new topics, the spammers may quickly realize all their posts get deleted.
I really think we should just make Politics and Society and Off topic like Serious Discussion and then these sorts of threads would stop because 99% of the threads in those two boards are only made for the activity/post count. In fact, I doubt we even really need Politics now we have got Serious Discussion.
If the current spam boards are gone, the spammers will spread out over the rest of the forum.