I am not sure I read, but sometime I read threads in which Theymos or one of the forum mods said that they can not find the appropriate mods to manage several local boards, such as Vietnamese board.
I come from Vietnam, and at the first time I joined the forum, I knew that Vietnamese board was locked due to 2 main reasons:
1) Over abusements there.
2) The forum can not find mods who know Vietnamese.
Is he aware what wrong is going on the local sections ? I guess No. If he do knows then he would have chosen the Mods right now.
It might be because there are mods who know those languages, so they can manage those local boards.
These are the two Local Forums which have many less topics created but they have the Mods.
So @Theymos have you been recently to any of the Local Forums , if you have been then you could have understand the problem. Many of the topics are not in right section. Some are spamming the sections with their referral links. Some too using automatic translations in the forum.