Theymos limits what he can do as far as deleting posts and banning spammers.
AFAIK hilariousandco has stated a few times he has very little contact with theymos, and I doubt there's many restrictions in place. After all it's up to the individual moderator on how they deal with something. It's probably a lack of time, and not enough reports. As well, as partly giving up fighting the masses of spammers.