I have noticed something that is a bit odd here.

If there is a spam post and a mod deletes the post, the thread still stays active at the top the forum stack. Removing that post is not changing the post date variable back to the last post date. Which leaves it at the top of the stack.

While this may sound trivial... If the site gets a large scripted attack, current threads will be buried is a sea of old ones that have no current relevance at all.

I am not sure how your post handler is set up, but it should not be that hard to reset the last post date after a spam post is removed. Many of the forums I ran in the past automatically did so when posts were removed to stop them from ending up at the top of the current stack.

There may very well be a setting for this in the posts or publish module....

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