s0z for late reply, I'm a little busy this week
I changed my mind on enabling auto thread pruning, found an easier way to only delete old threads

>I don't think anyone realizes just how few staff-san are around during UTC nights/early mornings (at least those who actually "get" Heyuri's r00lz & culture)
They don't need to "get" it to clean the spam, maybe they are just hesitant to delete some R8 stuff and want to leave it to others? I didn't see the image in question so can't comment on it

>and our current anti-flood measures are not enough
Just for brain storming, what else could we have? Janitors have the powar to mute certain IPs, there is thread cooldown.. Maybe a feature that auto-deletes threads with no replies when they reach (i say) page 5, but that's not necessary at the moment.
The hardest part of cleaning old threads is archiving the worthy threads on archive.today really, you can help with that if you want to