When spam (or other posts) are removed the sorting used to return back to previous behavior. This doesn't happen that way now. I'm talking about when a spammer adds a post to 50 or so different threads then they all bubble to top, then the account gets banned
and the threads from ages ago now stay on top.
(edit:)
In the thread list view they show
Last Reply by - xx hours yy minutes ago
No name is listed since the account is banned.
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
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