As of right now, Charcoal is on strike, but I'm posting this as a preemptive PSA for when the strike is over.

However, as of this morning, Charcoal is also now participating in the moderation strike, so joining Charcoal HQ at the moment is going to be by and large pointless.

Does this answer your question? Is there anything useful I can do to help with the massive number of spam posts coming in?

Probably include questions, too: serverfault.com/questions/1125632/how-does-one-fix-these

The chat room is a good place to at least start discussions. Perhaps pick a time when our North American members are more likely to be around (Thomas is US East coast I believe).

An ambitious project for somebody from the Server Fault community could be to help improve the resilience of metasmoke. I have some idle thoughts around putting it behind Cloudflare to make it more responsive but I'm a complete amateur about these things. (The actual hosting is fortunately handled by someone who is a professional.)