User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-26180812-20170815224732/@comment-26339491-20170816000458

If the problem is mostly users who have no bad intentions, but are just clueless about categories, maybe don't understand it's an English-only community or mistake it for a chat for kids, then yes, that'd be a case where the new group can help.

There's spam that's just malicious, robot-y stuff (external links, 50 posts saying the same, etc.), which would be a case for the VSTF, and then there are posts that are spam-y ("hello", "hi", random snippets in other languages) that come from users who could become useful community members if taught a few things. Those posts are best dealt with by moderators who know the community better.