I don't know that a 2 day wait period would help... might be too much of a deterrent to legitimate new members. I do think that perhaps the "critters" should have been blocked sooner or had their posts wiped.
In fact, now that the timeliness of the thread is out of the way and all are safe-and-sound perhaps the entire thread could disappear? (Maybe that should happen to all non-trumpet threads after a period of time... give us a chance to do it all over again every year or so!!)
