dijital--when you see the conditions you describe, that usually means LW is connected to mainly spam servers. Check out the connections pane to look for a pattern.

Usually using an "any type" search with a ridiculous search term like "fuo bar .jpg" (or anything else nonsensical) will indicate the quality of the connections. If the initial search gives very few results, then your peers are not bad. If a repeat search gives a few bad results, that's OK--the spam servers are several hops away.

If you get 100's of bad results immediately, start deleting the hosts in your connections that you think are mostly spammers.

As for a long term fix--no easy fix is in the works AFAI can see.