FG, I and the other moderators do disable the profiles, for a lot of different breaches of the rules, but if a profile is still awaiting checking it is still viewable.
On a Friday to Sunday nights we do get a lot a new members. Any kind of significant date, Christmas, Valentines, etc or when Matt has forked out for adverts in the biking press also brings an influx. We get through the list as quickly as we can.
Also everytime someone makes a change to their profile, even if it is just a comma, then it goes back into the queue. Some members I can approve 3 or 4+ times in an evening, each time the full profile and all pictures need to be checked. If a profile is disabled for any reason then we send a PM. If anything on the profile triggers our "scammer alert" then their are further indepth checks that need to be done.
If someone only has a picture of them without their face on view, then they are disabled, and a message sent. Mine is usually along the lines of put up a decent pic and re-enable your profile, or just have a profile without a pic if you dont want your face to be seen, but politer
The moderators also need to check the forums, deal with complaints, various administration tasks, reset passwords etc. We all have outside real life commitments, which may explain why some profiles dont get checked for a day or so. But we do eventually get through them all.
Hope that explains it more for you and why some new members seem to be getting away with it. Well they do, but not for long, we get them all eventually