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We just got a question on Academia SE (now deleted).
Obviously, it's an abusive question. At the time it happened, there was no on-site moderator available. It took 11 minutes and ten downvotes and possibly 6 abusive flags to get rid of it.
How can we get urgent help from a moderator from other Stack Exchange sites or somebody who has the deleting power to delete this kind of question as soon as possible?
Flagging as rude/abusive is the first step, and definitely helps. Just one flag will send it to the moderator queue; six of them will nuke the post automatically. As @Tensibai notes, questions disappear from the front page and the /questions list once they have 3 or more red flags.
Chat is the best option in the Stack Exchange network for real-time collaboration. You can check the main Academia chatroom and see if a moderator is active there (or at least more users to cast rude/abusive flags). Another option is to report the post in Charcoal HQ; we usually do spam detection, but we occasionally help cleaning up abusive posts. As @rene mentions, you might find some helping hands in the Tavern on the Meta as well.
You don't need ♦ moderators from other Stack Exchange sites per sé; on Academia, they will just be regular users. But getting rid of these kind of posts is something the community can do on its own; it's one of the reasons we have an association bonus.
