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Re: Proactive fighting with spammers. Doing it the right way
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deisik
on 20/10/2016, 11:39:46 UTC
I would venture a guess and say that banning these users would be an abuse of the ban-hammer. Yes, they are mostly posting total shit, but this is evidently not enough to start giving out bans
No, it is not. Read the list of forum rules properly. People have been getting banned for years because of this.

Unlike many others, I've actually read the forum rules. As they themselves say they are just guidelines, and the ultimate decision in respect to banning someone is still on the mod. Anyways, here's an example from another thread:

I will not mention any because I believe that if I play any gambling games, I will win and lose. The scenario is most likely happening on luck based game like dice. It doesn't mean that if I won several times, I am already good at dice, right? Same case on others, I think it's not only me. This is just my point of view though. Of course, on games like sports betting, poker or the like, skills are also used. However, we can't deny the fact that luck will always be part of every game

Could this post be considered as a shit post? I guess this is exactly what a shit post might look like. But I don't think that a sane mod would ban this poster. How come? Because judging what makes a shit post is totally subjective, and if the mod decided to ban users for making such useless posts, he would inadvertently end up heavily abusing his powers. Let's face the facts and cut the crap, had the rules been meticulously followed, most users would have soon been banned for just being off-topic here and there...

Because of the rule #2 (no off-topic posts)