Quote from: Pearls Before Swine on July 21, 2017, 08:41:40 AM

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 21, 2017, 08:11:32 AM

Quote from: Pearls Before Swine on July 21, 2017, 07:40:28 AM

It's idiotic that plagiarism gets a permaban but blatant scams are allowed...but that's the way it is. Complaining about it isn't going to help your case.

Copying and pasting is pretty cut and dry whereas scamming isn't always or will require a lot of time and effort from staff to investigate, hence why it's largely left up to the community police. Personally, I wouldn't be against removing blatantly obvious scams or ones that are very likely scams but I can see how that policy would open up a huge can of worms and people complaining why we removed X but not Y etc.

People complain about being banned for copy pasting, and staff seems to be able to handle that just fine. This forum could very easily ban scammers and otherwise not tolerate scams. Most other forums have things in place, and it's not rocket science.

As above, they can complain but they won't have any grounds to stand on as copying and pasting is cut and dry whereas scamming or potentially scamming isn't always. What scams do we remove and how do we verify they are actually scams? People with too good to be true offers or after a verified scam accusation? There's already too much work to be done regarding spammers and if staff were to start investigating scams then it would just become even more unmanageable and hence why the community usually policies itself on such matters.