Yep, your warning posts are hilarious... except for that one time I spent about 20 minutes reporting plagiarists on the first 3 pages of a thread only to see your warning on the 4th... 

In this case, I ended up opening the post histories of each of the suspected bumpers in separate tabs which made it much easier to spot plagiarism between them. Supplying an additional report for plagiarism on top of the earlier submissions for duplicate posting seems to have done the trick, as 30 of my 43 unhandled reports were processed overnight. I've already learned that the only surefire ways to get an offender banned are plagiarism and referral link spam - every other rule violation, including the relentless ads that some pool operators post on every single page of a thread, seem to only get the post deleted, if that. And on that note...



You can, but in my experience this usually only results in the offending post getting deleted and that is too much work for all involved (both reporter and moderator) to be worth the bother. It's why I rarely report low value "good project" type posts unless the poster has at least 1 merit or copper membership and their entire post history is low value - but even still I recommending nuking the user rather than delete one spammy post out of millions.



I'm really glad you replied since it's always good to get some insight into how a particular mod operates. I think all of us that have made hunting for violators a minor hobby here (or an obsessive quest... like, say, iasenko...  ) realize that there has to be some prioritization of the enforcement of the rules, especially for the more subjective ones like whether a post is low value or when an ad for a mining pool ad goes from being informational to spammy. Since plagiarism is an incontrovertible violation I tend to concentrate on that, but I'm seeing more duplicate posts (ie - the same user/bot posts the same reply in multiple threads) these days and getting some feedback on the priority of handling those reports would be welcome.