Not only newbies, highly ranked members should also read this topic and learn from it.
Many senior members do not follow those guidelines and they have no idea about what is allowed and what is not especially the rules that prohibit plagiarism and bumping a thread more than once in less than 24 hours (the number of ban appeal threads in Meta confirms this).
Those posts should be reported and deleted, as far as I know it is also against the rules.
You are right, it is against forum rules:
4. No referral code (ref link) spam.