This neutral rating somehow is permanently branding any account that is tagged to be one of the worst spammers of all time.. A little tweak on the sentence may do, probably.
I agree. Changing it to simply
:: This should make it better both for determining the severity of the spammer and for reducing the "top N worst" branding.
The people on the list are being monitored, of course. Though, I find that most of these users in the past have stopped posting for some time or altogether, resuming their one-liners as if nothing happened. Or sometimes the most egregious spammers will continue to post insipid surface-level remarks that relate to the topic title for a couple days.
I'm starting to change around some of these neutral ratings.