What the community thinks doesn't matter. Moderation is not a popularity contest, and the only consideration that should be used when moderating is if a post follows the rules.
I wasn't suggesting it was a popularity contest, but rather the community as the forum as a whole. Someone would have had to report my post and a mod would have to agree with the report. If that happens to me ten times, then it is obvious to anyone that it is me who is in the wrong here.My point is that if we were to implement a strict policy of banning people after x number of deleted posts, it becomes difficult to account for making exceptions to rules, as I advocate to in your case.
I don't think so. We make exceptions for plagiarism, no reason we can't do the same for spam. And even then, you could make the limit 50 posts per 30 days. There are very few users who would have 50 posts deleted for spamming in a 30 day period and actually be a net positive for the forum.What if - and stop me if this sounds like the craziest idea ever - reports weren't restricted by post throttling?
Actually wouldn't make much difference to me. I always use suchmoon's script which will simply queue up all my reports and send one every 5 seconds (if I set it to 4 seconds then sometimes it messes up due to latency). It does mean that sometimes I have to walk away from my computer for 10 minutes while it processes the queue of reports I have generated though. 