Let's put an end to it and find a more concrete example... I spent about an hour. It's somebody else's turn.
There's no need to, IMO. With that one post you hopefully ensured that he'll be banned for good, with no excuses this time. Did you report that post to the mods, by any chance?
And people wonder why I'm so careful when meriting newbies, to the point where it seems like I'm biased against them. Well, all of the evidence presented in this thread should serve as vindication of that cautiousness, because I've seen crap like this happen before.
This is easy to fix - mods should start banning for plagiarism again.
Um....why are they not? Is that not a thing anymore?
You shouldn't do that:
The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
Eh, then Theymos can ban these idiots. In the meantime, the community should take matters into their own hands, just like they do with scammers, which Theymos allows to thrive on bitcointalk. Know what I mean?