We have all noticed that something has changed about how plagiarism/paraphrasing is currently treated on the forum but has anything changed regarding the rules concerning shilling links? In the last few days, I have reported about a dozen such cases from two users, so although all the others are (so far) unhandled, one is marked as bad which I consider as a kind of message that such posts should not be reported.

User -> Wimex
Post history -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1950519;sa=showPosts (archived)

User -> Coinshots
Post history -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3457469;sa=showPosts (archived)

A topic I reported in the Bitcoin discussion and which was marked as bad -> VIETNAM AGAIN CONSIDERS LEGALIZING BITCOIN



Any comment from the moderator/staff would be welcome.