Have to love the replies that all go, "[winning team] had an (un)expected victory, the score was ____, the team should keep up their streak, but [losing team] did well/poorly so it was a well-earned victory/predictable"
Yeah, a lot of that goes on, and we should probably crack down on it a little more. You could probably if really wanted go, and report over a thousand reports a day, just on these types of posts. It's quite clear that some of them have never even watched the football game they're commenting on too, they keep it extremely vague as an attempt to go unnoticed, and I imagine it does actually trick the campaign managers that don't watch the sport either.
I wonder if deleted posts should have an additional merit or activity penalty.
A little bit too heavy handed in my opinion, since pretty much everyone on the forum has had a post deleted at some point, whether it's from breaking the rules or replying to someone that has broken the rules. I think it would be better to implement a shadow ban system or review system is probably the better word for new users. That means we're somewhat introducing a newbie jail again, but it would be far less restrictive. Plus, I think we have the moderators to cope with the current amount of users signing up, and posting to be able to review them in a decent amount of time.