Spammers/abusers will always try to spam/abuse, that's in their nature. But we don't report them straightway. We tend to give them fair warnings/advice's/2nd chances, but when things gets out of hand we take hard actions against them. That how it is with our local board. That's what LB did for our local board. And surprisingly they stopped.
My personal perspective is that nobody is born a quality forum user/writer. When I first joined this forum, I made many mistakes, but these guys (LB and so on), helped me, guided me. So I want to do the same as they did.
My personal perspective is that nobody is born a quality forum user/writer. When I first joined this forum, I made many mistakes, but these guys (LB and so on), helped me, guided me. So I want to do the same as they did.
I totally support people helping newbies and not only newbies to become more qualified and educated. But you said it yourself, that spammer will spam, because it is in their nature. I am convinced that a newcomer may not know about the forum rules and customs, but he is definitely aware that plagiarism is not appreciated, because it is not some specific rule precisely for this forum, it is a common thing in real life as well. That is why when I see a newbie, whose first, second post are completely plagiarised, I don't have any desire to explain, why this is wrong and cannot be done here. Because it is general knowledge. And if someone does this, then he does it on purpose, with complete awareness of his action. Why spend time to try to correct such a behaviour when a person doesn't want to do it himself?