I had several successful reports regarding this user, but my last 3 reports from ten days ago are still unhandled. Obviously, there are different criteria among mods, because the only message that these spammers understand is as many deleted posts as possible, followed by a temporary ban.
Many reports, many deleted posts contribute a first temporary ban. Many temporary bans cause a permanent ban. It's the flow of spammer to Archive bin of forum.If the intention of a forum user is more than clear, then it is certainly demotivating that it takes several hundreds of reports to completely stop what he is doing. I think that's why there are fewer and fewer reports, and the report for the past period says that there were just over 1200 reports, which is a new lowest record since reports have been published publicly. One temporary ban should be enough of a warning for anyone who wants to understand that it is a warning for something bad they did on the forum.
If one gets temporarily banned, that means he should change his current wrong doings in the forum.