I understand what you say and I agree, but how do you do it?
if you put rules and boundaries we become a police state, so how can we prevent these people from cheating?
easy we use a passive method i.e. we don't give him credit
Things aren't nearly as black and white as 'there's either some rules or it's a police state'. I'm hoping you don't view the world that way, because even the country with the most freedom (I've no idea which that is, I'm just saying) has laws. Every single country does, and speaking now of this forum, the rules that are unofficially written down are rarely enforced except for major infractions; usually when someone is way out of line, the community is responsible for using the trust system as a corrective measure. Is it a perfect system? Oh hell no. The trust system is so broken that it'd have to be scrapped entirely and rebuilt from scratch just to make it comprehensible.
But none of us here own the forum, so we have to work within the constraints of the systems in place, right?
I personally put people on the ignore list so I remember that I don't have to give them credit.
I've been doing that for years, but those shitposters....they just keep registering in droves, and I don't know about you but if I used that as my only tool to block out the noise I'd be spending several hours a day just hitting that ignore button. It's better to put the assholes on blast, especially if you enjoy a little drama from time to time.