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Originally Posted by tecoyah
1) decide the post was spam (due to the links and the status of the poster). Had this been decided upon this member would have simply been banned immediately , and the thread removed. (likely you all have no Idea how often this occurs)
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Actually, I'm going to do (most of) that now. Not that it matters much at this point, but looking into the "user's" registration info and times, he is very clearly a spammer who had no intention of participating in this community whatsoever, or in actually having any discussion in this thread. THAT is why he didn't return (except once, 2 months later, most likely to check on the status of his spam), not because he was scared off by relatively mild comments of dark humor regarding the absurdity of his spammed website. I have nothing fundamentally against voluntary population control whatsoever (although I do doubt it's ability to have any effect), but I *DO* have something against spammers.
I'm leaving this thread open, however, because an interesting discussion has somehow popped up (and not the one I'm responding to).