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But didn't you say the best thing to do is to just not reply to bad behavior? You know... the fun little "don't post" chart you use every once in a while.
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I think we need to clear something up here.
While it's reasonable to ignore "one off" spamming or misbehaviour from someone (because that person doesn't have a track record of consistantly spamming), if it starts to get really repetitive and the mods appear unwilling to do anything about it, then I think we should start encouraging that member to make more of a contribution rather than inflame a situation or provoke a reaction.
It's obvious that what cheese wanted was a reaction, he wanted that reaction to be what he probably expected, a hypocritical "don't spam" attack after I had just suggested that people shouldn't respond to spam, most probably as an inside joke with SeaRex. However my response wasn't "don't spam", my response was to ask him to stop trying to provoke reactions, and to offer some suggestions instead. I think that's a reasonable request to make of someone who's behaviour is tiresomely consistent in it's pointlessness.
Personally I don't think the spam issue is really bad enough to warrant a thread about it, but I think that a revision of the whole spam thing, like Used suggested, would be a good idea for times when the spam gets worse for whatever reason.
As for nate's view, I can see the merit in it. Personally I think that we should not underestimate the ability of a group of veteran members to influence a member to stop behaving a disruptive manner, and not rule this out as a tool to stop problem members. But I still stand by my original suggestion that in most cases we should all just leave spam where it stands. Wait for it to get out of hand before we assume that it's going to get out of hand, and deal with it accordingly.