Thread:Ironwestie/@comment-24896668-20140504220432/@comment-24896668-20140507031758

FYI, on the forums I maintained, I banned/blocked instantly when it concerned spam from a new account, and *never* got a complaint about it. If a regular user started to overly promote a website, I handled it very much the same way as you suggest. If they continued breaking the rules, a temporary ban was usually enough.

Also... it came to mind that usenet spam cancelling or maintaining a forum on my own server is a whole different ballgame than maintaining a wiki.

Since I owned the server and paid for the connection and electricity, I could do as pleased me. Keeping a nice environment was the reason for warning cq temporary banning regular users who broke the rules.

Usenet spam cancelling is rather technical. When someone exceeds the cancel treshold, anyone can cancel their messages and notify their provider. I could ignore discussion, shrug off flames and continue running my cancelbots :)  It really helped that my provider was well aware of my acitivities and asked if I could scan their own newsgroups as well.