&#62; I don't think the lack-of-telling-people-to-not-bother-posting is about spam, it's about ordinary internet rats who would just reregister and continue making terrible posts.<p>That's very well possible.<p>(edit: I doubt someone would go out of their way to alert a troll to being banned though)<p>&#62; What? I've never heard about this.<p>You would have if you read the posting at the top of the page ;)