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Originally Posted by kjkoster

I tend to let the fluff build. Once a spam post is made I ban the user and remove the spammy post and the fluff all in one go.

That is not an elegant approach, IMO. Even fluff posts attract replies and removing fluff posts retrospectively breaks threads.

Now that we know you ban the user only when he makes a spammy post what's to stop users from just creating fluff till such point they acquire signature and profile editing privileges? A profile link back to his site is spam to me.

Moderators don't "team up" on my board. They have a lot of discretion to act independently, but we do use the mod forum extensively to discuss spammer tricks which are changing all the time - from white text linking to shills planting leading questions.