Personally I think this thread is as inappropriate (if not more), as the thread by animer.
Martin, I think it's unfair to dismiss this thread while not having read aminer's posts.
I have read tons of them. Ludob's summary in the first post is quite accurate.
Repeated requests to him and the mods have not resulted in any change. Discussing this behaviour out in the open is IMO a reasonable thing to do as long as it is done decently.
You will also see in aminer's threads that there are multiple people who have problems with his style - so it's something that bothers more than one person.
On the surface many of them look like replies.
No, they definitely are not replies. In fact, he tends not to engage in 2 way conversation at all. It's all one way, with rare exceptions (e.g. insults).
In the reported thread are a lot of posts by others, so it is not pure self advertising
No, not a lot of posts. Compared to his torrent, it's only a trickle.
Most of these tell him to stop spamming, and add suggestions on what to do (e.g. correct his posts instead of posting the same thing with some spelling mistakes fixed etc).
He doesn't listen.
From the post of others, it appears that many miss the point of the question
Sorry, could be a language issue here, too but what do you mean? What question?
If you think he's posting a lot of things because of language barriers - well, there's tons of people on the forum whose apparent command of English is much worse. These people do tend to not post excessively, in fact, the reverse: they tend to post very short messages, often omitting information needed to help them, probably because writing the posts is hard and they're afraid to make mistakes.
IMHO: the best is to stop fuelling the fire. Stop asking/commenting. If then there are still an high amount of posts from him, then it will be easier to judge them as spam
I don't see the point. He's posting excessively with or without comments. There are plenty of his threads in the Third party announcements subsection. Look for some without many questions/comments. They show the same behaviour.
Finally: you're asking others to stop posting so his one way "communication" is more clear? In effect, you're asking everybody else to back off so he gets to use the forum as his personal blog?
That suggestion just doesn't make sense. I suggest instead you and/or other admins get in touch with aminer and try and get him to modify his behaviour or ban his account.
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