We do have a trigger for users that are filtered by many. It seems reasonable that we can do the same for users that garner a lot of #spam tags. Unfortunately, the bastards often create an account for each spam post. I really don't want to have a probationary period or something like that. A possibility would be an auto #newuser community tag, and that like #spam, logged out users and new users would be filtering it automatically. We could then rely on the community to change the #newuser tag on deserving posts. Until a user had a post that had the tag removed, all their posts would carry the #newuser tag.The fundamental problem is that he doesn't value tags, therefore he sees no solutions in tags or their taxonomy. Thus, the general idea that "spam" has to be dealt with by dealing with the users who promote spam, rather than stuff that is tagged as spam.