Honestly if the system is being abused then the system becomes useless and should be taken out. I come from forums where everyone is built on imformative posts and helping each other out. Instead of said "fail" and thats it people would try to help the new members out by letting them know the rules and trying to contribute to the thread. Also if the mods went through and deleted posts and threads that would be considered spam on the other forums half this forum would be gone.