and the replies that follow then convince me that the forum isn't mostly populated by mindless bots now.
I'm not going to convince you, and already had 2 of the users that responded on Ignore. I've been "complaining" about the lack of punishment for plagiarism and AI for years now, and largely gave up reporting them. If it takes more effort to report a chatbot spammer than it takes for him to spam, it's a lost cause if they don't get banned on sight. If Mods just delete the reported posts but let the user continue, I just click Ignore and move on. This may very well destroy Bitcointalk as we know it.