But you do know that warnings are a factor in activity. You can't expect a member who first joined to know all the rules and what to and what not to post, can you? I mean, they just joined, after all, and to some people, this might very well be their first forum. They're having fun and posting, and all of a sudden, they get a Private Message titled "You Have Been Warned." They open it to find that one of their posts which they don't even know was not valid. You'd think that that would discourage them from posting, right? Well, it does, since they fear for more warnings, and ultimately, a ban, if they continue to post. And even Loco, the very person who laid forth the rules, said that "spam is one of the hardest things to classify," so you can't blame a complete newbie to forums to know what it is, right? But I do think that a week is a fair amount of time for them to realize all those rules.

And about the Adopt a Newbie idea, maybe we can ask Fuzz to fix that little PM that he always give automatically to new members with a link to the Adopt a Newbie thread?