If I have commented on an article, I have contributed something of value to SA.  How dare you take away access to the article?  Again, WHAT are you people thinking?  This makes no sense.

Daniel, to also answer your question - the authors that your editors feel are worthy of promotion, interviews, and the like - are generally authors that I do not respect at all.  Some are even authors that I would like to block - if you'd ever implement that feature.

Trying to mark these messages as Spam removes them from the inbox but the message "This is not spam." is also displayed.  Yes, they are Spam.  Really.

I got 3 messages.  If they had been from a private user, I would have demanded that you ban that user.  

But as it is, I will repeat my request for a feature to BLOCK a user so that I don't see his articles, comments, or messages.  And don't tell me that you're proposing this for "paid" users only.

SA is rapidly devolving into uselessness.  Really.

Also rcvd 3 spam messages.  What gives you the right?  This is unacceptable.

You sidestepped my other question.  Why don't you require pay authors to disclose their qualifications?

You don't need to comment.  For all I know, you don't even know.  But this author is a "pay wall" author.  Surely  you at least have standards requiring pay authors to describe their qualifications?  Surely someone vets them?  

Is "Colorado Wealth Management Fund" an actual firm?  I suspect not, but his profile does not say.  A ton of bragging about this and that, but no real explanation of who he/she is or what his/her qualifications might be.

Daniel, I know I've written to you before about this, but if you believe that the pay authors are publishing MORE free content, and that it's actually USEFUL free content and not just subtly (or in some cases, blatantly) shilling for their pay services, I think you've been seriously misled.

I think I've had several stalkers over the years.  And like you, I think I know who they were.  They follow you around, reporting everything you post.  And with the moderation system always taking the side of the reporter (no one has ever denied this), you accumulate black marks until you end up either requiring moderator approval on all your posts, or your get suspended.

Moderation is SA's biggest area for improvement.  We all know that moderating internet forums is difficult, but SA often seems to go out of its way to do _exactly_ the wrong things.