IMO it should stay the same as it has been. This is because if people have spammed big-time to get an avatar we know who they are. We also know who the people are that post useful posts everytime. I myself did spam quite a lot on the old boards but did post a lot of helpful posts in various Hardware threads and tried to keep it balanced. That is why I didn't get posts taken off me IMO. Once people have reached the landmark for avatars the spam dies down anyway and normality (If you can call it that
) comes back. So I think this matter has been blown out of proportion and we should leave it as it is.
Don't quite know if that makes sense, but it it my opinion nevertheless.