To address some of the points so far:
My goal in initially stating that I would issue verbal warnings first, and then refer repeat offenses for forum warning level increases, was so that I
wouldn't be the only pair of eyes deciding whether something is or isn't spam. I wanted to include the administrative team so that we would get decisions that are more fair; what looks like deliberate spam to me may not look like deliberate spam to someone else. The Citizen-Mediator is another pair of eyes too and perhaps the more appropriate role to deal with really serious spamming
I think, moving forward from what others have said, I will just issue verbal
requests rather than warnings to please not spam in the Ecclesia, and for really egregious and blatant problems -- which I hope we won't have -- I will lodge a formal complaint requiring election of a Citizen-Mediator. Please, let's not get to this level.
I continue to believe there is no role for appointed, unelected Citizen-Liaisons, who are responsible for community and culture, to moderate debate in the Ecclesia. That
is the responsibility we've assigned by law to the Citizen-Initiator.
Bustos, in regard to your examples, I think there is a difference between posts that just seem a little spammy and posts that are deliberate spam. While I may not have made this clear, the latter are the type of posts I mean to address. Adding "+1" to your posts to indicate that you're only posting to increase your post count in the Ecclesia is a clear cut case of spam. And just so we're clear that I'm not singling you out,
this is another clear cut case that I felt was only escalating the problem and was the reason I decided to address it beyond what Myroria has already posted. It's clear cut cases like these that I want to address, not the gray areas that could leave people feeling that their freedom of speech is being unfairly limited. The examples you posted aren't at all clear, deliberate spam, and I wouldn't want to address them as such.
So, to summarize: I'm going to handle spammy posts by simply requesting that they stop. If they persist in an egregious way, I'll file a complaint that will require election of a Citizen-Mediator. As I've already said, I hope we'll have enough respect for the Ecclesia and our fellow citizens that we won't reach this point.