Just being the top poster over the past week or so doesn't make someone a spammer, if we examine yogthos' recent 19 posts, we can find that they vary in topics and sources. I hope that davel or someone can explain this ban or undo it if it was a mistake.
List of 19 posts, ordered by most recent: (Number of posts on each page examined: 5+3+4+2+2+3=19)
He's obviously reading an RSS feed or similar and reposting (my criticism would be.... are you even reading the articles you post?) but that's not cause for a banban.
Admittedly, I don't read all the articles in detail, but I figure that's part of the fun with forums like Lemmy. People will often point out interesting stuff about the article or provide more context.
Well... sometimes people actually and honestly thoroughly read and article. The might even go back and reread it.
Other people read an article but by read they skim the first few sentences of each paragraph and skip to the next one unless it seems like the rest of the paragraph might have more useful context.
Other, other people will read as far as the headline or mmaaayyybbbee the first few paragraphs and decide to drop a post about it.
So... "read" instead of read seemed more appropriate in this context.