The "don't migrate crap" rule applies everywhere. I am not a mod; however, I do work closely with mods to address issues like this.

I'm not a regular on SF so I don't quite hold the same strong opinion. I'm very disdainful of the attitude IT folks have, no matter how stressful the job may be.

Every user is responsible for making sure that questions are on topic for the site on which they are being asked, and I don't want to make the tag wiki excerpts too long. Is this qualification necessary?

The ban is for 7 days; details are available here.

The suggested edit you linked to is in fact a valid edit (though I would not have removed "any thoughts?" as that's really part of the question) and I would have approved it. See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/…

In all my years of fighting spam here, there is absolutely no reason for me to believe that this is spam. This is clearly a false positive, and it shows that automated spam detection systems are not foolproof.

Can attest to this. I've contributed spam patterns to SmokeDetector and see no reason to believe that the post is spam.

"You simply don't know if they've researched it or not. Pretending that you do is extremely arrogant and needlessly frustrating if the asker has spent the last hour googling it, wading through pages and pages of poor quality cr*p that doesn't help." Precisely. I've been through this myself.