From our point of view, we saw one small post being used as a seed to help many, many others as a worth while trade off.

That's the lie you tell yourselves.

If you are half serious about your project, you wouldn't settle for copy/paste. The rest are excuses.

If you thought your time was better spent "looking for posts", then you wouldn't repeatedly post and repost the same thing over and over for months.

You have no argument. It's all justifications.

Anyone in the community would agree.

This could have been handled with communication.

It's common sense what you are doing is dumb. You are not new to the ecosystem. There is no excuse.