At least two people have been banned in the past few months. One was an individual who insisted on talking about his revolutionary nanotechnology that was somehow connected to ancient Egyptian knowledge. The other was a possibly more reasonable individual who strongly did not play well with others. There have likely been more. Also keep in mind that sufficiently mentally disturbed people sometimes resemble spammers. So it is possible that some that have been banned for robotic spamming were actually humans.
One was an individual who insisted on talking about his revolutionary nanotechnology that was somehow connected to ancient Egyptian knowledge.
Shoga, right? Just found his posts; they are amusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manga
Thanks for the link, grouchymusicologist.