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I noticed this today when looking at badges.
Obviously these accounts will probably be nuked by some type of spam script, but for now it's mildly annoying that I can't celebrate others' accomplishments.
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3This is being discussed on MSE, actually: Spam Profiles are getting my goat. Could we have better tools for mods to deal with profile spam?– CatijaCommented Nov 28, 2017 at 1:03
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@Catija ah, my bad. Thanks!– RaystafarianCommented Nov 28, 2017 at 1:12
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2Nothing to apologize for. Just letting you know it's further up the chain. ;)– CatijaCommented Nov 28, 2017 at 1:13
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I noticed this today as well, it's still going on, lots of spam insurance user accounts– TallyCommented Dec 5, 2017 at 14:24
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Thanks for the pointer with the Autobiographer badge. Helped me cleaning up the remains on the sites I'm mod on :)– IzzyCommented Dec 13, 2017 at 12:41
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1A recent post on Meta Stack Exchange: Remove 'Autobiographer' from Recent Badges. (It was marked as status-review.)– MartinCommented Feb 25, 2022 at 16:45
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I asked about this on main meta, since I feel this is a broad, network wide issue, and I came across this entirely by accident.
This... has been going on a while, and our spammers are actually seemingly adapting to be less visible. I can't find the exact question but stuff like not allowing links in profiles is aimed at making the site less attractive to spammers.
While I asked for a way to delete these accounts - there's far too many to clear out manually, there's a few good ideas suggested to actually prevent them from being able to do this at all. There's also a reasonable awareness that this is a problem so...
While we can't do anything directly - its about 3-4 clicks an account deletion and there's rate limits, we've reached out to folks who can do something, both via meta and via other sources.
No promises but we're doing our best to pass this up the chain and suggest ways to deal with it.
answered Nov 28, 2017 at 1:34
