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Codidact's policy on "spam accounts"?
A somewhat well-known phenomenon from SE is "spam accounts" - that is a user profile containing self-promotional material which just sits there - the user isn't making any posts. Supposedly a parasite using our search engine rank to generate hits from external searches, rather than someone hoping to promote on Codidact itself.
Example 1, Example 2 - there's several more, all seemingly registered at once by the same spammer in this specific case.
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What is our policy for such accounts? Is there any reason why we shouldn't just delete them?
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And if they aren't allowed, what is the best way to report them?
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