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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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We don't allow these on our communities. They're an abuse of the system, and they'll be removed once someone with the appropriate tool access notices them.
I generally trawl all the new user pages for spam accounts every couple weeks and nuke whatever spam accounts I find. There are some moderation tools in development that will allow users to flag profiles, so once that goes live that will be the way to report such profiles.
Until then, there's no real way to report them; you can either wait until an admin notices them or you can always drop into chat and mention it there.
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