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This is a partial response, not a complete answer, but I want to provide an update.

You're right that the various policy-related links are not as prominent as they should be.  Changing the TOS, even just for something like this, will require notifying everyone, so before we make this change we want to review it to see if there's anything else we need to improve at the same time.  We do not intend to change any policies, but if there's other copy-editing that needs to be done, this is the time to do it.  (It looks like we should clarify a ["may"](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/291397/291402#answer-291402) when we next edit.)  We're also reviewing to see if we should say something more about the specific topic you've asked about here, spam accounts where the spam is only in the profile and not also in posts.

Meanwhile, I've submitted a pull request to add those policy links to the sign-in page.  In addition to it being visible for sign-ins in general, this puts those links on the first page a new user sees when responding to the confirmation email.  (I started by looking at adding the links to that email, then thought doing it on-site would be better.)  This is a small step to address the (lack of) prominence of these links.  It's not a complete response.

Spam posts are not welcome, and the existing policy makes that clear.  Spam *accounts* without accompanying spam *posts* are a gap, as you've noted.  On the one hand, if the account never does anything, how much will it be seen?  On the other hand, we don't really want to provide "link juice" for spammers.  You linked to an answer I wrote about spammers; I had in mind accounts that made spam posts and wasn't thinking of spam profiles at the time I wrote that.  The team needs to discuss this more and formalize a policy.  We're not ignoring you, and I don't have an answer for you today.