Can we do something about the spam accounts?

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Barozi on 03 January 2014

IamAwsome said:

Barozi said:
We need them to boost our membership numbers

Then why ban them?

we need them alt accounts

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kirby007 on 03 January 2014

Barozi said:

IamAwsome said:

Barozi said:
We need them to boost our membership numbers

Then why ban them?

we need them alt accounts

I could make a few more if were in thta much need

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DerNebel on 03 January 2014

the-pi-guy said:
Order by "post count"
That will probably help a lot, or at the very least show some of the best spammers.

That way you'll get a first page full of old users with alot of posts that are permabanned now, so that's not the best solution unfortunately.

I really think it would be the best if the accounts of those spammers would just be deleted, since I really don't see the point of keeping them. But I suppose mods don't have the power to do that, so it's something that I guess ioi would need to change.

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kirby007 on 03 January 2014

DerNebel said:

the-pi-guy said:
Order by "post count"
That will probably help a lot, or at the very least show some of the best spammers.

That way you'll get a first page full of old users with alot of posts that are permabanned now, so that's not the best solution unfortunately.

I really think it would be the best if the accounts of those spammers would just be deleted, since I really don't see the point of keeping them. But I suppose mods don't have the power to do that, so it's something that I guess ioi would need to change.

I repeat there used to be an option to not look for profiles without a user picture uploaded if we would get that back the whole thing would be solved

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