> I've noticed an increasing number of spam users over the past few weeks

I've checked the last 50 new users and was only able to identify one spammer.

Did you report the others? 1 in >50 doesn't sound that dramatic.

Otherwise I'd recommend an automatic script regularly checking the bios and scratch-pads for all users with low XPs. (the spam links could be included long after registration!)

Could also be used to clean up dead registrations from users which didn't show up for a year.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re: Dealing with spam users by LanX
in thread Dealing with spam users by hippo

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