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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Ibelieve this is the only place for admin type posts.
Yep. However I'm afraid all these lists are more annoying than the unwanted accounts themselves: as long as they don't post anything, I don't really care these accounts exist, all they do is falsify the population count. Listing them gives them the visibility they are looking for.
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The older ones might be benign, but there is a high chance that abusive names lead to abusive behaviour. Get rid of them before they can go any further. I don't agree that anyone who cannot play nice should be allowed to stay.
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This problem should be dealt with at the root; if one doesn't like specific words or letter sequences in an account name, then just have the system reject those names and refuse to create the account. Having members manually scan a list and report problems should be the exceptional thing to do, not part of the daily routine the site relies upon. Computers and programming were invented to free people from repetitive tasks.
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The links in the status bar still show them though. 
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Hey, he's contributing to the community (  )
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Just follow the link "View homepage" on the profile page's lower right corner.
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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Yeah not my point
View the profile, there are no reputation points anywhere, every account has at least 1 categorie with points in it (usually these have 300 in Participant.
But this one doesn't.
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I did not follow the link, but if it implies wiping and an iPhone, it is Spam and scam
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I hope he wasn't a complete dick!
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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Add Aatankwadi [^] to list too.
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Care to explain why?
There's nothing suspicious on his profile nor any link to a suspicious website. 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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The name if translated says 'terrorist' and he has no activity. So, I guessed it as suspicious.
There is another in row no-faxing[^], which has loans to sell.
Edit: One more, who has net books deals: netbookblackfridaydeals[^]
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Ravi Sant wrote: The name if translated says 'terrorist'
Ahh, I see. I wasn't capable of catching that. Thanks for the explanation.
Cheers!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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Ravi Sant wrote: The name if translated says 'terrorist' and he has no activity
Yeah, but the kiddies sometimes use handles like that... And he has no activity because he just joined two days ago. Let him do something stupid first, THEN report him.
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Ravi Sant wrote: The name if translated says 'terrorist'
That's a pretty good reason to give them the boot. In these days, who would joke with that?
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I'm curious, what criteria do you apply to define a spam account? Some are obvious but not all, erikperry4 (yeah I found his post which was obvious) could be a valid user name.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I'm curious, what criteria do you apply to define a spam account?
I usually look into their biography and their homepage. The homepage of erikperry4, for example, points to an online shopping site, which is also the homepage of other users that I found(ErikBaker1, and Erriking04 for example).
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walterhevedeich wrote: He even posted a question in Q&A.
Which I deleted.
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