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Please remove these Profile Spammers

Posted by alexkemp on 24 May 2017 in English. Last updated on 29 May 2017.

Please remove these Profile spammers (from Other nearby users, as shown in my Profile page).

Info on Profile Spammers

If you have access to their email address & IP you can signup at SFS & report them on to the DB, which will then prevent them from spamming any other forum/blog that makes use of SFS.

felineescorts (removed - thank you) (spam for escorts):–
Signed up:– 10 April, 2017
Edits:– 0
Traces:– 0
Diary:– 0

bohemiagirkl (removed - thank you) (spam for escorts):–
Signed up:– 13 March, 2014
Edits:– 0
Traces:– 0
Diary:– 0

debbie bryan (spam for a shop; no link, but is still spamming):–
Signed up:– 25 March, 2009
Edits:– 0
Traces:– 0
Diary:– 0

Steveford11 (removed - thank you) (pharmaceutical spam):–
Signed up:– 11 April, 2014
Edits:– 0
Traces:– 0
Diary:– 0

RDArchitects (spam for architects practice; no link, but is still spamming):–
Signed up:– 12 October, 2012
Edits:– 0
Traces:– 0
Diary:– 0

This is 5 of 30 users, suggesting that 16.7% (1 in every 6) of users sign up purely for the purpose of spamming OSM. After an analysis of those 30 users shown on my Profile, I found that 80% made no or very little contribution (3 or less edits) to OSM; this seems to be the classic 20%/80% split, and makes it very difficult to understand why all these redundant users should be retained.

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