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Discussion on: Welcoming new authors 💖 and fighting spam 🗑️ on DEV

 
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Gabor Szabo

Hmm, are these new accounts? When someone signs up these days they are offered a list of people to follow. They might follow you that way and because they are new their account is empty. I wonder is this is what you see.

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Stan Kukučka

@szabgab yes. This sounds legit to this topic. There are some accounts that are quite long time here, but still with zero informations or with strange informations provided. But let's just ignore it.

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Vincent A. Cicirello

Some people may not want to list any information publicly. Even if they have no activity listed they could still be valid. E.g. someone that reads posts without commenting.

Also if you do find a spam user such as someone that spams in comments, you can report the comment as spam, and even the user more generally.