Hi, my friends!
Recently (in truth, too long) I was cleaning the unused accounts.
Once we had over 8,000, and now a little over 1,500.
Where it came from such a large amount of unused accounts? Why did I delete them? Reasonable questions.
Probably you know, and more than once have noticed that the our SCN and Forum are favorite areas for spammers.
On our pages they leave their bundles of meaningless messages.
Their goal — to raise the price of its advertising links for search engines (like Google and Yahoo!), placing these links on as much as possible number of web pages.
For admins, SCN have simple but efficient action — "Mark user as spammer", which deletes all spammer's activities and blocks spammer from any further activity.
In the forum, admins can delete discrete spammer's posts or delete entire topic, and block spammer.
Due to simplicity of these actions and lack of free time (who did a lot?) until today we had a huge amount of unused accounts.
That's why I wanted to delete this bloated bubble by the name "nothing".
We share users accounts between SCN and forum. Simply sign up to the SCN in order to be able to use the SCN as well as a forum. And vice-versa.
Of course, something could go wrong in the process of removal, especially in the beginning. But, I tried to approach this issue very seriously. Anyway, I apologize to anyone I wrongly deleted. Yes, I'm the biggest "killer" of all time. Forgive me.
And now some statistics for your entertainment.
At the moment, for the 463 days of existence of SCN and forum, we have 9244 registered users.
Personally, I removed the 5762 accounts.
868 users have ever written a message on the forum and create new topics.
Other 767 users have never written on the forum, but for all this time showed some activity (came to a forum or SCN under their account, or wrote messages on the SCN), and showed no yet spam activity.
Total: 1635 users.
The chart below shows the distribution of registered users on each day of existence SCN and forum. The horizontal scale is divided into weeks. The strongest peak of spam activity we had on May 29 this year, when 99 members signed up for one day.
Also I want to tell many thanks to our activists who are fighting against spam in the SCN and in the forum, the people who no matter what appears here about every hour to our SCN and forums have been cleaner. They also help users with their advice. And they — almost all of the old team, who are able to share their experience here. I say thanks to Brenton Edgar Scott (Trixar_za), Richard Dunbar (mojo), Pascal Bellard…
Sincerely yours, Aleksej Bobylev
(as a spam fighter)