If I ran into that as a potential new user, I’d probably just give up instead.
I typically don’t even delete spam users. I suspend them forever. That way I can more easily harvest information from them to see patterns, which makes it easier for me to react quickly as tactics shift.
If I block an IP, they just get a new IP. If I don’t, some of them come back with the same IP and I can react quickly.
At the same time, I have plenty of new spammers whose registration and last used IP are different.
I get a lot of legit usage via VPNs, so it would actually cause random failures to just keep blocking random IPs that don’t actually map to spammers.
I think we should have an option to block email but not block IP when deleting a spam account. Blocking IP ends up being a hidden cost that you can’t directly measure. I think it’s very 