# Lots of Spam New User Registrations?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/lots-of-spam-new-user-registrations/38925>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2016 年2 月 2 日 21:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lots-of-spam-new-user-registrations/38925 "2016-02-02T21:22:35Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2016 年2 月 2 日 21:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lots-of-spam-new-user-registrations/38925/5 "2016-02-02T21:41:53Z")

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For the ones that fill out their profile info (about me, etc), I would like it if our Akismet plugin could eventually start feeding the About me through its anti-spam checkers.

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What percentage of these fill out the user info @BCHK ?

There is a fair argument to be made here for checking global IP blacklists on some new user signups – it’s about the only way to tell if they are just spammers who have not spammed (yet) but are creating accounts to maybe eventually do that?

Another possibility is to auto-delete accounts after (n) days who have not visited nor read anything beyond signup. But a lot of site owners won’t like this because it hurts their “stats”. Never mind if the stats are bullshit..

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