I think you may be crediting them with more intelligence and awareness than is their due.
IMHO it wouldn’t be so bad as long as the “only came by once to leave some Profile SPAM never to return” accounts were auto-pruned after an arbitrary amount of time.
But I guess as long as Users -> Suspect has this covered it’s doable as is.
I still want Akismet to be processing user profiles of new signups at some point @eviltrout. Not super high priority but would be nice.
I thought this happens? I’d have to find the topic, but I thought if they are on the suspect length for X days/months, it prunes them. or maybe I’m still thinking of unverified accounts, of which these are not those (if I get more time later, I’ll investigate that further)
I know that’s how unverified accounts work… pruned after 7 days by default.
FSVO “expose themselves”. (Some things you can’t unthink! 
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But, yes, I’d much rather have them put the spam on their profile immediately so that I can delete them and block them and be done with it.
I think you’re thinking of unverified accounts, which do get deleted after 7 days, as @watchmanmonitor said.
Members on the suspect list can stay on it forever, and because it only shows the last 200, old accounts are a real problem. I would like that list to be ordered by date of last visit, not date of joining. If a member joined yesterday, then came back today and filled out their profile, there’s still a fair chance that they intend to be an active member of the forum. If somebody returns after six months only to replace their or edit their Spammy profile, there’s little chance they have any interest in the forum other than profile advertising.
It would also be helpful if members could be manually removed from that list. Some of those on our list are permanently suspended, and others are authors or invited guests who have taken part in activities but not posted in the forums. It would be great to have the option to remove all these accounts, so only the truly suspect show up.
Could there be a “flag profile as spam” option for any vigilant users who visit the profile?
Also a badge for “Spam Killer” flagged as spam by user confirmed “Spammer Kill” by mod/admin?
Multiple kills could be displayed by rows of dead spammer icons as seen on combat vechicles/fighter aircraft. 
How about this:
Spam Fighter: Awarded for casting a spam flag, that was approved, and the post belonged to a now-deleted user.
Spam Killer: multiple (5?)
We already have a badge for flagging though.
[quote=“codinghorror, post:70, topic:21436, full:true”]
We already have a badge for flagging though.
[/quote] First flag … is it confirmed the flag was correct?
After the first flag there’s really no encouragement to do more.
Spam killing should be promoted and rewarded as an ongoing positive action. .
I like it. Keep a total. Spam Killer of the month … make it competitive.
Users are very good at flagging spam, and enjoy it. Nobody likes spammers. Encourage this too much and they start thinking of anything vaguely self promotional as spam.
It’s just not something that needs extra encouragement, really.
Okay drop the badge idea if you think it could actually cause problems.
What about being able to flag a profile? Spam or inappropriate text/images?
I’m about to get my first instance of Discourse up and running this weekend.
I was a forum admin, I closed one I ran for our local village because of spammers and the images they posted. It became a daily nightmare. They caused the closure. I gave up the whole website and took it personally as it was a local thing.
I’m actually looking forward to running a forum again. Something I never thought would happen.
Thanks for that. Discourse is software with style.
Thanks to the team and every one who’s offered a suggestion or reported a bug.
I think this is a good idea.
Our user base is small enough that I can check the profile of every new user, and every returning user that I’m not familiar with, but that’s not practical for a forum with a larger user base.