Continuing the discussion from Discourse Version 1.2:
So I have 2 users appearing in this new “Suspect Users” list, but both of them are legit. What should I do?
Nothing. They should eventually get removed from that list once they make TL 1 or TL 2 (I think)…
It is purely a list of people you should “look into”, it isn’t going to inhibit them in any way.
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One of these is a TL2 & a moderator.
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Well that’s awkward 
Maybe the list can be improved upon then in some way to exclude those who are TL 2 (and it should definitely exclude staff)?
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or perhaps it could be changed to let admins/mods dismiss them from the list selectively.
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To me, it’d be nice if this list contained some potential actions for those that appear there … suspend user, ignore suspicion, etc.
I’ve had the system user on that list for ever, even tho it’s active, approved, TL4, admin and mod… 
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lol, that’s funny! Don’t trust system, he is one shaddy character!
I suspect that it’s because I’ve deleted a few of its posts, like the “edit the first post in this topic to customize your FAQ/Guidelines/whatever” spam…
Suspect users have zero (or very near zero) read time but a completed profile. We found on many instances this correlates very highly with spam accounts.
One way to get off the list is to actually read content on the site!
I suppose not including them if they are TL2 or higher is also a good idea…
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Granted seems a bit redundant as TL 2 typically requires reading topics… So maybe just excluding staff? I’m not sure how you moderate without reading topics either though…
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Because sadly you have to be a moderator account for your user-based API key to do certain things (like granting badges, for one). Granted, a proper multi-API key permission-based system that isn’t user-bound would resolve that edge case.
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