User talk:Spammer
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I've created this account as the final destination for spammers. It's not possible to totally delete user accounts on MediaWiki but is possible to rename and merge them into an existing account. So after a spammer has been blocked, their account will eventually be merged into this one to get them out of the user list.
- Great idea, thank you! The new users log was getting pretty bloated with a bunch of bogus accounts. --Vox 07:51, 22 August 2011 (PDT)
- Won't that be an idea to help users who fail reentering their old user ID caused by MediaWiki-failures, for example User:Huffy49? Create a Dummy, merge the old User into the Dummy, let Jack rejoin with a new User Huffy49, and merge his contribs from Dummy into Huffy49? U. Kulick 08:23, 22 August 2011 (PDT)
- Shouldn't be a problem. The user IDs created by spammers are not their real names, they're usually randomly generated by account creation tools. The odds they'll pick the same name again are small (but not impossible).
Steevithak 11:14, 22 August 2011 (PDT)
- Shouldn't be a problem. The user IDs created by spammers are not their real names, they're usually randomly generated by account creation tools. The odds they'll pick the same name again are small (but not impossible).
- Excellent! --Dustin McAmera 11:39, 22 August 2011 (PDT)
