On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 11:28:41AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ineiev wrote: > > Thank you, yesterday I disabled it for the new users until they are > > accepted as members in any group (the skillset is still permitted). > > That seems like a reasonable compromise. If at least they must be > part of any group in order to have a visible resume. However even in > that case is the resume feature useful?
No idea; perhaps comparable to the bookmarks. > > The next thing is accounts like <petshop-tokio>. they setup no resume, > > perhaps those who create them hope that people will use the contact > > form to email them (even though one have to login in order to contact > > them), or they think that having just "realname + user_name" on some > > web page is sufficient. removing idle accounts is the only idea how > > to counter them I have. > > I am not sure what can or should be done about idle accounts. Many > people make an account with the best intentions. But then nothing > further happens. I don't think that is an abuse in the general case. > I am sure there are accounts created only for the purpose of abuse but > how does one distinguish between the two cases? That's the problem. If exactly nothing happens, we may as well remove the account irrespectively of the intentions.
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