In order to keep the site "clean, safe and warm", I have recently purged all accounts at UNIX.COM which meet the ALL of the following 3 criteria:
- No user activity in 2018
- No posts (zero post count)
- Link in user profile.
In addition, I purged all users who registered but never confirmed their email address.
Also, instead of relying on flawed or inaccurate anti-spam databases or spam classifiers, I am manually inspecting new users in our database and we will actively delete users who are obviously registering on the site only to spam and/or post links to spammy sites.
The reason for this change is that anti-spam databases and anti-spam classifiers sometime block legitimate new users. We do not want any legitimate user with a UNIX/Linux problem (and an emergency need to be solve or helped) to be blocked. "AI' methods (Bayesian classifiers, ANN (artificial neural networks), etc ) are not really 100% reliable for blocking users and spam, and I don't want UNIX.COM to be dominated by "Bad AI" or "AI Gone Mad", so we are going to manage this directly in our database and will delete all new registered users who are obviously spammers.
UNIX.COM is fighting back against "bad AI' and so we will use humans, not machines, to manage user registration and spam until further notice.
Thank you as always for being a UNIX.COM team member.
Resist Bad AI (RBAI)
09-19-2018
