Creating accounts for advertising purposes

General talk
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Hello,

There are many accounts on Osm that are created just for advertising purposes.

For example 1, 2, 3,… Unfortunately there are many others, https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=film+site:/www.openstreetmap.org.

I think all these accounts should be deleted (And can we know the list of admin who have this right).

Thanks!

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I normally report spam accounts in #osm-dev in IRC. The admins are active in that channel and spam accounts do get deleted.

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@SomeoneElse: Thanks for your reply but I don’t use IRC. A simple search on google shows that this phenomenon seems to be greater than I thought, https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sex+site:openstreetmap.org/user/ (accounts with links to pornographic sites).