Exclude spam accounts in all user stats

Feature Requests
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At the main Stats page: https://www.inaturalist.org/stats (accessible in the website header under “More”), the total number of users is currently around 2.25 million.
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My understanding is that figure includes accounts that have been flagged as spam. The total number of users on the Year on iNaturalist 2019 (https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2019) is less than half that, at around 1 million users:
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Can you exclude spam-flagged accounts from the main stats page too?

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That’s a lot of spam!

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Yeah, welcome to our world. :roll_eyes:

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but what if I WANT to know about the Star Trek Free Gambling Way to Life Success? how am I supposed to stay informed??

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:rofl: You’re a Curator - read to your heart’s content :wink:

The new…
… and the already flagged

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Yes please on removing spam-flagged accounts from stats pages. I second this request.

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This has just been implemented, you can see the dip:

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Oh good! Now I have renewed motivation to work on all the legacy spam accounts. Had previously made it back through 1 August 2018.

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@bouteloua feel free to close this if it’s looking good to you.