If a user is suspended, why are they listed in observation searches?

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This is the only thread I can find about suspended users (and leaderboard)?
If the user has been suspended - why do they still sit at the top of the leaderboard?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&preferred_place_id=113055&subview=table&taxon_id=519767&view=identifiers

It is a very short leaderboard, and the top 2 are both suspended.

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Do suspended users get their IDs and obs removed?!

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they do not

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I cannot click their profile to see their IDs. Invisible, if not actually removed.

They may still be visible on the obs ?

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Since the topic this was posted to was about spam accounts, I moved your question to a separate topic. I’m also unlisting it because it links to specific users.

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Curator here, suspension does not automatically remove any content, it only stops the person from logging into their account, and prevents non-curators from viewing their profile. But the obs and IDs are still there and anyone can see these on the map or in searches for obs of a certain taxon, suspension just stops you accessing the profile of the user, nothing else is hidden and nothing is removed.

Now, sometimes staff will remove all content of a suspended user, if the reason they were suspended is something that invalidates all their content (usually sockpuppetry), but that is not a standerd part of suspension

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Suspended for bad behaviour ?
But the IDs are reliable.
If you say so.

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Someone could make insults and be really obnoxious but not be entering fake IDs

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