Certainly a noticeable surge in their numbers recently. Guessing they are back at their desks after a break. I’d guess their employers were not keen to give their folks laptops to take home. We need to go back to weeding them out and suspending them more vigilantly.

Never seem a spam account on iNat before. Any examples of what gets spammed here?

That’s because curators flag them as they get created. Or at least do a pretty good job, in combination with the automated spam filter the site has. It’s exactly the stuff you would expect, it is not meant to get you to click on it (if you do great) but rather as search engine manipulation to make …

I saw one once. They kept putting up photos of hotel room interiors and the description was a link to the hotel’s booking site. Not even like a wildlife booking tour, like a straight up motel, with a photo of their queen beds with side tables. :laughing: I think most may try to be a little more s…

I have only seen one, I don’t remember the full details, but it was a write up of an entire football (American) game, the whole game, everything that happened. Very long.

Out of idle curiosity: Where’d they write that up? Journal post, profile or observation description?

Huh… seems like an “observation” In a hotel room might make people think of bedbugs. That’s what came to mind for me. :confounded:

I seem to remember it being an observation. I remember the observation being a score board I think, and than the observation description was the game. I think it was Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers.

It’s funny you should mention that… it’s exactly what someone else jokingly suggested : [image] I think at the time I just flagged it as SPAM. Nowadays, I’d probably flag it as SPAM and ID it as Human (in case it takes a little time to resolve the flag).

You could mark that as human, I guess? :woman_shrugging: Though I absolutely see the SPAM aspect of it as well.

You definitely must be doing a good job!

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Thankfully not encountered any of these yet…

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