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Did you just change your username to answer this question?
– Rand al'Thor
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 19:32
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@Randal'Thor meta.stackexchange.com/a/26518/335772
– Nissa
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 19:36
@Randal'Thor the change was made before this answer, as far as I can tell.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Nov 28, 2017 at 15:58
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We could, but it'd quickly end up being a cat & mouse game. I've done this before - they figure out how to work around it pretty quickly, and now you have patterns that are harder to match. Spammers have been dealing with pattern-recognition engines for a couple of decades now - they've gotten pretty good at working around the most basic checks, and throwing enough noise in that even the more serious ones end up giving you false positives. Still worth doing, but only as part of other, more effective steps to make this unprofitable.
– Shog9
Commented Dec 1, 2017 at 23:06
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There are usernames out there that would defy most peoples' bets. Note this username and activity. stackoverflow.com/questions/24367710/…. I was convinced that it was spam from the username alone, but indeed there's a real post.
– Shawn Mehan
Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:52
Spammers are playing a money game. They will seek paths of greatest profitability. SE sites get a lot of visitors, so the caliber of resistance that SE must apply in self-defense will also need to be high to make the pursuit seem futile, unsavory, unprofitable.
– mickmackusa
Commented May 4, 2021 at 23:18

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