<p>The numbers since the start of February look like this:</p>
<ul>
<li>81 posts by active accounts</li>
<li>51 posts by suspended accounts - this will be automatic blocks</li>
<li>57 posts by deleted accounts - this will be manual blocks</li>
</ul>
<p>So ignoring the automatic blocks where, in most cases, nobody will ever see the post it's about 40% spam most of which will only last a few hours before being killed.</p>
<p>Obviously it's not ideal but it's hard to do anything about it without impacting on genuine users - we already get the occasional case of a genuine post (usually by a new user with no edits) getting blocked by the automatic blocker.</p>

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