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<p>A full delete would do that yes but we don't normally do that for spammers - we do what the site calls "hide" which just sets the user status to deleted without purging other data.</p>
<p>That's a deliberate choice on my part, to preserve information about the spammers so we can analyse things like what IP addresses and email domains they are using.</p>

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