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<h3 dir="auto">URL</h3>
<p dir="auto"><a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1081287173" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3398" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3398/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3398">#3398</a></p>
<h3 dir="auto">How to reproduce the issue?</h3>
<p dir="auto">There have been a number of recent examples of the following sort of activity, but lets give a specific example:</p>
<p dir="auto">A user account was created with a name "francisdouglas88614" to "force through" some changes that they local community decided were not correct. The UID was 19014237, and due to it being a problematic returning vandal they were reverted and blocked until they contacted the DWG with <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7071" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7071</a> (see previous messages in that chain of blocks for the history).</p>
<p dir="auto">They then delete that account, and create another one - francisdouglas88614 / 19021744, and try and force through their changes again. They were reverted and blocked with <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7074" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7074</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto">They then delete that account, and create another one - francisdouglas88614 / 19031302, and try and force through their changes again. They were reverted and blocked with <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7077" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7077</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is just 1 username here; there are at least 9 or 10 others. I don't believe that it is unfair to "name and shame" this account as this user has been widely discussed <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/odd-edits-in-italy/97706" rel="nofollow">elsewhere</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto">Basically, this is pretty much as predicted by <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="321496318" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1853" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1853/hovercard?comment_id=387682751&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1853#issuecomment-387682751">#1853 (comment)</a> .</p>
<p dir="auto">In additions to previous problems noted such as <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1290219693" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3585" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3585/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3585">#3585</a> .</p>
<p dir="auto">To be clear, the idea behind <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1081287173" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3398" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3398/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3398">#3398</a> absolutely makes sense; but we should prevent it from being used by bad actors as it currently is. There may of course be reasons why a long-term-blocked user should be able to delete their account, and they can always ask the admins to do that. What I'm suggesting is that a user shouldn't be able to engage on vandalism, get caught, delete their account and repeat the process ad infinitum.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Screenshot(s) or anything else?</h3>
<p dir="auto">n/a</p>
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