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<h3 dir="auto">Problem</h3>
<p dir="auto">The user profile descriptions are commonly used by spammers to post spam.</p>
<p dir="auto">Spammers often post extremely long descriptions within a few minutes of the user account being created.</p>
<p dir="auto">Problems:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>Take longer for admins to review.</li>
<li>Bad for OSM search engine ranking as the garbage text negatively affect OSM.org's keyword ranking / authority.</li>
<li>Waste of database resources.</li>
</ul>
<h3 dir="auto">Description</h3>
<p dir="auto">New users ( < 24 hours? ) should only be allowed to post short (512 character?) user description entries.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Screenshots</h3>
<p dir="auto"><em>No response</em></p>

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