Dealing with rejected spammer registrations

[FTL]

Recently, there's been an influx of spammers trying to register, all getting smoothly rejected by the standard spam controls built into XenForo. While this is nicely keeping my forum free of spammers and staff from having to manually look over those registrations and reject them, they've now built up to around 300 users. Judging by the style and similarity of usernames and email addresses, I'd say it's likely a bot or bots doing this.

I'd like to know, is there any downside to just bulk deleting these rejected accounts to remove the clutter?

Do you have any other suggestions for what to do with them?

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete-direct-messages.9423/

 

[FTL]

Thanks Andy, but it's nothing to do with my question. Remember, these are just dead accounts cluttering up the system and having no effect other than that.

 

[AndyB]

Thanks Andy, but it's nothing to do with my question. Remember, these are just dead accounts cluttering up the system and having no effect other than that.

Sorry linked incorrect add-on. Here you go:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete-rejected.6351/

 

[FTL]

Oh, I like it. I shall have to avail! Thankyou.

 

[Paul B]

Deleting spammer accounts allows them to register again and removes any history of shared IP addresses which helps to identify other spammer accounts.

 

[FTL]

Yes, I was wondering that. Guess I'll have to keep them then. I really don't like them there though, I must say.