There is currently an absolutely ridiculous influx of spam user profiles: almost the entire "recent badges" section in the right-hand column of the main page is full of Autobiographer badges for new users with somewhat unusual, but no entirely impossible, names like "Bradshaw Campos" or "Skovbjerg Sanchez", which on closer inspection turn out to all be spammers (many of them for the same target). What can we as a community do to avoid being completely swamped by these spammers? Can we and/or should we appeal to SE staff to mass-remove users with obvious spam links in their profiles?

There is currently an absolutely ridiculous influx of spam user profiles: almost the entire "recent badges" section in the right-hand column of the main page is full of Autobiographer badges for new users with somewhat unusual, but not entirely impossible, names like "Bradshaw Campos" or "Skovbjerg Sanchez", which on closer inspection turn out to all be spammers (many of them for the same target). What can we as a community do to avoid being completely swamped by these spammers? Can we and/or should we appeal to SE staff to mass-remove users with obvious spam links in their profiles?