Over the last few days I’ve got dozens of new user registrations, all with yahoo email addresses. (Normally I might get one registration every couple days.) I assume this is some sort of spam campaign, so I’m deleting them all. On the off chance any real humans get caught in the crossfire, please reply here and I’ll sort it out. (Not that user registration has much point anyway, about all it does is autofill your name on comment and submission forms.)
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Yahoo used to own Tumblr back in the day before the Verizon buyout. Any chance those are your old Tumblr followers filtering back into the site? I’m not sure if Yahoo used to promote their email service or push Yahoo accounts to Tumblr users, but it’s possible a lot of Tumblr users have Yahoo email addresses if that’s the case.
That seems unlikely, it was a huge spike in signups one day suddenly. And anyway, if they were real people, I expect someone would have replied here asking why their account was deleted by now.