[bryan_w]

This is only for the last six months. They aren't letting the issue fester, but rather there are enough bad actors out there to try 3 billion times to create fake accounts. They are probably deleting 1000s of accounts per day that they detect to be fake

[tyingq]

3 billion in 6 months isn't "1000s...per day". It's ~17 million per day, all caught only after the fact.

I stand by my characterization of "festered".