Good stats OP (a kind of relief also that some stat are not related to merit .)
OP, Can you do a favor and find how many (Member and above were become active in 2018) and from your second post , can you find that how many Member and above was active after May 2018.
Just curios , how many people are active in this community or what is active size of the community.
Hello and thank you.
I am plannig to make a post in near future with information regarding the ranks "Member" and above, which will include also activity.
Regarding the website links in the newbie accounts, I suppose this can easily be solved by adding a rel="no-follow" attribute in the website URL field. I just checked and currently the link is do-followed, which is like a magnet for these spammers. If this link was made to be no-followed, google wouldn't count it as relevant. Hopefully, as a result of this change, the brand new users whose sole purpose is to obtain a backlink to their website will lose interest to join and spam will be reduced, even if it is a small fraction.
I agree, I imagine that this could be easily implemented and good solution.