Title: Why so many users?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Why so many users?

 *  [erikacon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikacon/)
 * (@erikacon)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-so-many-users/)
 * **I have a page load of users – all of them subscribers but their emails look
   like advertisements. Isn’t that a bad thing? Or is that normal?
    [http://countrygarden.ceconn.com](http://countrygarden.ceconn.com)

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-so-many-users/#post-2155056)
 * yes.
 * It’s a bad thing, and it’s normal.
 * They can’t hurt anything. As long as your default user status is subscriber, 
   they have no access to anything other han their own profiles.
 * I have tonnes of them myself.
 * The only thing really is that they can clog your database over time.
 * Personally, I deleted them.
 * Then I installed a variety of plugins to deal with it.
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/)
   and most recently [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sabre/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sabre/)
 * I refuse to use captchas which is part of sabre, but without using that, spam
   registrations are still getting caught. I was getting about 10 registrations 
   a day yesterday. so far I have 0 that have gotten by the plugins

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 * [subscribers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscribers/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

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 * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-so-many-users/#post-2155056)
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