Thank you for taking care of this. I'm surprised more people don't find the fakes. I think I've reported 2 in the last 2 weeks. Thanks for fixing this!
IF you have the suspicions, odds are heavily in your favor they are fake, but, a public accusation without any proof will get you banned . But, you can report ANY post here privately and have no fear of consequences like that. Worst case in private reporting is the mod doesn't decide in your favor.
They ban fake accounts daily, we just don't always know about it.
They don't always tell you why, they get a bazillion reports every day and long explanations, even short ones, take time. Occasionally you'll get a word or 2 that will sometimes say why, but don't count on it.
That being said, if, like yesterday, you find picture proof, come here, post a link to that and tag one of the mods in the message of your post. Early on in this thread, it wasn't pinned and mods got in here about as often as any other random thread, but now days, mods run through here pretty regular looking for any such posts.
To MY knowledge, if you find pics somewhere like in the case yesterday, there would not be negative consequences for you no matter what, as long as you were otherwise following the site rules. Just post a link to that here and let the mods handle it.
The rules concerning picture use have also been modified since this thread originally started too. It used to be more of a judgement call by the mods, now the rule says even if it actually is you, the idea that you used them makes you too stupid to continue using this site because of the very real danger the pictures could pose to any random person doing so.
Pretty sure that rule was changed due to the volume of such reports, most of which ARE fake female accounts, but, written as it is now, the mods have a mandate to just end it right then and there and I'm certain that makes it much quicker than before, so they have more time to deal with the much more serious issues elsewhere.
