This is more a question for Why are we seeing more bot answers that link us, users, to viruses (I have gone into depth to backtrack then and finding these are very hard to find the origins).
Would there be a way to simply ban answers that use the links that we see now?

some questions may require links, however there should be a process that links have to be verified before they show.

Explanation:

missing when this was just a website without bots/scammers

Explanation:

to change your username, you must:

1) make sure what the username you want to change to is allowed in this community

2) contact a administrator (for example, jaysl)

3) through pm, tell the admin what you want to change to

4) if the username is allowed, it will be changed in a matter of seconds (minutes at most)

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