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Spam accounts can use the 'Autobiographer' badge to get indexed on search engines without having posted any content (or spam). The account remains mostly invisible to the SE network itself unless you search for those accounts, e.g. like this.

user list of buy-XYZ-accounts spam

If index prevention is not possible perhaps pause or retire the badge?

This is sort of a continuation of Remove 'Autobiographer' from Recent Badges, which has been implemented.

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    I’m not sure how indexers work under the hood. Is it likely - or even possible - that they would use these specific filters for indexing? (Just to be clear, I agree with your post; I’m just genuinely curious.)
    – Velvet
    Commented Mar 26 at 8:11
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    From a technical site I belive altering the meta data would suffice, or block meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/9/autobiographer?userid=* outright in the robots.txt is possible.
    – B-Tech
    Commented Mar 26 at 8:46
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    Or only allow the badge after having posted positively received content?
    – Joachim
    Commented Mar 26 at 12:21
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    +1. Relatedly: does a similar effect happen with the “Informed” badge, which you can get just by flicking through the site tour page in half a second? Or is this localized to just the Autobiographer tag? Commented Mar 26 at 13:02
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    @controlgroup 'Informed' and all other badges, except for 'Autobiographer', require some sort of per-site interaction.
    – Velvet
    Commented Mar 26 at 14:02

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