My guess is that the username that a user chooses is not factored in to their identify verification process. I suppose it could be, but it would not be that hard for an attacker to then just randomize their account name choice, and then they would be back at 'square one'.
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Fair point on randomization.
So raising dust, only means they make more bots to meet it.
Chasing sequential usernames forces them to obscure them.
Wonder what the magical "manual verification" step is?
There are separate discussions here. Signup abuse != spam. They are related, and there is overlap - but we cannot solve one problem 100% by just addressing the other.
If delegations are removed from abusive signups, then the damage done there is relatively minimal.
You're right. Remove the rewards and 99% stop their activities on an individual level. That would actually make identifying the multi-account abusers easier.