What about a default filter for the main page that only shows people who have x number of edits. <br>Or allow people who are established user to approve or vote on new entries from new people.<br>I think there should be a way to report spam effectively, that would be the best solution.<br>
mike<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com">seav80@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi guys,<br><br>The spam on users' diaries and users' pages is getting quite annoying. Some user just now flooded the main diary page with drug ads. Using rel=nofollow is apparently not much of a deterrent.<br><br>
I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject addition of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new and has no OSM edits yet. This would correspond to the Wikipedia user without the autoconfirmed bit set yet.<br>
<br>What do you guys think?<br><br>(Then again, it may be that the sysads can currently handle the volume now so this change in the site software is not needed.)<br><br><br>Eugene (osm:seav)<br>
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