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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 05.07.2017 um 17:27 schrieb Greg
Morgan:<br>
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Am 01.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Simon Poole:<br>
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...given that we have a known US based SEO company that has
created (literally) 1000s of such accounts (but with
slightly less spammy edits), and "we" haven't taken any
action, why should we in this case?</div>
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I suspect you are barking up the wrong tree, "we" includes everybody
in OSM, nobody seemed to be in the slightest upset about that when I
published the diary post and nobody seemed to be inclined to run
after the SEO company in question.<br>
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<div>How do you know this is all coming from a US based
Simon? How does targeting US locations make it an US
based company? If it the same occurred in Europe, then I
am sure you would have more care and concern than you are
showing here. Dude I often cringe when I reas what you
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Because I manually checked a largish number of the companies (the
subjects of the ads) last year and they had a trivial tell tale
attribute that pointed (as in 100% sure) to an US based SEO company.
That doesn't imply that the accounts that triggered this thread
(which were created before we saw the big influx in 2016) are from
an US company and I didn't say anything of the sort. Just that we
didn't go after an identified non-offshore offender at the time, so
there is no point in suddenly getting upset now about others playing
the same or similar games. <br>
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The other point is that we haven't seen a similar increase in fake
accounts in Europe, not that we don't have SEO companies here, but
they seem to operate differently, and indeed a number of them have
made contact with the local OSM communities first before adding
anything (and some haven't). <br>
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