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<div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px">30 Aug 2019, 19:58 by oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="">On 8/30/19 15:47, Mateusz Konieczny
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px">30 Aug 2019, 15:16 by <a class="" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px">On 29/08/2019 22:46,
Frederik Ramm wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px">Perversely, it is much
easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by
just<br></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="16px">closing them) than it is
to clean up their droppings from existing notes.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px">I don't understand the logic
of that. Whether a note is 5 seconds or 5 years old, it's
still "existing" & it's content, irrelevant or no.t will
not change over time.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px">Spam in otherwise useful notes
(typically it was vandal adding multiple single letter comments<br></div><div style="16px">in all notes within region)
makes using them more frustrating and generates notifications<br></div><div style="16px">to all earlier contributors. I
was forced to autodelete all notifications about anonymous
comments,<br></div><div style="16px">so many were useless "a" spam.<br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px">Useless note can be closed and
is quickly gone (afaik within 2 weeks by default - both in JOSM<br></div><div style="16px">and on the website). While
many notes with useful reports remain open for months and litter
there affects<br></div><div style="16px">more people.<br></div></blockquote><p>Maybe it was not the vandalism but people trying to understand
the functioning of the notes & comments system? Posting single
letters does not look like a malicious vandalism.<br></p></blockquote><div style="16px">Repeated spamming waves of single letter comments<br></div><div style="16px">multiple times for every note in a broad region<br></div><div style="16px">is clearly malicious.<br></div><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px">Eastern Europe was especially affected.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>Anyway it is not relevant anymore since there will be no more
anonymous notes & comments.<br></p></blockquote><div style="16px">Anonymous notes are not disabled.<br></div><div style="16px">Only anonymous comments are. <br></div> </body>
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