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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 7, 2021, 10:10 by skquinn@rushpost.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 2/7/21 01:18, Dave F wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Oh, look a naive first contribution amended to valid OSM data instead of<br></div><div>lazily deleting it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8397207167/history<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just so people don't get the wrong idea:<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am not the one that deleted this (that would be the effectively<br></div><div>anonymous user_5359), merely the one that wrote a message about it. Yes,<br></div><div>a lot of spammy contributions can be amended to valid data. I can<br></div><div>totally see user_5359's point of view in deleting "contributions" that<br></div><div>have more spamminess than useful data. That said, I have cleaned up some<br></div><div>contributions that appeared to be spam, even finding and moving to the<br></div><div>proper location where I know it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I wouldn't necessarily call these "naive first contributions".<br></div><div>Some are done by professional spam arti-- I mean, marketing and SEO<br></div><div>people who simply don't realize OSM works differently from something<br></div><div>like Google. They see description=* and changeset comments, and they<br></div><div>think "ooh, more places to stuff ad copy". Maybe it should be clearer<br></div><div>what description=* is for, and that changeset comments are nofollow<br></div><div>and/or noindex? Encouraging people to re-use the same accounts instead<br></div><div>of doing spam-and-run would also be nice, but I'm at a loss for how to<br></div><div>do this.<br></div></blockquote><div>And this specific case seems to be one of hundreds/thousands accounts <br></div><div>left by specific professional spammer[1] who ignored repeated attempts<br></div><div>to contact them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] probably calling itself "PR professional" or something similar<br></div> </body>
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