[OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hi guys,

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.

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.

What do you guys think?

(Then again, it may be that the sysads can currently handle the volume now
so this change in the site software is not needed.)


Eugene (osm:seav)
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