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

[Tom Hughes]

On 15/03/10 13:21, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:

> 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.

The first thing a new user is (hopefully) going to do is add a 
description - we actually deposit them on the settings page when they 
confirm their account precisely to encourage that.

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

I think it probably is reaching the point where we need to do something, 
but I'm still considering exactly what - they're aren't really any 
brilliant solutions unfortunately.

Mostly likely we will wind up adding a moderation queue and moderating 
new users first few diary entries.

Tom

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