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

[Lars Francke]

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

I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to
work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam
I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They seem to be focused
solely on blogs and especially Wordpress blogs but they have an
API[2]. They also have Non-profit plans[3] but they require links to
wordpress.com and akismet.com on every page.

Would that be an option? I don't know any but I'm sure there are
alternatives to Akismet out there.

Cheers,
Lars

[1] http://akismet.com/
[2] http://akismet.com/development/api/
[3] http://akismet.com/buy/non-profit/