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

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

What about a default filter for the main page that only shows people who
have x number of edits.
Or allow people who are established user to approve or vote on new entries
from new people.
I think there should be a way to report spam effectively, that would be the
best solution.
mike


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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