[OSM-dev] Vandalism how to proceed?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 07:57:25 GMT 2010


On 23 March 2010 17:44, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know. at least it could delay things a bit.

You'd then have to keep tabs on multiple accounts, not that reverting
wouldn't potentially cause the same problem but it would take the
abuser longer to figure this out.

> how? as soon as multiple edits on a object are done a revert tool must know which versions of which tag to reset too. Another user could have done a useful edit in between.

You need to do it as soon as possible to limit other people from
updating things, you could track the minutely change files...

> I try to write tools to do it without creating more damage but this is really tricky. the programming part is really the simplest of it.

Others have already written revert tools, I wouldn't suggest writing any more...

> To be really sure to revert things I'd need to go back analyze all his edits and the to see them all reverted the next day. this is way beyond the time I can spend.

Others have already done this, why reinvent the wheel?




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