[Moderation] How goes?

[Peter Miller]

People are continuing to spot vandalism and funny edits around the  
world - See this post on talk-gb today.[a1]

I am sure that there are many other dodgy things going on that we are  
not even spotting!

Would it be worth reviewing what moderation tools under development or  
already available: In particular tools to allow us to patrol new  
users, manage white and black user lists, spot unusual patterns of  
changes (lots of features suddenly getting changed when they have been  
stable for a long time) etc?

In particular ... are there any plans to get the history tab on the  
main OSM site to only show changes that do actually impact on the view  
area - which would probably be the single more significant change that  
could be made at present to help monitor changes (currently changesets  
that cover wide areas show up all over the place even if no changes  
where made in the area in question).


Regards,



Peter



[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2009-November/004942.html