[Moderation] How goes?

[Mark Williams]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009 14:05:09 Peter Miller wrote:
> 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).

+2 or 3 to that one!

Otherwise I'm afraid it's mostly down to spotting stuff in josm or on the 
Garmin - surprisingly often, that one! I'm happy to say it's more beginners 
that malice  around the IOW, but haven't looked to see what dear old Liam123 
has been up to in my absence.

I see much more traffic in talk than here on the subject.

Mark