[openstreetmap-website] Disallow /changeset/ in robots.txt (#771)

Aun Johnsen notifications at github.com
Fri Jun 27 14:18:10 UTC 2014


After noticing on several occasions, and specially with change sets like https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ChaveiroShopping/history that repeatedly spams advertisement and propaganda in change set comments, this should be disallowed for robots to harvest.

I could add this myself, but rather not fork off just for one line in /robots.txt when it seems like there is a contributor maintaining the same file.

Adding some form of rule, either block robots from /changeset/ or require user login to read /changeset/ will resolve the interest in putting this kind of information in change set comments, and hopefully getting rid of that kind of spam.

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