[talk-au] User Diaries Spam

[Sebastian S.]

Simon,
I know about the reporting option, have reported some myself.
However as outlined on this diary entry https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/172800
there have been thousands in the last couple of days.
Manually responding to so many, likely automatically generated, post seems a very inefficient approach.
It takes 3 clicks and some text typing to report one post.

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On 7 May 2019 6:01:13 pm AEST, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>
>Am 07.05.2019 um 05:18 schrieb Sebastian Spiess:
>> Every now and then I have a look at User Diaries.
>> Today I am on page 26 https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary?page=26 and
>> still only SPAM.
>>
>> I guess this was already noted but I could not find anything on
>> mailing list talk.
>>
>> Who and how is this managed?
>
>You report the user in question.
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Seb
>> PS: its not an new issue:
>>
>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-September/070792.html
>
>This has long been integrated (and announced), see above.
>
>The point to realize is that there are many spam protections in place,
>what you see on the diary pages are those that have managed to "slip"
>through. Counter measures are limited though as there are certain areas
>we don't want this to escalate in to and privacy concerns make using
>any
>third party service difficult if not impossible (not that I would
>expect
>any long term relieve from them to start with).
>
>Simon
>
>>
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