[OSM-talk] Spam on Diaries

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Oct 13 22:37:28 BST 2008


Tordanik wrote:
> There has been an increasing amount of link spam on user diaries
> recently, such as these entries:
> http://openstreetmap.org/user/festivalplus/diary/3689
> http://openstreetmap.org/user/allfuckthem/diary/3686
> http://openstreetmap.org/user/allfuckthem/diary/3688
> 
> Is anyone working on countermeasures?

Do you have some suggestions? It's hard to see what we can do about this 
sort of (presumably manual) spamming where people are prepared to go to 
the trouble of registering and confirming an account beyond deleting the 
accounts.

We are now logging the IP address used to create accounts so we can look 
for patterns but I'm not hopeful.

Tom

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