[OSM-talk] OSM TrustPoints

John Smith delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 10 11:03:01 BST 2009


--- On Fri, 10/7/09, Jack Stringer <jack.ixion at googlemail.com> wrote:

> As osm grows the chances that somone
> will try to damage the map grows.
> Maybe a new user should have their edits checked when
> they first join and then build trust that way. Make it a
> random check but put the priority on the new users. If
> somone does a large edit then it can be flagged to be
> checked etc.

This sounds more like a slashdot type comment rating/anti-spam system, and why limit it to new users, edits could be randomly rated by other users for quality control in general, not just in the prevention of abuse.


      




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