[OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

[Thomas Wood]

2009/9/2 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/2 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>:
>> I spoke to members of the Data Working Group recently and it seems clear to
>> me (and them) that dealing with vandalism is in general a community problem,
>> not their problem. They are mainly about dealing with those situations where
>> a legal response is required such as copyright violation or where an
>> official email might help.
>
> this sounds reasonable
>
>> Banning people is a possible last-resort,
>
> +1. Even if it might not be very powerful (just create another account
> and here you are again)
>
>> but
>> this does not deal with removing graffiti or spotting it in the first place
>> which should be done by the community.
>
> +1
>
>> I believe that monitoring of graffiti (which this is)
>
> no, IMHO that's no more graffiti but it's removing the covers of
> manholes, maybe even poisoning the drinking water reserve ;-). It is
> too big to remove manually. If like throwing a lot of
> paint-cluster-bombs over wide areas. Think of 880 ways in Ireland:
> that's too much to ask the community to do it manually. Reverts at
> that scale (if they are really 100% useless or harmful) should be
> dealt with in a more professional way than hitting 880 times "h" in
> potlatch.
>
> Not everybody is able to run revert.pl like Richard suggested, that's
> why some members of the community started this thread: to ask the more
> experienced/enabled community members for help in doing so.
>
> cheers,
> Martin

The thread was started for consensus on whether the edits were
vandalism, and what should be done.
Now we're at a stage that we've confirmed it is 100% harmful, we can
get them reverted.

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)