[OSM-talk] user status active vs. confirmed

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Aug 13 11:48:47 BST 2010


On 13/08/10 11:16, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote:

> having a look at the api_0.6-schema, i see that a user can have "active"
> or "confirmed" status (and others) what's the difference? Which one is
> used for what?

This is a question for the dev list really, but the answer is simply 
that a confirmed user has been confirmed by an administrator and is 
hence exempt from the normal spam detection.

It's basically used when the spam detector misfires and blocks a user 
and an administrator goes in and confirms the account to reactivate it.

Tom

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