[OSM-talk] Spam reporting

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 07:00:07 UTC 2017


On 23-Feb-17 01:28 PM, Daniel Koć wrote:
> W dniu 13.08.2016 16:10, Ruben Maes napisał(a):
>> On vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 15:47 Daniel Koć wrote:
>>> What should I do with clear spam acconts/comments like this?:
>>>
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/thepackersmoversdelhicom
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/39069#comment35334 
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a simple "flag/report" tool available?
>>
>> You can add them on this wiki page: 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spam
>>
>> There's an open issue for a report button on the site itself:
>> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/841
>
> Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but it looks to me that no 
> such spam is actually removed - not even after it's been reported on 
> wiki.
>
> Who in OSM has the tools to take such actions?

A 'who' is an individual, who can be away, busy .. etc.

Instead this should be a group of individuals, any of which can act.

This lessens the chance that they will all be occupied and unable to 
deal with spam.

It can be one address thus making contact easy with that group.





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