[OSM-talk] Spam reporting

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 02/23/2017 09:56 AM, joost schouppe wrote:
>     feed or inbox, but spam that you actually have to search for is maybe
>     not a top priority that admins should dedicate time to removing?
> 
> Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual answer
> to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you do it
> yourself". I've not seen this answer for spam. Is there no easy way for
> people to become spam-police if they like to do so?

Becoming "spam-police" would require the privilege to close any account
and hide/delete the account profile. This is not a privilege that I
would like to hand out lightly to someone who likes being police,
especially since over-eager "spam-police" have mis-identified genuine
user profiles in foreign languages as spam in the past.

For me, the nuisance presented by the occasional spammy user profile is
not big enough to warrant handing over account deletion privileges to
spam hunters, but I am happy to change my mind if someone can explain
just how a spammy user profile is a problem for them. As I said, I get
that spam diary entries or spam notes can be a problem because they
actually pop up somewhere, but user profiles...?

Bye
Frederik

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