[OSM-talk] Spam reporting

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/02/17 09:48, Jochen Topf wrote:

> Every larger system that allows user contributions has a "report this as
> spam" button. If a few people click on that, an admin reviews and
> handles this. Sounds like an obvious solution that could also work for
> OSM. Not being able to report problems is frustrating to users. The
> whole question of who decides what is spam and what isn't is a bit
> besides the point here, isn't it? Obviously somebody is already handling
> this as you mention and it works. But what would help is a nice button.

Yes, yet strangely nobody seems to want to finish off the work to 
implement it.

Note that the button is the easy bit really, there is much more work 
behind that to implement some sort of moderation queue where the 
information can be stored and presented to moderators.

Tom

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