[OSM-talk] Spam reporting

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 23 10:43:59 UTC 2017


On 2017-02-23 11:23, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Put them as nodes in the OSM database ;)

More seriously: Trac?

Maarten



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