[OSM-talk] Spam reporting

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/02/17 10:43, Maarten Deen wrote:
> 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?

Dear god, no.

Look most of the code is already written, somebody just needs to finish 
it off!

Tom

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