[OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Clifford Snow]

Let us know if anything good comes of the block. I'm sure you'll hear
otherwise.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> The DWG is (now) aware of it :)
>
> There are 8 accounts with changeset comments matching this pattern
> right now. Hoping they don't change it once they start getting
> blocked.
>
> Toby
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
> > I haven't seen anything like that in Washington State. Still getting the
> > occasional "updated" changeset comment.
> >
> > Paul - it seems like they should be reported to DWG. The first user on
> your
> > list, Mike Gothie has 83 edits. One was pure garbage. If the others are
> like
> > that I'd report them all.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Jack Armstrong Dancer at sprynet.com
> > <jacknstacy at sprynet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent
> messages
> >> to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paul Johnson
> >> Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM
> >> To: Talk Openstreetmap
> >> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam
> >> edits
> >>
> >> Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments
> matching
> >> aabbbbbbbb, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single
> >> digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being
> mapped
> >> have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of
> >> anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or
> decipherable
> >> to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma,
> which is
> >> why I noticed them in OsmCha.
> >>
> >> Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261
> >> changesets, all fitting this pattern:
> >>
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3
> >>
> >> I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US
> (since
> >> the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no
> edits
> >> within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account
> >> appears to be from March 5, 2018.
> >>
> >>
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