[OSM-talk] is this allowed ?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 7, 2021, 10:10 by skquinn at rushpost.com:

> On 2/7/21 01:18, Dave F wrote:
>
>> Oh, look a naive first contribution amended to valid OSM data instead of
>> lazily deleting it.
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8397207167/history
>>
>
> Just so people don't get the wrong idea:
>
> I am not the one that deleted this (that would be the effectively
> anonymous user_5359), merely the one that wrote a message about it. Yes,
> a lot of spammy contributions can be amended to valid data. I can
> totally see user_5359's point of view in deleting "contributions" that
> have more spamminess than useful data. That said, I have cleaned up some
> contributions that appeared to be spam, even finding and moving to the
> proper location where I know it.
>
> However, I wouldn't necessarily call these "naive first contributions".
> Some are done by professional spam arti-- I mean, marketing and SEO
> people who simply don't realize OSM works differently from something
> like Google. They see description=* and changeset comments, and they
> think "ooh, more places to stuff ad copy". Maybe it should be clearer
> what description=* is for, and that changeset comments are nofollow
> and/or noindex? Encouraging people to re-use the same accounts instead
> of doing spam-and-run would also be nice, but I'm at a loss for how to
> do this.
>
And this specific case seems to be one of hundreds/thousands accounts 
left by specific professional spammer[1] who ignored repeated attempts
to contact them.

[1] probably calling itself "PR professional" or something similar
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