[Tilesathome] Upload permissions for distributed server

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Exactly.  Without the signatures, somebody might be uploading offensive images 
> to random locations every few minutes, and you have no way of stopping them 
> because you don't know who they are
> 
> (You also can't locate their other uploads, so you can't do a "re-render where 
> user=5")

How does Wikipedia deal with this problem?

> - that hasn't been something I wanted to test, because I know how much effort 
> that wikipedia needs to put into stopping spam on an 
> anyone-can-publish-anonymously system (i.e. many people working full-time 
> just on detecting, blocking, and reverting spam).

I say let's test it. If anyone puts a spam tile, or an "offensive" tile 
as you say, over Central London, then a few people are going to see it 
and then it is going to be fixed. If someone is really, really bent on 
vandalism, and really wants to hurt OSM, then they will set up a script 
that gets accounts from the central database server and makes random edits.

A distributed tile system will most likely suffer from (rather 
elaborate) pranks every now and then - someone scribbling something over 
their school location or things like that. These will be found and 
remedied, just like everywhere else, just like in real life. What's the 
big deal?

In fact, I'd even say: There will be pranksters, and it would be very 
desirable to have them play their pranks on the tile side of the system, 
where the tiles can easily be re-rendered and are updated regularly 
anyway, than having them play pranks on the central database.

Bye
Frederik

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