On 20.01.12 01:30, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 19/01/12 19:08, Matthias Meißer wrote:
https://twitter.com/#!/osmblogs
@osmblogs seems to be a mirror of
http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/atom.xml
Both are mirroring user diaries, including the spam, of course.
/al
On 20/01/2012 00:30, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 19/01/12 19:08, Matthias Meißer wrote:
Hi, as our spam protection by trigger on people that mark a entry with
the words spam seem to work,
Not sure what you're saying here, but if you think writing spam as a
comment has some effect then you are very
David Earl wrote:
BTW, the response to 'why don't you do this' is so often 'why don't
you do it yourself'.
Oh, absolutely. I don't think that was meant as a criticism. @osmblogs is a
great idea.
cheers
Richard
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On 01/20/2012 10:21 AM, David Earl wrote:
we get currently a lot of spam, that
seems to be send out via our twitter account anyway:
https://twitter.com/#!/osmblogs
That twitter account is completely unofficial as far as I know. I have
no idea who even runs it. The openstreetmap account is
On 20/01/12 09:21, David Earl wrote:
BTW, the response to 'why don't you do this' is so often 'why don't you
do it yourself'. We're supposedly a 'do-ocracy', so since when was
anything official. That's a slap in the face for doing, isn't it?
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying
On 20.01.12 10:25, Tom Hughes wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to explain that it was
nothing to do with the OSM admins as such and it wasn't something we had any
direct control over.
To get to the root of the problem:
How is the spam happening? I would suspect:
*
On 20/01/12 10:15, Andreas Labres wrote:
On 20.01.12 10:25, Tom Hughes wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to explain that it was
nothing to do with the OSM admins as such and it wasn't something we had any
direct control over.
To get to the root of the problem:
How is
On 20 Jan 2012, at 10:15, Andreas Labres wrote:
On 20.01.12 10:25, Tom Hughes wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to explain that it was
nothing to do with the OSM admins as such and it wasn't something we had any
direct control over.
To get to the root of the
We already had that, someone wanted to advertise their company and used
highway=primary to write the name on the map. It would NOT be nice to
see that more often.
On 01/20/2012 11:28 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:
Wouldn't this result in a new process for spamming:
• Register
• email validation
•
Am 20.01.2012 11:28, schrieb Thomas Davie:
On 20 Jan 2012, at 10:15, Andreas Labres wrote:
Wouldn't this result in a new process for spamming:
• Register
• email validation
• Spam the database with some bogus data, perhaps spelling out your spam with
motorways
• Post diary entry.
Yes indeed,
On 20/01/12 15:51, Matthias Meißer wrote:
Am 20.01.2012 11:28, schrieb Thomas Davie:
On 20 Jan 2012, at 10:15, Andreas Labres wrote:
Wouldn't this result in a new process for spamming:
• Register
• email validation
• Spam the database with some bogus data, perhaps spelling out your
spam with
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi,
Yes indeed, I just tried to show of different alternatives. So why don't
we use just captchas before registering new users?
Because they don't make any difference to real humans, and it is my
belief that the spammers targeting us are real
On 20/01/12 16:27, clara wrote:
But on a practical note: How about using Mollom?
That works quite well on discarding spam automatically per posting, and
asking for confirmation with a captcha for those cases where the system
isn't sure.
http://mollom.com/
Because I'd never heard of it until
Hi, as our spam protection by trigger on people that mark a entry with
the words spam seem to work, we get currently a lot of spam, that
seems to be send out via our twitter account anyway:
https://twitter.com/#!/osmblogs
So I'd like to ask if we could add a delay before twitter them. This
On 19/01/12 19:08, Matthias Meißer wrote:
Hi, as our spam protection by trigger on people that mark a entry with
the words spam seem to work,
Not sure what you're saying here, but if you think writing spam as a
comment has some effect then you are very mistaken.
See http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dbadwal/diary/9248
What is the procedure to flag that and its author for removal ?
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 18:41, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
See http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dbadwal/diary/9248
What is the procedure to flag that and its author for removal ?
The author seems to have been removed already.
What I'm wondering is why there are no rel=nofollow
On 14/01/10 17:58, Lars Francke wrote:
What I'm wondering is why there are no rel=nofollow attributes on
the links. The last time diary spam was reported it was implemented
for all user-provided content and as far as I can see it is still in
the code. Perhaps something about the order of
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