Correction: "... reject addition of a user description or a diary entry *with a link or a URL*..."
This is to reduce false positives. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi guys, > > The spam on users' diaries and users' pages is getting quite annoying. Some > user just now flooded the main diary page with drug ads. Using rel=nofollow > is apparently not much of a deterrent. > > I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject addition > of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new and has no > OSM edits yet. This would correspond to the Wikipedia user without the > autoconfirmed bit set yet. > > What do you guys think? > > (Then again, it may be that the sysads can currently handle the volume now > so this change in the site software is not needed.) > > > Eugene (osm:seav) > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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