On 15/03/10 13:21, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > 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.
The first thing a new user is (hopefully) going to do is add a description - we actually deposit them on the settings page when they confirm their account precisely to encourage that. > (Then again, it may be that the sysads can currently handle the volume > now so this change in the site software is not needed.) I think it probably is reaching the point where we need to do something, but I'm still considering exactly what - they're aren't really any brilliant solutions unfortunately. Mostly likely we will wind up adding a moderation queue and moderating new users first few diary entries. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
