What about a default filter for the main page that only shows people who have x number of edits. Or allow people who are established user to approve or vote on new entries from new people. I think there should be a way to report spam effectively, that would be the best solution. mike
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]>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) > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > >
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