-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: > 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.
But we need not make that description or their diary entries visible to other users until they have gained some reputation on the site - presumably by making map edits. Once they become a trusted member, their description and all of their diary appears as normal. There are 2 approaches to this: * Document clearly that their info is hidden until they reach a certain level of well-known-ness, because of spam problems. * Make it look to them like their spamming is working, at least until they log out. If you want to be sneaky about it, you could make them show up to their own IP address. The idea being that if they think it is working, they will not try to work around the safeguards, e.g. by making trivial edits or even random bad edits to get enough reputation. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkugGDAACgkQz+aYVHdncI3NgwCgkjCc3xJ1DxQyCeBnfvwwW/3Z T3kAoKH2dqywl/HKLQGRzB+I/J7G8k0T =6Wui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
