I think the solution to this is actually pretty simple and straightforward.
First, right now there's only a single person who can remove spam from diary entries or profiles. Allowing other people (such as existing site moderators) to address this would go a long way. Second of all, we need a flagging mechanism. I know that Tom wants a complete solution that includes a work queue, etc. I think that's a very laudable goal, but something that just sends an email would be great for now. Third, I think we can get our queue, etc. though either funding, or else through a GSoC project next year, as we did with Changeset Discussions. I volunteer to mentor for it. - Serge On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2014-12-03 17:14 GMT+01:00 Andy Allan <[email protected]>: >> >> Thanks for the analysis, I hope it provides developers with ideas for >> combatting it via the automated spam filters that we already have[1]. >> >> However, spam is an arms race, and I think we might need a different >> long-term approach. I know in the past using 3rd-party spam filtering >> services was too expensive (and not really very OSM-ish either). >> Perhaps we need a new set of human content moderators on the site, say >> 40-80 people with a variety of languages between them. We can consider >> grey-listing all accounts - i.e. the first few posts of every account >> is held for review automatically by default, and enable direct posting >> after we're more certain they aren't a spammer. > > > > > maybe we could have a crowd-sourced approach and introduce a "spam"-flag > that logged-in users could set, i.e. another button in the "comment", > "reply" line which says something like "flag as spam", with a counter, and > if more than x people have clicked on it we would automatically or manually > hide/delete the post. This should work similar to our stackexchange-like > helpsystem (you can flag or unflag with the same button). > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
