OL has to do more than this, I suspect. At LibraryThing while we profit from users reporting spam, we catch most of it by searching around from the reported spam to the unreported. For example, spam accounts tend to use the same passwords (password hashes), emails, parts of a user name, etc. You can get very clever about this stuff, such that every spam you find manually often nets you 100 you didn't.
Best, Tim On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've submitted spam reports on "people" like lennastrope. Just like > with editions and works, click the "Problem" link and explain why you > think it's a spam account. Support handles those requests usually > within a couple of days (although I haven't checked how long it took > to delete the account I reported). > > Ben > > On 18 June 2012 07:52, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hmm, there must be something better we can do about vandalism, such as: >> >> http://openlibrary.org/people/lennastrope >> >> Seems like we should at least be able to appoint some trusted community >> members to delete bogus works, editions, authors, and users. >> >> - Alan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
