A spammer is periodically posting messages in Chinese to the User Diaries.
These diaries follow a distinct pattern:
1. Reading machine translations, the messages advertise a variety of
products and services that are against the law. This may be to attract
people who would be reluctant to contact
On 3 December 2014 at 15:46, Andrew Hain andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
A spammer is periodically posting messages in Chinese to the User Diaries.
Thanks for the analysis, I hope it provides developers with ideas for
combatting it via the automated spam filters that we already have[1].
2014-12-03 17:14 GMT+01:00 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com:
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
On 3 December 2014 at 16:25, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
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
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
On 03/12/14 16:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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
Hi Mateusz
Have a look at http://poitour.ch ...
It's work in progress of a semester thesis project of a student here
at Geometa Lab (sorry for the german front end language).
Source code will be available soon on github.
Yours, Stefan
P.S. Regarding our conversation/thread about
On 3 December 2014 at 16:33, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
First, right now there's only a single person who can remove spam from
diary entries or profiles.
Not strictly true - any user with site administrator priviledges can
remove spam - see my previous link to the code. There
There’s another suspicious post at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Medyum%20Y%C4%B1lmaz%20Eren%20Hoca/diary/28134,
which is Turkish.
I personally prefer an increase in human blog moderators.
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Antje 2...@minoa.li wrote:
There’s another suspicious post at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Medyum%20Y%C4%B1lmaz%20Eren%20Hoca/diary/28134,
which is Turkish.
I personally prefer an increase in human blog moderators.
I agree. It's usually pretty obvious
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