Am 01.07.2017 um 12:48 schrieb Walter Nordmann: > hi simon, > > > Am 01.07.2017 um 08:33 schrieb Simon Poole: >> >> I've already touched on this with the sys admins and saved refs to >> the ones that I fixed. However it is unlikely that we will do any >> thing with the information as the accounts are extremely unlikely to >> be reused, and on the other hand, given that *we have a known US >> based SEO company that has created (literally) 1000s of such >> accounts* (but with slightly less spammy edits), and "we" haven't >> taken any action, why should we in this case? > what's about a captcha to disable automatic registration? and a > confirmation mail, which is asking a variable question too? > n the case I was referring too, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/40246 , we are fairly sure that it is a sweatshop that is/was adding them. Outside of causing issues for legitimate users, adding a captcha is likely not to achieve anything
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