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
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