On 01/07/17 11:48, Walter Nordmann wrote:
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?
That's a very rosy view of captchas, which are now mostly an arms war
between spammers and the innocent victims who get to try and decode ever
more obscured captchas as the spammers get better at automating them.
In any case most of the SEO related issues I have seen in OSM do not
appear to be automated - they tend to give the appearance of being
outsourced to India or the far east and done at least semi-manually.
Tom
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