[OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
Hi This came up in the German forum (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45959) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bremeninsider/diary This userpage is advertising different hotels, hotelgroups or hotel reservation sites. Plaese delete! Thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
On 14/11/09 11:53, Peter Herison wrote: > This came up in the German forum > (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45959) : > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bremeninsider/diary > > This userpage is advertising different hotels, hotelgroups or hotel > reservation sites. > > Plaese delete! It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. Normally with diary spammers I would just delete the account but in this case he appears to be a genuine user who has been making edits to the map and has also been making some misguided diary entries so I'm reluctant to delete the account. Note that all references to "delete" above refer to logical deletion where the item is marked as deleted and hence hidden rather than actual deletion of any data in the database. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
> It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the > technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. How about the nofollow attribute for all links in diaries and perhaps user pages? It might discourage spammers a little bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow Cheers, Lars ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
Tom Hughes schrieb: > On 14/11/09 11:53, Peter Herison wrote: >> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45959 >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bremeninsider/diary >> This userpage is advertising different hotels, hotelgroups or hotel >> reservation sites. >> Plaese delete! > It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the > technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. Then we should improve our technology. :) > Normally with diary spammers I would just delete the account but in this > case he appears to be a genuine user who has been making edits to the > map and has also been making some misguided diary entries so I'm > reluctant to delete the account. > Note that all references to "delete" above refer to logical deletion > where the item is marked as deleted and hence hidden rather than actual > deletion of any data in the database. I'm aware of this. Dealing with databases and restraints I know that a simple "delete" would result in inconsistent data. So sone idea comming in my mind are: - block the user (what wouldn't help very much as I'm expecting that the account is already inactive) - delete the content of the userpage without deleting the account itself - create a "deleted user"-account and move all edits to this account to preserve the integrity of the database. This account could be used as a collection for all edits of useraccounts which have been decided to be deleted. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
On 14/11/09 13:06, Lars Francke wrote: >> It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the >> technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. > > How about the nofollow attribute for all links in diaries and perhaps > user pages? It might discourage spammers a little bit. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow Patches, as always, are welcome. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
On 14/11/09 13:12, Peter Herison wrote: > Tom Hughes schrieb: >> On 14/11/09 11:53, Peter Herison wrote: >>> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45959 >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bremeninsider/diary >>> This userpage is advertising different hotels, hotelgroups or hotel >>> reservation sites. >>> Plaese delete! >> It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the >> technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. > > Then we should improve our technology. :) Sure - patches to add a "visible" flag to diary entries are, as always, welcome. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SPAM-User "bremeninsider"
>>> It's already been discussed - the problem is that we don't have the >>> technology to delete individual diary entries at the moment. >> >> How about the nofollow attribute for all links in diaries and perhaps >> user pages? It might discourage spammers a little bit. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow > > Patches, as always, are welcome. I've attached the patch. It changes the htmlize function. As far as I can see it is being used for diary entries, user pages, rss feed and internal messaging system. If any of those should _not_ include the nofollow tag we'd need to add a parameter to the function or something like that. I went for the simplest possible way for now. Cheers, Lars nofollow.patch Description: Binary data ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
