Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 23.02.2017 10:48, Jochen Topf napisał(a): Every larger system that allows user contributions has a "report this as spam" button. If a few people click on that, an admin reviews and handles this. Sounds like an obvious solution that could also work for OSM. Not being able to report proble

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/02/17 10:43, Maarten Deen wrote: On 2017-02-23 11:23, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/17 09:48, Jochen Topf wrote: Every larger system that allows user contributions has a "report this as spam" button. If a few people click on that, an admin reviews and handles this. Sounds like an obvious so

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2017-02-23 11:23, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/17 09:48, Jochen Topf wrote: Every larger system that allows user contributions has a "report this as spam" button. If a few people click on that, an admin reviews and handles this. Sounds like an obvious solution that could also work for OSM. No

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Tom Hughes
On 23/02/17 09:48, Jochen Topf wrote: Every larger system that allows user contributions has a "report this as spam" button. If a few people click on that, an admin reviews and handles this. Sounds like an obvious solution that could also work for OSM. Not being able to report problems is frustr

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Yves
Spam account removing is one thing, Planet curating another : diary entries that belongs to a deleted spam account stays on blogs.openstreetmap.org, which may give the impression that spam accounts are not dealt with fast enough. Agree that a report button would help frustrated users, be ther

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Jochen Topf
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:16:13AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > On 02/23/2017 09:56 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > > feed or inbox, but spam that you actually have to search for is maybe > > not a top priority that admins should dedicate time to removing? > > > > Well the annoyance with spam

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joost Schouppe wrote: > Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual > answer to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you > do it yourself". I've not seen this answer for spam. Is there no easy > way for people to become spam-police if they like to do so? The

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/23/2017 09:56 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > feed or inbox, but spam that you actually have to search for is maybe > not a top priority that admins should dedicate time to removing? > > Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual answer > to things like this in

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Andy Townsend
On 23/02/2017 08:56, joost schouppe wrote: Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual answer to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you do it yourself". I've not seen this answer for spam. Is there no easy way for people to become spam-police if they like

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread joost schouppe
> > feed or inbox, but spam that you actually have to search for is maybe > not a top priority that admins should dedicate time to removing? > Well the annoyance with spam does pop up often enough. The usual answer to things like this in the OSM ecosystem is "why don't you do it yourself". I've no

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

2017-02-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/23/2017 03:28 AM, Daniel Koć wrote: > Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but it looks to me that no such > spam is actually removed - not even after it's been reported on wiki. I read the user blog RSS feed and 95% of spam that I get in the RSS feed is removed by the time I look a