Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread stevea
Andy, thank you for those excellent instructions. I've had an off-list conversation about these "honey-traps" (or whatever you might call a sociological spoof, a "social hack") and it is good when we have our wits about us and are wary to click on email links (and other "loose places" where we

Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Thanks, fellas. All the page I got from "Megan" says is: "The user Megan Ritchie does not exist Sorry, there is no user with the name Megan Ritchie. Please check your spelling, or maybe the link you clicked is wrong". So I guess she was already deleted before I got to even see it? Thanks

Re: [talk-au] [EXTERNAL] Re: Low quality road classification contributions in SA via Microsoft Open Maps Team - contact point?

2021-08-29 Thread Andy Townsend
At the risk of repeating what might have been said earlier, I'd suggest commenting on one or more of the problem changesets, explaining why "residential" (or whatever) isn't a good fit. If the users concerned don't reply then we (the DWG) can try and draw their attention to the comments

Re: [talk-au] [EXTERNAL] Re: Low quality road classification contributions in SA via Microsoft Open Maps Team - contact point?

2021-08-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Through overpass, plus random sampling as I'm editing; I'm still seeing a substantial amount of misclassifications. https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIk ~2400 ways. https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1aIl Most of these outside of townships appear to be still very poorly classified, and last edited 2

Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread Andy Townsend
I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones mentioned). In the one example that I got to before the user was deleted, the profile had a link that claimed to be to a porn site. If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the "report user" button in the user

Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au
If user is not existing then its spam profile was likely deleted. Is this possibility mentioned at page of deleted user? If not - canĀ  you link it? Maybe it can be improved and mention that deleting user is common reason for spam accounts. In general, in such case I would go to an user profile