On 21/05/2018 12:33, Andrew Harvey wrote:
Thanks for doing the research on this!
... and thanks from me, too.
On 21 May 2018 at 19:32, Andrew Davidson <thesw...@gmail.com
<mailto:thesw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
After wasting many hours on this I've come to the conclusion that
a zero-tolerance policy is the only real option we have. So I've
now started to just revert them without bothering to look to closely.
I completely agree, my suspicions line up with what you're found,
these edits are doing almost no good and a lot of harm.
Until they engage with the community and work with us instead of
against us, I support auto-reverting. I've CC'd the DWG, in case they
have any guidance or suggestions on what we can do to stop this.
I think that the approach that you're taking is pretty sensible - it's
not "revert everything I don't understand" but "revert things that match
the modus operandi of known spammers".
From a DWG perspective, it would be useful to have details of the
accounts that have been "identified as spammers" (perhaps because
they're adding nodes in the middle of Federation Square or around
Circular Quay that you know from frequent visits obviously don't
exist). We'll have a look at see what commonality we can find (whether
they're all from en-US locales, for example).
Best Regards,
Andy (from the DWG)
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