On 20/01/12 10:15, Andreas Labres wrote:
On 20.01.12 10:25, Tom Hughes wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, just trying to explain that it was
nothing to do with the OSM admins as such and it wasn't something we had any
direct control over.
To get to the root of the problem:
How is the spam happening? I would suspect:
* registration, email validation and diary post within a short timeframe?
* without anything else (especially OSM editing) in between?
Maybe this could be identified by kind of a bonus point system where you
* get some minus points in the first place
* get bonus points by uploading tracks and/or editing OSM
* maybe even get bonus points as time goes by
* and get allowed to post, finally
* or at least prohibit links if you don't have enough points
Indeed. We could give each user a score, call it the "spam score" or
something and then suspend the account if it gets too high.
Oh wait, we already do that:
http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blob/HEAD:/app/models/user.rb#l194
Yes, there are some problems, and given this weeks outbreak of spam I
will be looking to change some things when I get a chance.
One slightly strange thing has been that there have been quite a few
with no links in, which seems a little odd, and means that there is no
impact on the score.
Tom
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