Yeah, just created a dedicated OSM account and start adding points and ways, who cares that they have that password. It does have to be your normal OSM account with "serious" password.
My point is that it might attract people that just upload data without any benefit to OSM (wrong data or data that is added in many changetsets (because that determines the ranking) instead of 1, as you would normally do.. You can even write a script that creates a point in one changeset and deletes it in another. Over and over again. I fear that we might have to do more QA when this gets widely known. I'm not thinking about honest mappers here, just about people that misuse the system to earn bitcoins. regards m On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:20:05 -0300 > Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The reason why I didn't try this yet is that they unnecessarily ask >> me for my OSM *password* when signing up. There are much better ways >> to verify the account... > > "We will give you money once you will share your password" sounds like a > standard unimaginative scam. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
