On 8/30/19 15:47, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
30 Aug 2019, 15:16 by talk@openstreetmap.org:
On 29/08/2019 22:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Perversely, it is much easier to fight a vandal creating new,
useless notes (by just
closing them) than it is to clean up their droppings from
existing notes.
I don't understand the logic of that. Whether a note is 5 seconds
or 5 years old, it's still "existing" & it's content, irrelevant
or no.t will not change over time.
Spam in otherwise useful notes (typically it was vandal adding
multiple single letter comments
in all notes within region) makes using them more frustrating and
generates notifications
to all earlier contributors. I was forced to autodelete all
notifications about anonymous comments,
so many were useless "a" spam.
Useless note can be closed and is quickly gone (afaik within 2 weeks
by default - both in JOSM
and on the website). While many notes with useful reports remain open
for months and litter there affects
more people.
Maybe it was not the vandalism but people trying to understand the
functioning of the notes & comments system? Posting single letters does
not look like a malicious vandalism.
It was still possible to give an anonymous visitor a possibility to
delete his/her test notes (comments) by recording in the browser's
cookie file an unique ID code of this visitor from say 32 digits and
characters. And only if the ID code in the browser coincides, only then
the "delete" button is displayed to the visitor.
Anyway it is not relevant anymore since there will be no more anonymous
notes & comments.
Best regards,
O.
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