On 27/10/2020 23:50, Erick de Oliveira Leal wrote:
Some time ago I reported that several anonymous SPAM notes were being
created in Brazil, through the "Report" option available in the note.
Someone told me it was not SPAM, so I showed the amount of notes in
sequence, so they blocked the IP of this account. But now they started
creating several SPAM notes again, I reported again and the user @mavl
told me that I should close the notes and not report them anymore, but
the "report SPAM" tool exists for that, if not to report SPAM cases ,
then it should be removed from the selectable options. For example,
note 2401429 is a mere copy of note 1230095, another example: note
2401510 merely copies the name of an existing element under it. All
notes are sent in sequence, anonymously, copying from non-anonymous
notes or existing elements. Please block this IP, it is getting in the
way.
It would help if, when reporting new issues like this you explained what
the actual problem is (such as "note 2401429 is a mere copy of note
1230095"). Unfortunately on the issue here your report was instead just
"SPAM". You then (I presume after sending this email) explained the
actual problem, and as soon as that was received the admins were alerted
by the DWG member handling the issue to see if they could help.
However, as Mateusz has said, IP blocks are not effective, as most
regular internet users won't have a fixed IP address (and anyone who
wants not to be tracked by IP can ensure that every request is from a
different one). In some cases of unwanted notes it's possible to detect
a problem note from content, but here that's not easy here because
"detecting exactly the same contents as another note somewhere else" is
(a) a computationally heavy task (b) will yield false positives and (c)
is trivial to evade.
There will come a time, I suspect, when we no longer allow anonymous
notes to be created in OSM (anonymous note comments are already
blocked). We already do get spammers (real spammers trying to advertise
businesses, which this note adder in Brazil isn't) creating one account
per edit.
Best Regards,
Andy (from the DWG)
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