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Postitas Sam Wilson kuupäeval 1. mai 2019 – English.

Gosh, the spammers are going for it at the moment on the OSM diaries. :-(

Thank you to everyone who’s handling the deleting of it!

Unfortunately, my feed reader sucks all the bogus entries in before they’re deleted, so I’ve got hundreds of Chinese spam posts (marked as Bengali for some reason), drowning out the interesting stuff. I’d switch to just the English feed, but am getting things via https://blogs.openstreetmap.org/atom.xml so there’s no option for that, and I don’t want to miss the other syndicated blog posts.

Maybe I should just head outside with a GPS… :-)

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Kommentaar kasutajalt Warin61 1. mai 2019, kell 07:48

Read it on the web osm.org/diary

Kommentaar kasutajalt Richard 1. mai 2019, kell 12:47

The bogus entries come in overnight (UK time) and get deleted in the morning UK time, so if you can set the refresh rate on your RSS reader accordingly, you should miss out on the spam wave.

Kommentaar kasutajalt Sam Wilson 1. mai 2019, kell 23:29

That’s a good idea Richard, I’ll try.

Kommentaar kasutajalt Marián Kyral 13. mai 2019, kell 05:34

Unfortunately, I can’t set custom refresh rate in my RSS reader so I had to delete this feed from my reader. It’s terrible big amount of useless entries. To find this post I had to list more than 80 pages back :-O

Maybe will be useful to not automatically publish entries of new users, but hide them until admin review them. At least until this troll will move to another server.

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