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Today's Spam

alexkemp 于 2016年九月 7日 以 English 发布 最后一次更新于2016年九月 8日。

I cannot find the IRC details to report these any other way, so here are links to recent spam:

  1. Jabong.c0m Coupon codes, Deals & Cashback… (removed)
  2. การกิน ทำให้คุณดูอ่อนกว่าวัย
    Translation: Earlier today, I’ll get it. To eat some food and make you look younger tender… (removed)

(many thanks to those that removed them)

coda:

I finally found the email from SomeoneElse buried under a hundred others giving direction to report spammers in the #osm-dev IRC channel on OTRS - see OSM wiki help. Maybe next time.

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讨论

Vincent de Phily2016年09月 7日 08:37 的评论

Probably better to edit osm.wiki/Spam

alexkemp2016年09月 7日 14:04 的评论

Hi @Vincent de Phily

Well, no disrespect, my friend, but that link seems a complete waste of time. The oldest entry when I look at it is a user since 10 February, 2015; zero traces, zero map entries. I x diary entry to get a link to his Profile, which contains a link to his site. Spam, lovely Spam, yet zero action for 18 months.

Meanwhile, this public entry has seen both users removed in less than 24 hours. That’s more like it.

Vincent de Phily2016年09月 7日 15:29 的评论

Checking the wiki spam page history, the last batch of spam cleanup was in march. Not great indeed, I thought it was more frequent than this.

It may be effective, but I don’t think that diaries are the right medium for spam warnings : people reading them are looking for news about OSM, not routine admin stuff.

Hopefully https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/841 and its associated PR will be solved/merged soon, so that we finally have a decent reporting system.

alexkemp2016年09月 7日 18:47 的评论

@Vincent de Phily:

I don’t think that diaries are the right medium for spam warnings : people reading them are looking for news about OSM, not routine admin stuff.

I agree fully. However, if there are zero other effective methods to achieve the desired result, practical folks will take the route that works. I see a lot of crying for the moon; Engineers like practicality. For me, Effective wins every time. This particular mini-story is a perfect exemplar for the way in which OSM gets attenuated (‘made thin’) & deprived of air. I think that perhaps the story of Alexander & the Gordian knot has application here, although I’m deeply pessimistic as to any actual solution.

alexkemp2016年09月 8日 09:29 的评论

Me, last comment:

if there are zero other effective methods to achieve the desired result, practical folks will take the route that works

Here is an illustration of the attitude of mind that I’m talking about (it’s not pretty, but it works):

what works

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