I’m actually blocking users based on (a) identifying the way that users are editing and (b) user reports and emails to the DWG.
(a) is actually surprisingly effective, but (b) is also useful because it allows to work through a list and make sure none have been missed.
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you definitely can do this (though with automated vandalism it may be not very effective, still it is not case of “You may not revert edits”)
Most likely my translation is confusing you. My point was that as long as accounts are not blocked, it’s best not to engage in reverts. Clarified that.
I was reading this in English.
Especially if account is just throwaway one and stopped editing reverting damage is 100% fine.
Could we just simply put a strong CAPTCHA on the sign up page? Or at least introduce a several hour time delay between registering and when editing is enabled so we have time to spot suspicious accounts before they start the scripted edits?
so difficulty for mass signups should be increased now, more can be done
There are still a lot of obscene words on the maps, it’s a horror for at least 2 days, users have been reading it.
If you see a problem on a rendered map, can you go to that place on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and use the “query features” button at the bottom right to see if the problem still remains? Likely it has been fixed in the data and you’re just seeing a cached version of some old data (either in your browser, or from the tile CDN). If you do see vandalised data stll, please report the object ID that is the problem.
Can I take a screenshot
No - please provide the URL that links to the data object in OSM.
“query features”
No, zoom in and press the “query features” button:
Hurrah!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/48859890/history shows the history, and it may be a bit easier to read at https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/48859890. You can see that that object was most recently vandalised at 20:11 last night and most recently fixed at 5:21 this morning.
everything seems to have worked, but how to clean up on the site?
I suspect that you’ll just need to wait until tiles in the CDN refresh.