About a week ago, vandals began defacing the map in South Korea. Over the course of that week, I rolled back hundreds of changes, and with the help of the sites moderators, I banned over 50 malicious accounts.
  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Wonder if OpenStreetMap could integrate some sort of proof of work system so that it takes actual physical work to make changes not entirely onerous, but definitely something that would be a deterrent to spam editing. Say a target of 10 seconds worth of work to submit.

    Edit: similar to Tor