spam map descriptions

[mathewlippincott]

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[btbonval]

Any attention is good attention, amirite?

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[btbonval]

clickable link: http://mapknitter.org/map/view/lr-colorado-september-2013

[ebarry]

Spam comments are affecting community reception of this platform. They are not socially acceptable and a real turn off to getting new people interested in mapknitter. How can we fix this?

[jywarren]

These aren't comments but map descriptions. We have to check if login is required to change a maps description. This relates to @shaief's request that anonymous users be allowed to continue using the site.

We could disallow anonymous editing of map descriptions except on initial map creation. On Jul 29, 2014 9:39 AM, "Liz Barry" notifications@github.com wrote:

Spam comments are affecting community reception of this platform. They are not socially acceptable and a real turn off to getting new people interested in mapknitter. How can we fix this?

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[btbonval]

Does mapknitter not have the same spam fighting techniques as publiclab.org? A good start would be to ensure mapknitter, and all of our services, have similar spam protection techniques.

I believe they all use publiclab.org to sign in, so there is at least one spam-prevention technique in place during signup. Is there a process to cleanup via moderators and spam buttons and ban buttons? If a user account is banned on publiclab.org, does that cause repercussions on mapknitter.org?

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Liz Barry notifications@github.com wrote:

Spam comments are affecting community reception of this platform. They are not socially acceptable and a real turn off to getting new people interested in mapknitter. How can we fix this?

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[Fastie]

Several of my maps have spam links instead of a description. Does that mean that the description I wrote is lost?

[jywarren]

Cfastie: yes.

Bryan: users can do a number of things on mapknitter without logging in at all, which is currently intentional and related to Shai's request. I agree that requiring PL login would resolve the spam issues. On Jul 29, 2014 10:53 AM, "Fastie" notifications@github.com wrote:

Several of my maps have spam links instead of a description. Does that mean that the description I wrote is lost?

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[btbonval]

@jywarren is there at least some kind of captcha or human verification for anonymous users to prevent bots from mass wiping the site?

[jywarren]

Yes a recaptcha but they've become less effective since we implemented it. I think we could lock editing descriptions to map owners only, where maps do have owners. Some do not.

We should double check that unowned maps require a captcha to edit the description... On Jul 29, 2014 12:55 PM, "Bryan Bonvallet" notifications@github.com wrote:

@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren is there at least some kind of captcha or human verification for anonymous users to prevent bots from mass wiping the site?

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[btbonval]

there's always going to be an issue where actual humans are defacing the pages. so long as you allow anonymous edits, there's nothing stopping them.

Only suggestion I can make at this point is some way to revert edits to reverse the damage.

[ebarry]

So, a spammer just overwrote not only Beryl's detailed description but also my lat/lng coordinates in our staten island map so that it loads in the wrong hemisphere and i feel this is totally unacceptable:

This map (http://mapknitter.org/map/view/2014-06-27-nyc-statenisland-northshore) is being painstakingly created by an EJ group, to date 6 people have had four meetings, roughly 20 hours gathering and entering data--and this is still an active project. I am already underway to fix these errors, but we all need this platform to be able to support community data collection and presentation.

[btbonval]

It looks like version control was done by hand in plots2.

Rails has a versioning gem that should take all the work out of managing version control and reversion for any particular model or model field. https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail

We should add this functionality to any place which can get overwritten. Not sure who gets access to revert to an older version. Default assumption would be the map's owner, but maybe we could open it to anyone who has signed in properly.

[ebarry]

as a side issue, why would any other user EVER be able to overwrite the map owner's lat/lng? or description?

@lizbarry http://twitter.com/lizbarry

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bryan Bonvallet notifications@github.com wrote:

It looks like revisioning was done by hand in PublicLab.

Rails has a versioning gem that should take all the work out of managing version control and reversion for any particular model. https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail

We should add this functionality to any place which can get overwritten. Not sure who gets access to revert to an older version. Default assumption would be the map's owner, but maybe we could open it to anyone who has signed in properly.

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[Fastie]

Twelve of the 18 maps in my dashboard have spam instead of my description. Many of my maps are now located in the Amazon Basin.

[Sreyanth]

Just saying: Please check the POST request handler for these comments. Check if the authentication and the authorization of the request is being taken care of i.e., are you checking if the commenting user is the owner of the map (or some other condition, as per the application logic).

Thanks Sreyanth

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Twelve of the 18 maps in my dashboard have spam instead of my description. Many of my maps are now located in the Amazon Basin.

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[btbonval]

@Sreyanth , @jywarren commented earlier that important users were advocating for anonymous write capability. Unauthenticated users are authorized to write comments and perform edits. It is unfortunately by design. We need one or two more features in place to allow anonymous edits but prevent permanent data loss. You can think of it like Wikipedia in that way.

Wikipedia solved the problem by storing all changes over time. Some users may revert to previous versions of a page when bad things happen. We should be able to do the same thing.

[jywarren]

Yes, I know you folks are frustrated, but I'm not who you have to convince -- I recommend you raise it on the organizers list and discuss with those who've made such a strong case for anonymous use, to figure out a way to address this. I don't think they're on this thread -- Shai, for one.

Also, once there's some consensus about what to do about it (bryan's suggestion of version history sounds great) if you feel we need to devote some staff time to address this, Liz, we should talk about it on staff call.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Bryan Bonvallet notifications@github.com wrote:

@Sreyanth https://github.com/Sreyanth , @jywarren https://github.com/jywarren commented earlier that important users were advocating for anonymous write capability. Unknown users are authorized to make comments and perform edits. It is unfortunately by design. We need one or two more features in place to allow anonymous edits but prevent permanent data loss. You can think of it like Wikipedia in that way.

Wikipedia solved the problem by storing all changes over time. Some users may revert to previous changes when bad things happen.

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[shaief]

Hey sorry for joining only now. I'm trying to find a way to balance between anonymous and registered only editing. I guess that at least one way to solve it is to forbid registered maps to be edited anonymously. This way anonymous edit of maps is possible. I think that this is what @jywarren wrote above. I think that this will be a good balance.

[ebarry]

Current proposal for an initial fix: Disallow anonymous or non-logged-in edits of description and location for maps which were created by a non-anonymous/logged-in user.

[jywarren]

closing; this seems to have worked and haven't seen complaints since

[ebarry]

Bringing this issue back up because in December 2015 Hagit pointed out to me that all her pre-2014 Jerusalem maps have vandalized descriptions, as do many of the Gowanus maps.

If it is currently the case that we have "Disallowed anonymous or non-logged-in edits of description and location for maps which were created by a non-anonymous/logged-in user" working on mapknitter, can we look forward and think about how to allow owners to lock their maps so that no one other than them can edit the location and description?

[jywarren]

how to allow owners to lock their maps so that no one other than them can edit the location and description

This is automatically the case. After the changes made as of Dec 23 2014, any map that has an owner cannot have its description or location edited by non-owner.

Can you link to the maps you're referring to? Are the maps owned, or anonymous? If anonymous, would you like to request we (as admins) make the maps owned, and by whom?

[ebarry]

Here's an example of a map i (or someone in GLAM) made but apparently specified as "anonymous" that has been vandalized: https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-12-25-gowanus-canal-hurricane-sandy-survey

I guess i should go through Gowanus maps and claim any that are anonymous and request them to be transferred to me or another mapknitter steward account?

[jywarren]

Yes, as any anonymous map has no owner, so we cannot lock them. Thanks!

[ebarry]

I believe that these are my maps: https://mapknitter.org/maps/union-square https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-08-06-brooklyn-newtowncreek https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-7-31-brooklyn-gowanus-ir https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-11-19-brooklyn-gowanus https://mapknitter.org/maps/test-20120928-washpark https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-09-28-nyc-washsquarepark-parsons https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-08-21-nyc-bronx-soundviewoysterreef-orrp https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-12-20-gowanus-canal-post-sandy-sewage https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-10-20-gowanus-gcc-treegiveaway

These belong to Jen Hudon: https://mapknitter.org/maps/jennifer-hudon https://mapknitter.org/maps/unionsquarejenn https://mapknitter.org/maps/jennunionsquare

Most if not all of the remaining Union Square maps that are on the first page of results when you click the regional link to maps in the New York/New Jersey region that have people's names in the titles were either made by my students or by folks who attended the workshop i held in Union Square. These have spam in the descriptions but i don't see how we can get in touch with folks to claim them all. Any ideas?

[jywarren]

Yes, you can look up their emails by username on PublicLab.org, no?

Or, its possible that admins can edit these fields, and since they are not anonymous maps, they won't be vandalized again (I.e. the vandalizing predates the fix). Can you try?

Or are you not an admin in Mapknitter and we should make you one? On Jan 4, 2016 4:14 PM, "Liz Barry" notifications@github.com wrote:

I believe that these are my maps: https://mapknitter.org/maps/union-square https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-08-06-brooklyn-newtowncreek https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-7-31-brooklyn-gowanus-ir https://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-11-19-brooklyn-gowanus https://mapknitter.org/maps/test-20120928-washpark https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-09-28-nyc-washsquarepark-parsons https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-08-21-nyc-bronx-soundviewoysterreef-orrp https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-12-20-gowanus-canal-post-sandy-sewage https://mapknitter.org/maps/2012-10-20-gowanus-gcc-treegiveaway

These belong to Jen Hudon: https://mapknitter.org/maps/jennifer-hudon https://mapknitter.org/maps/unionsquarejenn https://mapknitter.org/maps/jennunionsquare

Most if not all of the remaining Union Square maps that are on the first page of results when you click the regional link to maps in the New York/New Jersey region that have people's names in the titles were either made by my students or by folks who attended the workshop i held in Union Square. These have spam in the descriptions but i don't see how we can get in touch with folks to claim them all. Any ideas?

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