Mastodawn

A bit of a moan, but I need some advice.

Currently https://openbenches.org allows *anyone* to upload a bench & photo without registration.

It has been mostly fine but yesterday an anonymous user added some stupid photos. Only the 4th time that's happened.

I wanted to restrict adding & editing to registered users. But today a GitHub user went in and deliberately vandalised one of the entries.

The users have been banned and the changes reverted.

Is there a realistic way to stop this?

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@[email protected]Feb 23

@Edent An idea: only allow people edit/delete attributes if they have been vetted by at least one existing contributor who has been active for X amount of time? And showing the vetted relationship. This might create a social guard rail preventing people from being jerks?

Not my original thought, but based on how lobste.rs did (does?) this when requesting an account.

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Terence Eden Feb 23

@BjornW it is a good plan. I'm worried about the balance between ease of use and locking it down.

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@[email protected]Feb 23

@Edent understandable, but perhaps sharing the vetting process between trustworthy contributors may retain this balance?

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Ben C

@BjornW @Edent just for the data point, I probably wouldn’t have started contributing if this was the case.