{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083/events","html_url":"https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083","id":115930521,"number":1083,"title":"suppress creating accounts by bots/scripts","user":{"login":"malenki","id":188565,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188565?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki","html_url":"https://github.com/malenki","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malenki/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-11-09T17:54:50Z","updated_at":"2015-11-09T20:21:41Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Having had a look at user accounts created from November 05 to 09 (that is, during the last 108 hours) there are 11318 accounts. A simple \r\n\r\n    grep _name *| cut -d '\"' -f 4| grep -E -i \"[a-z][0-9]{1,3}\" -c \r\n\r\ngives 6576 occurrences of names like this: \r\n\r\n\tWilliam925i6f\r\n\tWilliam925i6fs0\r\n\tWilliam936f5an8\r\n\tWilliam937j8ka4\r\n\tWilliam937l8mc4\r\n\tWilliam937l8md4\r\n\tWilliam937m8n9\r\n\tWilliam939v1zr0\r\n\tWilliam947m8n\r\n\tWilliam947r3yu4\r\n\tWilliam948v2wd6\r\n\tWilliam959x5if7\r\n\tWilliam962h2ro1\r\n\tWilliam975o4he9\r\n\tWilliam9b2h1dn8\r\n\tWilliam9f7j7ja4\r\n\tWilliam9i4d2kx5\r\n\tWilliam9l9f5px2\r\n\tWilliam9o3k6uf1\r\n\tWilliam9q0q0qf6\r\n\tWilliam9q9l8hu1\r\n\tWilliam9q9o9nc4\r\n\tWilliam9r0o8jx2\r\n\tWilliam9r1t1tk6\r\n\tWilliam9s1t9pg6\r\n\tWilliam9s1u0tj7\r\n\tWilliam9s2s0cs2\r\n\r\nThere are also some false positives, but a more strict\r\n\r\n    grep _name *| cut -d '\"' -f 4| grep -E -i \"[a-z][0-9]{1,3}[a-z][0-9]{1,3}\" -c\r\nstill has 4367 hits. Looking for names with spam in them:\r\n\r\n    grep _name *| egrep -i \"premium|cash|bank|credit|mobil|phone|handy|pharma|viagra|free|generic\" -c\r\ngives a quite meagre 30 results.\r\n\r\nWith the above I only want to show that at least during the last four days around 50% of the newly registered accounts seem to be created by bots/scripts and assumedly won't be used for the benefit of OSM. Instead of having to remove these users by hand by admins it would spare work if they had a harder time to register accounts using scripts.\r\n\r\nI know that it is easy to say \"I'd like to have\" but hard to solve the issue. Though I hope you can find a solution.\r\n\r\nSee also: #841\r\n[My dairy entry](http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/malenki/diary/36268) resulting in this issue.\r\nThe data sample I used you can find [here](http://malenki.ch/OSM/data/user_accounts.7z)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/comments/155181628","html_url":"https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083#issuecomment-155181628","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1083","id":155181628,"user":{"login":"Zverik","id":766031,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/766031?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik","html_url":"https://github.com/Zverik","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Zverik/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-09T20:21:41Z","updated_at":"2015-11-09T20:21:41Z","body":"I am strongly against captcha, because it raises the bar dramatically. We should aim to simplify registration process, not make it harder. These spammy accounts do no harm, I suppose, until they vandalize the map."}}