[Wiki Loves Monuments] Advice about what to do with a troll? participant

[Ole Palnatoke Andersen]

Besides, the columns seem to have names(?) on them, so there might be a
meaning somewhere..

Ole

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> well sounds like a job for openstreetmap, the germans map every single
> lightpost, so i would say if they have geotags, keep them and put them
> on osm.
> mike
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Racso <racso at colombia.com> wrote:
> > I'm having a bit of trouble with a really weird (troll?) participant. He
> has
> > uploaded some valid photos to the contest, but also lots of really weird
> and
> > invalid stuff (for example, a photograph of a dead rat found in a park
> [the
> > park is a monument, so let's take some close-up details of it!]). His
> last
> > gift was this golden collection:
> >
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N33.jpg
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N35.jpg
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N39.jpg
> >
> > (Try changing the two-digits number of the filename with other numbers to
> > see even more columns :D [or just check this out:
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Ivan_Tunja
> ;
> > look for the "NXX.jpg" filenames])
> >
> > Apparently, this time he is moving around the inside of an area
> surrounded
> > by some kind of fence and taking photos to each column the fence has. I
> > can't even know if the columns are part of a valid monument because I
> cannot
> > see what is behind the photographer (inside the fence); and even if they
> > are, I think this is just irrational and not useful at all!
> >
> > What do you think I should do? Nothing? Disqualify the images? Let them
> stay
> > until the end of september and then filter them? I don't feel comfortable
> > knowing that about 10% of the contest valid images are photos of almost
> > equal columns :S ("Hey, check out Colombia cultural heritage! Yep,
> columns!
> > [And dead rats!]"). Also, I'm getting tired of following this guy's
> > contribution to filter the non-useful, even offensive pictures (I won't
> > allow the rat image to reach the judges!). I think that, while the rules
> > don't state that uploading dozens of almost equal photos is invalid, this
> > guy is clearly stretching the spirit of the competition.
> >
> > Any advice of how to deal with this kind of behaviour will be really
> > appreciated. If you think that I'm wrong and I should let him be happy
> and
> > participate with his images, tell me so; It will also be appreciated.
> >
> > Racso
> >
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