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

[Mike Dupont]

well i looked, they are not geotagged.
so challenge him/her, ask them to geolocate them, ask them to
transcribe them text.
this could be attention seeking behaviour, so give them some attention
, but also challenge them to do more intensive work
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_seeking

mike

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen
<ole at palnatoke.org> wrote:
> 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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