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Google shuts off Map Maker after urinating robot ruins it for everybody
Company announces prank has forced it to ‘take a pause’ as it makes changes to how it approves edits made by users
One Map Maker user pictured the Android robot urinating on the Apple logo outside Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Photograph: Google
The company said it had been moderating all user-generated edits to try to prevent such pranks, but found it impossible to keep up.
Visitors to the Google site were directed on Monday to a forum post that explained the site would be unavailable for editing until a solution could be found.
Pavithra Kanakarajan
May 8
Hello Mappers,
As some of you know already, we have been experiencing escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months. The most recent incident was particularly troubling and unfortunate - a strong user in our community chose to go and create a large scale prank on the Map. As a consequence, we suspended auto-approval and user moderation across the globe, till we figured out ways to add more intelligent mechanisms to prevent such incidents.
All of our edits are currently going through a manual review process.
We have been analyzing the problem and have made several changes. However, it is becoming clear that fixing some of this is actually going to take longer than a few days. As you can imagine, turning automated and user moderation off has the direct implication of very large backlogs of edits requiring manual review. This in turn means your edits will take a long time to get published.
Given the current state of the system, we have come to the conclusion that it is not fair to any of our users to let them continue to spend time editing. Every edit you make is essentially going to a backlog that is growing very fast. We believe that it is more fair to only say that if we do not have the capacity to review edits at roughly the rate they come in, we have to take a pause.
We have hence decided to temporarily disable editing across all countries starting Tuesday, May 12, 2015, till we have our moderation system back in action. This will be a temporary situation and one that we hope to come out of as soon as possible.
While this is a very difficult, short term decision, we think this will help us get to a better state faster. More importantly, we believe it is simply the right thing to do to all of you, our valued users who continue to edit with the hope that your changes might go live as fast as you've been used to.
Thanks,
Pavithra Kanakarajan on behalf of Google Map Maker team
