Thanks, I think this is the correct decision. Op do 29 aug. 2019 om 23:49 schreef Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>:
> Hi, > > after two years of discussing the pros and cons, a decision has now been > reached to disallow anonymous comments on notes. > > Up until two days ago, anonymous (i.e. not logged-in) users could create > notes and comment on existing notes; the only thing they could not do > was close a note. > > Now, anonymous users can *still* create notes, but they cannot comment > on or close existing notes. > > In the long discussions leading up to this decision (see > https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1543 and > https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1926) we > agreed that anonymous comments on notes are rarely useful, and when they > are, they come mostly from users who have just forgotten to log in. This > was weighed against recent massive spam and vandalism activities which > rendered the notes system near unusuable in some regions. Perversely, it > is much easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by just > closing them) than it is to clean up their droppings from existing notes. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Joost Schouppe OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
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