Hello, So an anonymous user now is unable to answer to a note he create himself unless he decides to create an account to answer? ? since most anonymous notes lack information, we will be able to close nearly all anonymous notes. we will see if this pushes people to register or if there are so many people who forget to identify themselves.
Regards, Marc 29 Aug 2019 23:46, Frederik Ramm a écrit : 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 [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
