Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments matching aabbbbbbbb, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours. So far the items being mapped have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or decipherable to any casual observer. These have started appearing in Oklahoma, which is why I noticed them in OsmCha.
Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261 changesets, all fitting this pattern: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3 I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US (since the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no edits within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account appears to be from March 5, 2018.
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