I support this, I've even seen SEO services open notes just to have a "link back to their site"
On Thu., Aug. 29, 2019, 5:49 p.m. Frederik Ramm, <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > 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 >
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