<p>I don't think that the arguments that boil down to "verifying e-mail at sign up isn't perfect so we shouldn't be doing it" hold any water at all. It does give the community a fighting chance to contact new mappers.</p>
<p>Now you could argue that we should allow users to configure additional (social media) communications means, but that is still not going to help with the people that "don't want to be bugged".</p>
<p>I'll have a look at what happens with the editors a zero-hour block (or any matter of fact) and if that can be improved this weekend.</p>

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