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<p dir="auto">I see better control of import/bulk edits as a useful side effect of this to be honest but other people may disagree.</p>
<p dir="auto">The main reason for the importer role though was that it was very difficult to come up with an algorithm that would block the abuse without disputing them - there are importers that have got close to half a million edits in an hour so you would need to increase the maximum by quite a bit to allow them all.</p>
<p dir="auto">Newbies doing lots of edits offline is a concern though that's not good practice and most newbies probably start with iD these days rather than an offline editor like JOSM.</p>

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