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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">30 Aug 2019, 15:16 by talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On 29/08/2019 22:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Perversely, it is much easier to fight a vandal creating new, useless notes (by just<br></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">closing them) than it is to clean up their droppings from existing notes.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I don't understand the logic of that. Whether a note is 5 seconds or 5 years old, it's still "existing" & it's content, irrelevant or no.t will not change over time.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Spam in otherwise useful notes (typically it was vandal adding multiple single letter comments<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">in all notes within region) makes using them more frustrating and generates notifications<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to all earlier contributors. I was forced to autodelete all notifications about anonymous comments,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">so many were useless "a" spam.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Useless note can be closed and is quickly gone (afaik within 2 weeks by default - both in JOSM<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and on the website). While many notes with useful reports remain open for months and litter there affects<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">more people.<br></div> </body>
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