[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] API for user blocks (#1618)

[Frederik Ramm]

User blocks do not necessarily have anything to do with the user making bad edits. Someone could have made bad edits three weeks ago which need to be reverted but they won't get a block since the issue doesn't call for it. Another person could be making the same edits today and we block them in order to stop them. A third person could be making totally legitimate edits but due to a misconfiguration not see emails generated by changeset comments, and receive a block because that's the only way to get their attention.

I wouldn't like seeing blocks used to treat an user as "more suspicious" because this would, in turn, lead to calls for *removing* past block information from users who have "done nothing wrong"...

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