[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Limit number of edits per user and day (#2342)

Tom Hughes notifications at github.com
Tue Aug 6 08:40:43 UTC 2019


>From a practical point of view you need to define "edit" somehow - the obvious answer is changesets but that can be easily gamed so it will presumably need to be the number of objects added/changed/deleted.

Doing it per day is probably excessively expensive from an implementation standpoint because it requires resetting counters at some point, or keeping say hourly counts and expiring those over a day old. A token bucket type algorithm like the download limit probably makes more sense.

>From a personal point of view I dread dealing with the resulting complaints...

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