[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Forbid anonymous comments for notes (#1543)

[SomeoneElseOSM]

> Ok, there will be always some pros and cons. The problem keeps standing. Any pro-active suggestion to effectively solve this problem?

As has been suggested many times previously, prevent anonymous users from commenting on existing notes.  I would go further than that and also suggest that we prevent anonymous users from creating notes in the first place.

Any value that anonymous note comments and notes have is far outweighed by the problems that they cause - see the long thread above for evidence of this.  The DWG also gets numerous reports of problem notes (often large numbers of notes in the same area at the same time).  As @woodpeck mentions above there are a few things we can do on a note-by-note basis, but without a user account to hang the notes off there's no action that we can take against a note spammer that would prevent them from adding more.



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