[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] rate-limit changeset comments (Issue #4196)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

> what a reasonable rate limit might be

Is it feasible to have vastly lower rate limit for say first 100 changeset comments made by a given account? Actual new users are very unlikely to start making many of them.

Is it feasible to exempt DWG (account with block ability) from this limit?

If yes, how many non-DWG accounts are there with heavy changeset comment use? How many are blocked accounts (assumed to be vandals)? Is it possible to list them?

Is it feasible to add bot-type account flag allowed to exceed this limits, without ability to block accounts? I have seen it in few places. Though I guess that it comes with process for assigning it and obviously complicates code.

> Don't you think I know there's a problem? Who do you think has been dealing with the mail queue!

It was not intended as message for you, or implying that you are unaware of this problem. And I guess that info about mail queue state would be even more useful than much narrower piece of statistics that may be poorly representative.

But it, I think, is useful to record any indicator of the problem size and confirmation that it is an actual problem and to record this.

Sorry if that sounded like implication that you cannot figure how to access such statistics or similar. Though not sure how it could be better phrased.

> not repeated comments that add nothing new

It seemed to me that recording some nonsubjective info confirming that problem exists could be useful.

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