[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add the ability to rate limit edits (PR #4319)

[Harel M]

First and foremost, thanks for all the effort put in this PR, and in general to improve the situation.

I still believe using edits (number of changesets) instead of time would be aligned with what we want to achieve in the concept of allowing to edit more the more you edit, and not more as more time passes.
I think it can also simplify the code...?

As to @Zaczero comments, and this is mainly copying from my comment [here](https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2342#issuecomment-1789728144)
> It's not hard to imagine a newbie who performs 10_000 changes in a day (and does a single, bulk upload).

It's really hard for me, I haven't seen any noob in our community does that, seems like a use case I can't understand, please enlighten me, honestly, no cynicism here. 

>One more argument: reverting 20,000 changes is not difficult, but when it's 2 million or more, it becomes challenging.
Whether we save an additional 10,000 changes or not is insignificant and may potentially cause more harm than good.

I can't stress this enough, but we are still working on reverts for all the vandalism that was intruded in the last month in Israel, super painful, super error prone and far-far from being easy.
Moreover, veteran editors, who are editing for years, have said that they don't feel confident continue editing while vandalism is so disruptive and there isn't the relevant security in place to prevent it.
So, if you ask me, yes, prevent from new users to upload these massive changeset and make sure we are encouraging veteran users to continue editing.





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