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

[mmd]

> There's no way for apache to know if the user is a moderator or not so we can't make redirects conditional like this and in any case the performance impact of doing that is likely to be substantial.

So for our DWG members using _osmtools_ to revert changesets, there won't be any change, since they're using the single object upload on Rails anyway. I'm thinking about whitelisting some IP addresses used by specialized revert tools, such as Thanos. This of course assumes that the tool would be somehow restricted to mods only. (ping @Zaczero).

For sure there will be a performance impact for everyone else. As long as our revert tools can't really cope with the data volume, and we're still trying to work out a good strategy to identify excessive uploads, this seems acceptable to me as a temporary measure. Are you concerned that spike-0[678] can't cope with the additional load?

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