[Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

[Paul Norman]

> From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m at rtijn.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:18 PM
> To: Richard Weait
> Cc: Serge Wroclawski; data at osmfoundation.org; Ian Dees; talk-
> us at openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)
> 
> It's hard to come up with guidelines when you don't know the specifics,
> but let me throw in some thoughts based on what I read:
> 1) If you were to take administrative action on an account, blocking it
> either temporarily or permanently, how do you prevent the same person
> (or group of people, or bot, using the account) from starting fresh
> under a new guise? My limited knowledge of these matters suggests that
> this would be a Hard Problem. If it is, blocking accounts is a toothless
> measure that doesn't even deserve all that much consideration. If it
> isn't, I'm curious to know how it works, but that's possibly for another
> thread.

I am reasonably confident that the means exist to block someone and keep
them blocked.