How about limit new accounts?

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@Fizzie41

I’d suggest starting at something like 25 & 250 first day, 50 / 500 2nd, then 100 / 1000 3rd day?

Not too many new mappers are going to hit those limits right away, & as you say, it would slow the baddies down & give time for the rest of the community to spot & stop them.

It would block anyone trying to map forest/lake/road/multiple buildings as their initial edits, what seems undesirable to me

Adding 6 square buildings is already: 6 * 4 = 24 nodes, 6 new ways - for 30 map changes in total. And it is a reasonable edit in the first day of mapping.

I would go with limit like 1000 changes per day for new accounts, later upgraded up to 50000 per day with bot-flagged accounts having no limit. Which should already put some limits on vandal scripts without harming true users.

But even 1000 changes per day would likely cause problems for say people attending workshops about OSM mapping.

Maybe even higher limits like 5000 changes/day for new accounts would be a better start? Something that basically never will hit even unusual newbies? And will put some pressure on vandal accounts starting from vandalising 9000 objects as the first edit?