Thanks!
We’ll check into them.
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Just closed & hidden all of them (I think?) created in the last couple of days, & user’s IP should now also be blocked.
Apologies to anybody who’s legitimate Notes were caught in the cross-fire! 
Closed the series from 6 thru 13. (The sequence looked like the person set out some kind of route… like the person who mapped a series of phone points in the middle of nowhere wilderness from Turkey to Germany, kind of bread crumbs for others to follow.
Doesn’t look like the IP ban works — or at least the troll’s motivation seems to be greater than the hurdle of the ban.
For some people it seems to be a challenge to mess with open systems to make the world just a little bit worse.
Unfortunately, we can only try our best
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Do you have the ability to ban by an IP range? If not, I could see that being pretty easy to circumvent.
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Have another couple instances of these anonymous notes getting a bit messy/obnoxious. Over the last 30 minutes someone’s taken it upon themselves to create 30+ notes in New York complaining about abandoned railroads. Since they’re anonymous, you can’t open a dialog with them.
A few in Syracuse like: Note: 5077799 | OpenStreetMap
Then it picks back up east of Utica and occasionally becomes profane like 5077820. I started to remove some of the railroad and then realized quite a bit was last touched by the same person… apparently people remove these sections and this person claims they do exist despite running through buildings and along streets without being discernable in any map.
For the other instance, it appears someone started at the beginning of the alphabet and tried to find any unmapped townships in Ohio and added them as a note like: Note: 5068198 | OpenStreetMap . Thankfully they got tired around partway through “B” but it’s like - cool, that’s the type of project that you should really discuss on this forum and responding in the note is kinda worthless as it doesn’t notify anyone.
“(expletive)'s gonna (expletive)” I guess?
This isn’t really similar to the other “anonymous note” cases above. In this case I suspect that a reply might actually be seen because that “abandoned railway” (that goes straight through a building) can only be seen in OSM data, not in any of the viewers at osm.org - I suspect it’s added by a regular OSM mapper, and that they’re creating the anonymous notes because they don’t want to delete the “railway through a building” because of the aggravation that that would cause (despite it being not really defensible as a railway=abandoned in OSM terms).
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On topic of note trolls:
Note: 5077872 | OpenStreetMap opens note complaining that Note: 5077719 | OpenStreetMap was closed that claimed that Note: 5069354 | OpenStreetMap was valid (note intentionally misplaced as they chronically opened useless/misleading notes in Kraków causing DWG to autohide anonymous notes in that area)
and Note: 5077869 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5077716 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5077686 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5069350 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5062317 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5061376 | OpenStreetMap - Note: 5061236 | OpenStreetMap chain
(also send message to DWG email)
Can we get larger area where anonymous notes are killed by DWG bot?
And yes, they could create disposable accounts. But it either increases effort for them or makes easier to zap all notes from one account.
You did, but you haven’t actually said what OSM objects they changed and why those edits were wrong (e.g. by linking to a forum discussion that says “things like X should be tagged Y” or an objects history where several people (not sockpuppets) have edited something to another value. If you reply to the ticket email your received with those details we’ll be able to deal with it much sooner.
Ah! a different ticket. I thought that you were referring to your previous ticket Ticket#2025120310000595.
I also linked damaging content there - misleading changeset comment claiming that other user violated fictional rule, which also confirmed that it is another block evading account of Temat-Droga / Philet2137 / FILszew / user2137, / Frag_Mcfrag / user2137papież / 2137xd / mocnysiuwaks / xxxVroCxxxVroCxxxVroCxxx
(as content, knowledge and behavior utterly mismatched brand new account)
I guess that waiting until they caused enough damage to get ban solely based on actions on that new account is also possible banning policy.
I have one more argument: AI slop. I mentioned that in one region, I noticed strange notes from a prohibited source. I also noticed nearby notes that were copies of notes left by other cartographers.
Today, I discovered, in the same region, notes consisting of phrases that I used in my notes in another city. However, the note is completely devoid of meaning; the words are completely unrelated.
Either this is a stubborn idiot, or a dumb robot who was asked to improve something in OSM (and he went to Wikimapia and recent notes). And something tells me that the latter threat cannot be addressed without banning or deanonymizing anonymous notes.
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In general, I got tired of it, and I suggested hiding the form after creating 10 anonymous notes.
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