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It makes me wonder if individuals like these should be limited from contributing, because they force a multitude of others out of the total pool of contributors.

Maybe they're doing more damage through their obsessive behavior as compared to a larger group of less enthusiastic members.




At the extreme, people who are outright counterproductive or consistently refuse to collaborate are blocked from contributing.

There's a public log of it: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/


Edit: Comment removed, I'm an idiot, the list is paginated.


> There are literally 20 users on that list

It lists 20 per page. The navigation is at the bottom of the page.

There's 230 pages, so that's about 4600 banned users.


It's paginated. There's 20+ pages of multi year blocks.

(There are many instances of a single person having created multiple blocked accounts though)

Mostly it's a lot of effort to be a barely visible vandal, so people just go away.




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