freebeer
Adam,
some random notes:  I use pascal's site to keep an me on new, closed, commented, and re-opened notes twice or more daily, to try and  stop spam and obviously wrong notes.
I also check a couple dozen problem countries at least weekly, today seeing a few dozen maps.me attempts to delete a spam run i  Indiia from before christmas, due to an old data set.  at the time i closed hundreds of  repeated responses to this spam.
pascal's site is invaluable if you want to record new notes for quiick action, as i am sure yoou know.  however you also see how few users are resolving notes.  and yesterday i re-opened over a dozen notes closed by newbies who had not updated the map.
i opened your notes if i had a comment after your comments drew  my interest.  i did not single you out.  where you say `added' does not interest me.  where you say personal note, i wonder why i did not come to the same conclusion.  it is not that i distrust you,, it is that a few things catch my interest and now notes is the only mapping i can do.
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y0u will recall h0w i had kezb0ard problems.  that one is disassembled now.  soon after i had monitor problems, and  when it would not power on, sure enough, there are thhree bad caps, and the local electronics shop closed recently.  as less than a year earlier my original monitor was stolen, i am still in no rush to again throw away more money when last winter i had no money for food.
so for months i have been unable to edit without a monitor, suffering through painful workarounds on a tablet just to avoid withdrawal and cabin fever.
that is one reason you find my notes now.  i can still spot errors while i surf notes and have opened reports so theyy do not get overlooked.
enough excuses.  the ersatz monitor i connected three days ago seems to take the 1080p50 signal, downscale it to SD before upscaling to an overscanned display, so my potlatch session from last year had unreadable text.
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Despite your valiant effort, the number of open US notes has risen from some 28'000 to 29'000 in a few months.  so many of the opened notes originate from onosm.org, and i'm not surprised no mapper wants towaste their time turning OSM into a business directory.  sadly these onosm.org notes are properly positioned so i cannot delete many as useless spam.
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by the way, last week before leaving to spend the week in cold filth, i saw a bunch of resolved notes with no action, but lost interest to play note cop.  this week i learned without private browsing, that old info gets cached and as i felt like a note nazi, i revisited them, reactivated them with commemt, and several were satisfactorily resolved so  the original poster's info didn't get lost.
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many notes stay open because there are no local mappers, and maybe one of eight active mappers actually pays attention to notes.  there is plenty of past discussion and diary posts on this, and many of your proposed ideas are identical to those hashed out months or years ago on the dutch forum.
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oh, i see i dragged the map back to your resolved note at 183rd place.  i'm xurprised you were able to resolve this one, i would have thought Jon would get to it in time.  what was your source?
That Jon made this inconsisstency public means someone in the area joining osm and discovering it could check it out in person as well.
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almost lost this comment, still getting used to things...
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by the way, all board candidates were asked their solution to the notes problem.  i do not disagree with your approach of actively resolving them, i've seen worse in mexico where periodically all notes in an area get closed with no map changes.
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Be glad the next few days are poor, and instead of in cold dried filth, i'll be in a room on the floor as the temp slowly drops from 30C with time to review those other countries (seems australia is seeing an inrush of spam again).
