I wasn't aware that there was a way to tag no street light on a pole.  I assumed that if there is nothing there, such as no street light, that there isn't anything to add.  My understanding from your note (which always has very limited context) was that there was no need to add a streetlight here.  Notes are public so there is nothing saying who can't or can act upon them.

It would be helpful for all mappers, not even just me, to have more details on what exactly you mean in your notes.  Notes are public, and there really isn't anything saying someone can't add the applicable info to the map.  In this case, tagging that something (street light) isn't present isn't a default tag on a power pole node, so I wouldn't expect it to be common knowledge for that to be added as a tag.

I am not purposely doing it.  That would be dumb.