than having the users publish their location so they
can be bugged about it.
The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed
(possibly posted by a
bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and
have a bot match articles with missing images to users in the area. It
also would make "requests for better images" feasible if they would
get pushed to the user, instead of them having to check for potential
work.
Why would you even call this "bugging" the users? People sign up for a
reason, and that is to contribute, not to be left alone.