Apo, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > any ideas on how to deal with vandalism of a technically skilled user?
What you have given us here is not really an example of vandalism. You seem to have someone who thinks that certain roads should rather be tertiary, and who writes arrogant e-mails. (But anyone can be made to write arrogant e-mails given the right input so this doesn't say much.) And while other "vandals" rarely bother to put proper changeset comments (or they write "piss off" and things like that), this guy explains what he is doing and why. He might still be wrong but at least he talks about it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mk408/edits Unless this guy is really good at cloaking his "vandalism", he looks like somebody who does a lot of work and who truly believes that he makes OSM better. It should be possible to engage him in a discussion. I do not know anything about the exchanges between him and the multiple users who contacted him, but does the possibility exist that these exchanges have perhaps been initiated in a way that put him in the defensive? You're telling us how you have spent time investigating and writing scripts and reverting his edits and all - but to be honest, from the information you have given us, it looks like more time should have been spent on the human side rather than on the technical side! I'd say calm down, go slow, try to talk to him - if he doesn't like mailing lists then ask him if he'd prefer a meeting in person or what. It's not like 3500 roads changed from residential to tertiary need to be fixed instantly - if we decide to change them back a few months from now we can still do it. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
