On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/05/13 13:05, Richard Weait wrote: > > Sorry that you didn't get an ad on the front page then. Obviously you >> would now, because the policy has changed. >> > > If policy has changed then could somebody please document what the new > policy is so that I am able to apply it when considering your request?
That would be nice. > Please stop trying to drag me into your ridiculous argument. You know as > well as I do that you are just trying to make some sort of point with this > request because the CWG vote on Monday didn't go the way you wanted. > No, I'm trying to grow the local community for the benefit of the OpenStreetMap community at large. I support the CWG decision. > The truly silly thing is that the CWG vote didn't actually have anything > to do with the ads getting deployed, because I had already done that a hour > or two earlier, based on the fact that discussion had petered out, time was > somewhat of the essence, and nobody had objected to my suggestion the day > before that I merge the pull request to add the two ads in random rotation. > Ah, then there will be no problem with adding one more to the rotation. > In any event there is clearly a difference between advertising an annual > conference that expects to have hundreds of delegates and advertising > regular small scale meetups - whether the event has a geographical scope in > the title is clearly not the only thing that any policy would need to > consider. > So you'll only place ads for non-recurring events? Or that events should only have ads once they expect attendance >n when it could be argued that they don't need an ad? :-) You think the aggregate influence of multiple events should be disregarded? That sounds strange in the context of somebody who adds pubs to the map one at a time over the course of years. But then, I'm an anti-importist. :-) And I'm certain that we'll have higher attendance numbers once our ad is up. > But anyway, the summary is that I do not want, and do not intend to > become, any sort of referee in this ridiculous pissing contest. > Sorry, I'm not interested in such a contest. Please deploy the ad promptly. Time is of the essence. I'm sure other events will want and deserve prominent front page ad placement soon, as well.
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