On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 06:50, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a scenario in which, as far as I can tell, Mary and Mike have > done everything right, but the community has failed them. Which of > these likely outcomes is the 'least worst'? > Thanks Kevin, unfortunately you've summed up fairly well the way that things frequently seem to happen. :-( There will also, though, usually be a couple of lonely little voices who support the (quite good) proposal & make constructive suggestions to change it from "alpha=betas are found in trees" to "usually found in trees, but can be found in caves"; while someone else points out that alpha=charlies are often found in close proximity. Unfortunately, these supporting, on topic, comments are usually drowned out in the arguments over Greek spelling. What concerns me a bit, is that there are 750000+ OSM mappers, which is great! But it would seem that there are only ~50 (? - someone would know) members of "Tagging", with only ~20 of those being active (which I would call contributing to list discussions more than once a week). So 20 of us are deciding which tags 750000 mappers should use, & pretty well have the vote of life or death to new proposals! I know the list is open for anyone to subscribe to, & join in discussions as they see fit, but I'd think that a lot of newbie mappers would have a read of the occasionally strident, & sometimes scathing, comments made towards proposals here & think, Woah, I'm not going in there! :-( We have a formal rule of "any tags you like", but apparently we're > converging on a _de facto_ rule of "ask permission before applying any > tag unless you see that it was the subject of a previously approved > proposal." Is that the rule we want? > No, it's not Thanks Graeme
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