20 lis 2022, 17:06 od dieterdre...@gmail.com: > > > sent from a phone > >> On 20 Nov 2022, at 02:27, Matija Nalis <mnalis-openstreetmapl...@voyager.hr> >> wrote: >> >> Because, someone has to do that summarizing work for extra channels to make >> sense, and it is IMHO only fair that would >> be proposal author (expecting that EVERYBODY will do that SAME task is both >> extremely wasteful, hugely unrealistic, >> and likely to lead to few participating members willing to do that becoming >> burned out prematurely). >> > > > the first and foremost reason for the tagging mailing list to exist was the > desire to offload tagging discussions on a central place, off the other > channels, because people there felt overwhelmed with the discussions needed > to agree on tags to describe the whole world, and it seemed helpful to reduce > the volume on the talk list to a size that can be followed with significantly > less dedication of time. Moving back to discussing tagging everywhere will > make these other channels less useful for some people, I guess. Maybe this is > unfounded because it came out, tagging is relevant all over OpenStreetMap > (i.e. tagging discussions already happen on all channels, lately even on > osmf-talk) and you can hardly ignore it, and because the structure of the > contributors has changed, or something like this. > The new forum may be also more capable of handling large volume of posts - you can easily mute threads and entire categories. As result massive posting in one thread is easier to ignore in its entirety. This is in theory achievable with filtering and so on, but much harder to apply in practice, with mailing lists.
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