On 21/07/09 10:05, Alice Kaerast wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:25 +0100 (BST) > Steve Hill<st...@nexusuk.org> wrote: > >> If there is a user who (by general consensus) is making nonsense >> edits and is continuing to do so after having been taken to task by >> email, I would have thought the first thing to do is to ban the user >> from making edits before considering what to do about the edits they >> have already made. Bonus points for being able to display a message >> explaining *why* they've been banned when they next try to edit >> stuff, with details of who to contact to resolve the situation. > > That's the most sense anybody has spoken on this so far! Clearly the > user needs banning from making edits until we decide whether or not to > revert all the edits. I have heard nobody suggest that this user's > edits are not nonsense, so why are we still arguing over what to do > about this?!
Well because banning people is not something we do lightly! As the person with the technical ability to do it I would generally only do so with the agreement of the Data Working Group - only dire emergencies would lead me to apply a block directly without such a request from the appropriate body. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb