Frederik Ramm wrote: > Oh yeah, and let's also get their addresses and hang them! I am amazed > at how much hostility this Liam123 is able to provoke.
I'm not. I think it's similar to the way people react to virus writers after their computer is infected. I've heard plenty of people suggest that they should get all sorts of severe punishments, up to and including hanging. I'd guess it's frustration at the sheer mindlessness of the attacks. > We must improve our means to detect and deal with vandalism, not circle > the wagons and make participation more difficult for the > 99% of > well-meaning users just because there's < 1% of killjoys. That would be > the worst thing we could do. I agree. I'd like to see a situation where someone can see something is wrong (their road name is spelled wrong, say) and they can fix it, easily. I haven't made major changes in Wikipedia, but I've made plenty of small changes, fixing typos and things, and I did it because it was drop-dead simple. I've got an account, but I didn't even bother logging in to make most of those changes, because it wasn't worth the hassle. A few fixed typos can make an article significantly more readable. In our case, if a town has been mapped using Yahoo, we may not have road names, but if locals can log in and each fill in a few names, the map becomes much better. Russ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
