+1 Please discuss errors with users off-list first. There may be occasions for publicly shaming someone, (e.g. deliberate vandalism) but honest mistakes do not meet this threshold.
Thanks, -- SEJ t: @geomantic s: sejohnson8 "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 14:03, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > On 3/25/11 1:53 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > > Also, before you post publicly that someone in OSM has "screwed > up," I think that, at the least, you should discuss the situation with that > person off-list. Using terms, such as "screwed up," is not helpful to our > mutual effort of creating an open-source map of the world. I'm sure we all > are trying to do our best and welcome feedback about mistakes, if it is > given in a helpful and positive manner. I hope you will keep that in mind > for the future. > > i'd like to bring this point out: in general, try to contact people off > list before calling them out on a public list like talk-us > > things may not be what you think they are, or the situation may have a > quiet, reasonable resolution that's easy to see and > reach once you talk. > > richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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