Hi, On 03.04.2018 02:20, Clay Smalley wrote: > I'm... shocked. This is a really confrontational way of addressing > things, and it really doesn't make me feel good contributing here.
Without knowing you, or the particulars of the mapping, or the other mapper, let me suggest one thing: Try to see this from the side of the other person. Imagine: * you have been doing a lot of mapping in your local area; * you have developed a certain way to map certain objects, that might be a little out of touch with what is considered the "right" approach elsewhere in the project, but you don't notice or care; * someone you don't know decides that the way you've been doing it is wrong, and sets up a challenge in some sort of task managing program you don't know; * one or more other people who have never edited in your area, suddenly start appearing and making very particular changes, driven, as you find out, by the task managing platform. This can easily create a sense of "I'm under attack" in the individual mapper. They weren't consulted; they weren't aware; all of a sudden, the locusts are there, and the mapper doesn't even know who sent them and why. Someone has overruled your judgement and doesn't even bother explaining it to you. Now if you're a seasoned OSM contributor then it would probably not take you long to find out that there's a MapRoulette task, and probably also a discussion or explanation related to that, and also whom to contact if you want to raise an objection - but not everyone might have that level of knowledge. I think that it is no surprise that "making you feel good contributing" might not the foremost thing on the other mapper's mind at that moment. Not assigning blame to anyone here; just trying to help humans understand other humans. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us