On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:39 AM Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, the original harmful edit was made by user "MedwedianPresident" in > changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61555047 20 days ago. It > was then reverted by naoliv a day later: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61556585. > > naoliv also blocked the user: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/2141
Many thanks to the hopelessly overloaded DWG for handling this. A problem here is that it gives us a tremendous black eye in the press. I wonder how, moving forward, we can lessen the chances of this sort of hate speech propagating off the project. Other projects have found that having a mandatory review and moderation process for new users is helpful, because the sort of person who leaves this sort of mess is usually creating a one-time account to do it, rather than having made earlier sound contributions. If my experience with other open-source and crowdsourced projects is any guide, it only takes a incident or two like this for The Powers That Be in many organizations to start forbidding the use of open-source material "because there's no quality control and too much legal risk." _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
