On Monday 13 October 2008 18:26:52 Frederik Ramm wrote: > Nic, > > > I have previously reported how someone with the screen name > > 'thebigfatgeek' has messed up a roundabout in Pretoria. > > I'm sorry this happens. > > > I would be grateful if Frederik can run his revert tool again. In fact I > > wouldn't mind if it's in a cron job. > > I am approached every now and then by people who would like something > reverted. It is quite a dilemma for me, in most cases I don't even know > the place or the people involved - so who am I to decide who is right > and who is wrong? > I'm one who requested such a thing :-) (Just saying for the benefit of others who may read this.)
> It is easy in cases where someone says "oops I made a mistake here, can > someone help fixing it". But in cases where someone says that someone > else is doing bad work and that someone else is not available for > comment, should I really simply remove their contributions? I don't feel > I have a right to - there is no law against bad edits! > Problem users are problematic :-) Although we might think that admitting the mistake and asking for a reversal would be logical, these are people who are by definition careless and disrespectful of other people's work. > I really want to do the project good, but I have a feeling that > reverting edits that are considered bad by a few users is probably > abusing my powers as a script writer. I would do that for an area I know > and where I could conceivably also fix things by hand, but for Pretoria...? > Some edits are clearly bad even if the region is unknown, obviously spelling and such can't be decided by someone that's not familiar with the area, but a grey area usually does have a black and a white area on each side. > What whout the others suggest? Or do if they were me? I could of course > just publish the script (those with a clue can write their own anyway), > but would this perhaps run the risk of giving tools to clueless people > that they cannot wield properly? > Please don't publish them, the clueless users breaking maps might get them. <generic proposal of banning potlatch> :-P I think having changesets and better support for history in editors will help alleviate this issue. I don't think any action is required, other than maybe displaying a notice about this. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
