On Monday 13 October 2008 20:19:38 Nic Roets wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > I'm glad the issue gets to be discussed, as it will show up more and more > frequently. Clearly we need some conflict resolution rules (similar to > wikipedia's "3 revert rule"), oversight and dispute resolution. We need to > strike a balance between giving new users the benefit of the doubt while > not tying down experienced users with the boring work of explaining > themselves and revisiting previously mapped locations. >
> Matias wrote : > > <generic proposal of banning potlatch> :-P > > Or change potlatch so that it will not delete or modify objects last edited > by other users. Then it would at least be easy to delete anything they did. > It would also make it useless. Proper history support would make it easy to revert someone's changes. Maybe a 5/10 minute interactive tutorial the first time one uses potlatch would solve the issue of Iwannaeditnow users. Since anonymous editing is not allowed, people would only have to do it once, I don't think it would be too annoying. Of course, implementing this is the issue :-) > > I think having changesets ... will help alleviate this issue. > > Changesets wouldn't do much. According to itoworld, this user had many > "sessions". It would help in other cases, though. There is no silver bullet for anything (well, except for hunting werewolves). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk