Tom Hughes schrieb: > On 01/09/09 23:02, Pieren wrote: > >> I'm just questionning myself if I will continue to contribute to OSM >> if the admins are not able to react faster to something which looks >> like the worst form of vandalism. > > As an admin with the technical ability to do these things I'm perfectly > capable of reacting quickly once I believe I have legitimate authority > to act. I do not however plan to appoint myself as judge, jury and > executioner in these matters.
But Dermot McNally already pointed out that this *is* vandalism, at least in Ireland: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/041412.html http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/041397.html What more do you want? A Plane-Ticket to fly there and check for yourself? Sorry for that.. I'm seeing people doing investigation, finding things are going mad, reporting this - and getting ignored. > What we are lacking is not people to take action, but mechanisms and > people to quickly investigate and make decisions on what action should > be take in an appropriate transparent, democratic and legitimate manner. Just as e.g. Dermot McNally did. > A group of people demanding that "something by done" on a mailing list > does not, in my mind, constitute a legitimate authority for me to act. What/Who does constitute a legitimate authority for you? Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
