2009/10/12 Apollinaris Schoell <ascho...@gmail.com>: > I know it has been discussed before but found a lot of broken data created > by bot bugbuster and this is important enough to bring it up again. > There was some lame response but never really an explanation what this bot > is doing. Some edits are correct others are not. > There is little information in the wiki that there has been some bug fixes. > But how can I know if the bot doesn't break my fixed data again. > Should we allow bots at all? Sure if they are useful and documented. But > there should be a need to do a quality check and review first before someone > is allowed to run a bot against the whole planet. > this bot does so many edits and it's very difficult to even find all the bad > edits in a flood of edits. > Is this a candidate for the new block feature to stop the bot until it's > clearly documented and approved by voting or an other form of agreement?
I guess this is a good topic for http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/moderation/. It's worth at least notifying those on that list of this conver -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
