Hi,
On 07/13/11 09:01, Steve Bennett wrote:
Did this changeset actually break any guidelines or policies? Is there
anything wrong with it other than the fact that you don't personally
approve? Let's approach the problem in a spirit of long-term
sustainability, not short term witch-hunting.
I think you're misinterpreting.
Like/dislike buttons are quite common and they don't mean that anyone
engages in a "witch hunt". They are just something that helps the
collective to form an opinion - if something is liked by 50 and disliked
by 50 then it is clear that the community is divided; if it is disliked
by 100 then it is clear that this is not what the community approves of.
Also, in case this hasn't become clear, I am not in favour of +1/-1
buttons for *contributors*, but for individual *changesets*.
We're a community of human beings and if someone does something that is
disliked by many others, then that *is* a problem. Whether a single
individual likes or dislikes something is of no importance; but where a
significant number of individuals like or dislike something, a community
opinion is expressed.
I am not a friend of policies and guidelines (even though the changeset
that prompted me to write my original post seems to run foul of at least
the draft policy outlined in
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group/Mechanical_Edit_Policy).
I think there should be policies and guidelines for a few "hard" things
but there will always be "soft" things where setting up rules is
extremely difficult. A +1/-1 scheme for changesets could be a
replacement for the tedious and bueraucratic process of setting up
guidelines. Such a process is quickly drowned by all sorts of "but we
cannot have this rule because there is a legitimate situation where you
would need to break it...", whereas a simple +1/-1 for changesets would
not have that problem. You could ask questions like: Show me a changeset
with more than 5 "+1" votes that uses the so-and-so tag - in the hope of
finding a good example of how that tag is used.
Bye
Frederik
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