Am 18.09.2012 18:24, schrieb Richard Weait:
The one account
involved started this little thread was asked to use an import account
three times. Then they created their import account.
I just can second Richard and Grant:
if a person is contacted three times by any working group and seems not
at all to have reacted on their message a three day short block of the
account seems to me as a fine and fair method of gaining some attention.
So please cool down.
A general statement on the use of a seperate account for bot and
imports: this was discussed years ago. And for my understanding the
majority of the community agreed on it within the given discussions. As
other stated: while the licence change process we very much learned that
seperate accounts are a really good idea.
So maybe it was not written down in some guidelines, but since years the
"imports/bots => seperate account" rule is present and mainly accepted
and respected in the worldwide community. The change of the guidelines
therefor is only a writing down of the practice used sind long term.
Best regards,
Michael.
PS: I'm not member of any working group, just writing his personal
opinion as a long term member of the OSM community (since 2006/2007) and
reader of multiple OSM mailing lists (>10) since years.
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