On 12.01.2018 15:39, Andy Townsend wrote: > More seriously, any automatic use of OSM messages is problematical > because it devalues the messages that we want people to actually read - > the ones that are composed by and sent be a human, and have actual > useful information in them
I agree. Right now, messages and comments sent via OSM channels tend to be written by humans for a specific individual recipient, which gives them a very good signal-to-noise ratio. I enjoy that a lot and would like to keep things that way. Subjectively, I also tend to find it a bit off-putting when canned messages try to imitate human writing. Compared to obviously automated messages ("your changeset was reviewed by user X"), they can feel somewhat dishonest. I accept that people will feel differently about this, though. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk