"OSM is mostly a consensus-based community, or a do-ocracy. It was never a benevolent dictatorship, and I have given up (as far as I know, anyway) all power I..... " Your hitting the nail on the head. I totally agree here. The replies are also a bit true pointing to when someone is defined as poisonous. Here comes the trick, when someone really has a different but maybe valid point then he can both be poisonous and not poisonous. This totally depends on what the guidelines are. Andy Allen is here very right IMHO. You can have very valid points and be very right but if the guidelines tell that the project is defined "red" and you think "blue" is better then when you making this point time after time then you can be defined as poisonous (even though you can even be right) as you are draining the community.
So I would love to see more guidelines. These guidelines should be discussable (within terms). But then it becomes much easier to define the targets. [bit offtopic] I don't want to go off topic but the whole discussion about the license is IMHO *also* a bit caused by "the guys" leading it themselves. The lack of clear reasoning and overview why what and where (humanly readable in a decent location depending on the importance of the topic; so home page of osm.org I would say) is missing. This topic is *all* about what is from *"me"* and none understands what a license really is. I doubt even that many don't even know why it really is needed. And now "you guys" are telling that my data can be removed due to others not accepting a license change? So sure this will spam the mailinglist without an end. Such a change must IMHO be informed better. (yes I read many documents/page already about this change) Note: This is not meant a bashing or blaming anyone but as how I see the current situation on the whole license change [/bit offtopic] Note: I totally not believe in an anarchy. The team pyramid can be very low and low level but there must be a lead IMHO.
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