On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:45:56PM -0700, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > So the older folks are getting annoyed with the threads. I admit that I'm > starting to get annoyed too. But we have to remember that people are just > joining now and don't have the same knowledge that we have.
It’s not so much those just joining and getting to know the new terms,
but more that people who have been involved with OSM for a more
substantial amount of time but keep repeating their arguments over and
over.
There are some things I agree with: The contributor terms were
unsatisfatory (until they changed, I haven’t yet properly read the new
contributor terms). Other things I don’t, like jumping on every thread
saying why everything is bad (even though it’s probably a gripe with
just one part of everything).
> This is perhaps why it seems to some to be a scheme to quash dissent - it
> may not be intended that way, but it will have an effect of that sort for
> new mappers.
I see two problems in the threads so far:
* The dissenters keep repeating themselves, with the same arguments
already discussed to death
This doesn’t help with:
* The dissenters have some real issues that people keep ignoring or
sidestepping. (The majority response to Australian concerns that
I’ve seen is “well that’s you’re own fault” (and yes, I have said
that previously))
There are problems on both sides.
What the moderation is *supposed* to do is prevent the flaming
continuing, and let real discussion continue.
Simon
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