Well, this one came to light only because it happened in a big city where a local mapper happened to notice it. Who knows if there are other bot wars going on in Siberia or elsewhere where there are very few local mappers.
And I don't mean that a bot never should be allowed to edit an object a second time, just that the bot owner should have to review it if that bot tries to change an object twice. On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 09:16 +0200, Casper Kersten wrote: > I think we can rely on reason and logic here instead of extra > guidelines. This was obviously not intentional and we don't need to > write guidelines against it. > > (Re-sent because I accidentally replied privately instead of to the > mailing list) > > Op di 12 sep 2023 om 08:30 schreef Snusmumriken via talk > <talk@openstreetmap.org>: > > I recently happen to witness an edit war between two bots, that > > changed > > a tag on an object back and forth once a day. It stopped once I > > pointed > > it out. > > > > These are the guidelines for bots > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct > > > > Shouldn't they be amended with something like; "A bot should not > > edit > > the same object twice" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk