Hi, Matt Amos wrote: > bots are bad, m'kay? especially if the person who "violates" the > immutable rule has his own revert server. also, this system becomes > useless the moment someone teaches an editor to automatically apply > the signature or immutable rule.
I might not have been clear enough here. It is plain obvious that this idea will not protect anything against editing. This whole idea deals only with the well-meaning half of the universe - with people who actually *want* to know that someone else considered a certain object "special" and "not to be edited without good reason". It is actually a kind of human-to-human messaging system, not a secret super duper automatic bot revert edit protect whatever. Of course it would make sense (and not render the system useless!) to implement the scheme in editors and have the editor display a pop-up note saying something like "the previous editor of this item has specially flagged this item <list source tag> <list changeset comment> <....>, do you want to upload your change anyway?". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
