Frederik Ramm wrote:
I think the situation was not exactly comparable when Potlatch started but I would like to add a caveat; Potlatch did have quite a number of limitations plus a couple of bugs when it started and while these weren't considered "catastrophically breaking stuff" they had enough undesirable side effects that many people have a very negative view of Potlatch to this day, and (especially in the German community) blaming Potlatch for every problem that mappers cause was almost a knee-jerk reaction for a long time.
Many of the "anti-Potlatch" comments were/are really "anti-newbie" comments - getting the hang of any new activity takes time and practice!
Looking at the recent editors in GB a few of the ones making newbie mistakes are using iD (5 since end Feb), but there don't seem to be any "characteristic" errors such as "adding a node that duplicates a building way" or "not joining path X to road Y", which happens with some newbies and P2.
The errors by new iD editors that I have seen have included a bit of boundary deleted by mistake, naming a thing as it's description (e.g. "Footpath"), name nodes that presumably should be on a street that aren't, nodes duplicating ways in the same changeset, and some duplicated tram stations (by a _really_ early iD version - not sure that's relevant). I've not seen anything that says "iD can't appear as an editor on the editor list because...".
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