On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * changesets with the same comment that doesn't correspond with the > > thing they have traced, like "This is a House" > > Unfortunately, like subjects on many PC support forums, the average > contributor doesn't seem to be able to make useful changeset comments. > Whilst they are not useful comments, I'm not sure they are any worse > than maybe the majority. > Have a look at them all. There is a difference between comments that are not useful, and comments that have nothing to do with the edit at all. I know all about comments because I contact every new user who makes an edit in my part of London, and the suggestion I most often make is to leave descriptive comments because they leave none, or useless ones. But this user comes back every week or so and makes another damaging edit with a misleading, identical changeset comment. That doesn't look like a string of innocent mistakes to me. > > > * lots of features deleted, in a way that doesn't look like an accident > > I only looked in detail at one. Have a look at more, then, as I have! Some have no valid geometry at all, just noise. Some do, along with deletions and bad geometry. What sort of person remains very confused over many months, deleting and adding data in a useless way and adding comments like "this is a house" or "this is a nursing home" again and again, and ignores messages from another user offering help? I came to my conclusion after looking through lots, and I appreciate it's a big step to block and revert but I have been watching this user for some time and it looks to me like vandalism. If I set out to vandalise OSM, the most clever way would be to keep making lots of small, innocent changes that would probably be missed. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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