Andy Allan <gravitystorm@...> writes: > > This mailing list appears to be having some sort of immune-response > over-reaction. We don't like mechanical edits in general. Fine. > Therefore every mechanical edit must be fought against, to the bitter > end. That's an over-reaction. > > No, that can't work any more. If we're going to build a successful > community here in the UK then we need to cope with thousands of people > having their own opinion, not just "no consensus" among a few dozen > people on this list. Having every sensible plan derailed by > "noticeable opposition" is not a scalable policy either. This concept > of regional "opt-outs" is also badly thought through, since nobody is > "in charge" of a particular area (no matter how much they might strut > around on the lists) and encouraging people to self-appoint as having > area-based vetoes builds the opposite of the community that we're > trying to build. > > I'd like to encourage everyone to step back, and think of a better way > to organize ourselves. This isn't it. > > Thanks, > Andy
Thank you Andy. I will repeat on this list what I said in conversation yesterday in a different context: OSM must be protected against any norm within OSM (to the extent that discussing bulk edits is a norm) being misused for disruptive ends. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
