On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, 14:56 Andy Townsend, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not convinced that a "fully automatic" email is useful. It'd be > treated (rightly) as spam > I'm not sure a single email when someone starts contributing to a region with a load of useful links is spam? I know it'll likely be recognised as an automated email, but anything to catch new contributors and encourage them to carry on seems like a positive thing?
> . As Clifford wrote previously: > > > I basically review each changeset the user made and provide feedback as > needed, and then send the welcome message. > > That's the useful bit - spotting that a new(ish) user has tripped over > some obscure OSM editor feature and helping them not to make that > particular mistake again. > The people I send welcomes to often haven't contributed much to correct, but as well as mentioning that there are lots of places to get help, I sometimes mention the other editors available, particularly if I see someone creating a lot of building footprints in ID. But the manual task is already quite a bit of work compared to a single automated email. And I only have a small area of West London covered by my OSMCha watch.
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