Hi, On 28.07.2013 22:35, Simon Poole wrote:
I can assure you, that even if now and then it would be nice to have better ways of contacting mappers (aka knowing their real name and address), there is definitely no intention of expanding the information we require for an account
Occasionally, and usually in the wake of some kind of problematic edit, some people call for all kinds of measures that would make it harder for a newbie to cause trouble, or measures that would help implement a "web of trust" - for example, you could define that you want to monitor all edits in your area of interest, except those that come from a list of people that you have defined, and possibly those that come from people trusted by these, and so on.
One component that people sometimes mention is creating some kind of optional "real identity" service, so that if you want, you can somehow reveal your real name and have this verified in some way, and then you get a pink star drawn next to your user name on the API or something like that which would supposedly make people trust your edits more than if they just had a nickname. Just like e.g. amazon.com and some other web sites do in their customer review sections.
I wouldn't rule that out, but it's certainly not something anybody plans to implement in the near future. And I think at least in the discussions I've been part of, nobody suggested to expand this scheme to age, gender, religion, or income bracket ;)
As Simon mentioned, on talk-de there's currently a long-ish discussion with some people demanding that we stop adding user names/user ids to the planet file as those would make it easier for people to "data mine" the planet to profile indivduals.
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