Does anybody think it is a good idea to downgrade 'motorways' around toll 
plazas to 'trunk' highways?  I just noticed a user did this in mass in NY and 
MA along I-90/I-87. [1] [2]  He's even done this in PA a few times. [3]

I've also noticed several problematic changesets this user has done in the 
past.  I've left several comments on some of his changesets [4] [5] and he's 
never responded to them except once, and that was after sending him a few PM's 
(1 per month) till he finally responded only partially to my question in it. 
[6]  That leads me to believe that he's either completely ignoring the e-mails, 
or he's not even getting them.  Also, in that one comment that he did leave (in 
[6]), he pretty much completely ignored my question (if he had been there and 
saw shields for this 'new' route since I don't want to delete 'valid' data) and 
said that he works '12 hour days'.  Honestly, if he can still find time to do 
big OSM edits and work for 12 hours a day, can't he spare a minute or two to 
respond to a comment left for him instead of taking 2 months to reply?  I mean, 
even if I was busy and somebody left a comment on a changeset I did, I would 
try to make a few minutes to respond back within a day or two (week tops) of 
the comment.  This is a community project and everybody needs to work together 
and not ignore each other.

Another problem with this user is that he almost always keeps using the same 
changeset comment of "using bing imagery to update map" which is completely 
useless to tell what he's really doing in each changeset.  Drives me nuts, 
especially with a few other things he's been doing like adding the PA Quadrant 
routes into the ref tags (which btw, I invited him several times to participate 
in the conversation about them here on talk-us back in January '15 so he could 
state why he thought they should be in the 'ref' tag and he kept saying he 
would, but never did via PM, which I can provide screenshots to the DWG if they 
asked for them) even though they are 'unsigned' and aren't for navigational 
purposes since they aren't in the Keystone shields (comment on one such 
changesets I left for him on that subject [4]).  He's also been adding some 
routes that don't even exist anymore, or never existed in the first place (a 
few US 'bannered' highways in a few places). [7]

So, has anybody else had any 'luck' getting more concrete conversations out of 
this user?  I mean, I don't want to have to ask the DWG for a temporary block 
just to ask him to respond to the changeset comments left by me and a few other 
users, unless other users haven't had any luck getting him to respond as well, 
since that option is a last resort.

-James


[1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34537712 
[2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34532178 
[3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34144759 
[4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34237498 
[5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33674410 
[6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/28741710
[7] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/309527 (he only responded to this 
after I dug around to see who added the tags and I sent him a PM) 


                                          
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