On 01/09/09 23:02, Pieren wrote: > I'm just questionning myself if I will continue to contribute to OSM > if the admins are not able to react faster to something which looks > like the worst form of vandalism.
As an admin with the technical ability to do these things I'm perfectly capable of reacting quickly once I believe I have legitimate authority to act. I do not however plan to appoint myself as judge, jury and executioner in these matters. What we are lacking is not people to take action, but mechanisms and people to quickly investigate and make decisions on what action should be take in an appropriate transparent, democratic and legitimate manner. A group of people demanding that "something by done" on a mailing list does not, in my mind, constitute a legitimate authority for me to act. After all no matter how "obvious" this or any other case might be in general terms I can't possibly personally determine who is right in any particular case, nor can I set any sort of quorum as to how big the lynch mob on the mailing lists needs to be to trigger action because I can't know if they are people with a legitimate grievance or are indeed just a lynch mob. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
