On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't understand how some of you seem to be yearning for a power > figure that absolves you from thinking for yourselves just to make > things simpler. You answered your own question: that's exactly what people want - Deus Ex Machina. That's what most people want in life - whether playing the lottery, complaints of "why doesn't the government do X", "I'm not a coder" and so on. For all the people who can actually advance the solution, rather than just discuss the problem, I think there's an obligation to both actually get on with things, and encourage people to switch from passive (however noisy they are at not solving anything) to active, constructive participation. But that means only fighting battles you can win, and I decided about 6 months ago to ignore (or at least not rise to) the eternally pointless tagging debate. Notice, if you will, my contributions to the wiki have skyrocketed since I gave up debating on what to do with the wikifiddlers and just started fixing the problem instead. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
