To reply to both yours and Dave F's post in one, as I've got the same comment:
*Constructive* criticism is *absolutely fine*. No problem whatsoever to
politely point out flaws and areas for improvement.
I have issues, I am afraid, with disrespectful terms in criticism, and I've
said this before. Terms like "a joke" IMO, I'm afraid, come across to me as
rude. Polite and constructive criticism ("I believe that iD has a few flaws
where the usability could be improved: these are (list)" is perfectly fine.
I just believe more respect is due to open-source developers, as a general
point. People like the iD developers and others work hard in their own time,
for no pay. I'm just asking for politeness, that's all. Not a veto of criticism.
Nick
-----"John F. Eldredge" <[email protected]> wrote: -----
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From: "John F. Eldredge" <[email protected]>
Date: 24/05/2013 02:34PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap
On 05/24/2013 06:15 AM, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
I don't regularly use iD myself (JOSM user), but, on behalf of
its developers: negative comments like this are unhelpful and denigrate
the vast amount of hard work that has gone into producing the editor.
If you don't like it, complain about it to your friends in private,
change the code, but do not slag it off on a public mailing list!
Nick
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From: razor74 <[email protected]>
Date: 24/05/2013 09:36AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap
The worst editor ewer. With this will result many damages
and
incompatibilities. From newbies ofcourse. Potlatch is
the best blend for
advanced users and for new ones with alot of info and
very friendly
interface. This is a joke. Take it down before destroyed
the existent maps
with alot of hard work on them!
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So, you feel that non-programmers, who have justified reasons to
complain about the design, such as the silent removal of highway tags,
should not be able to let their opinion of the bad design be made known?
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