Agree with you, I don't really like this feature, mainly for two reasons:
1) I see myself as a quite experienced mapper and I guess pretty much 99% of my edits improved the map, I think it's nice to see that someone double checks some of my edits using osmcha or achavi, but I also think there's actually no need to add a comment saying that my edit "looks great". I reckon it might be useful when dealing with new mappers as adding a comment saying "you're doing a great job, keep it up" might improve the new mapper's motivation, but shelling my email address with emails from osm, saying that someone added a comment (automatic and useless) to one of my changeset does only annoy me. It's like clapping your hands to the supermarket cashier every time he/she prints you the receipt.
2) I've always been using the "changesets w/comments" line of the HDYC page to double check suspicious mappers. Usually a mapper with a ton of commented changesets was to consider suspicious, from now on this osmcha feature is going to add a crazy amount of positive/useless comments and then looking at the number of changesets with comments of a mapper is not going to be useful anymore. It also makes things more complex when trying to double check a mapper which already saved hundreds of changesets.
Cheers Marco Il 12/01/2018 15:07, Michael Reichert ha scritto:
Hi, OSMCha started posting comments to changesets a few days ago when a user marks a changeset as good or bad. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43101 I would like to ask the author(s) of OSMCha to disable this feature. We expect to read all mappers incoming message (personal messages and changeset comments). If third-party tools start to post comments to lots of changesets automatically, this is some kind of spamming. If OSM sends to much emails to a user, the user will probably ignore them or treat them as spam. I think that OSMCha should not post a comment automatically except if the user has explicitly asked for feedback or there are quality issues regarding the edit (mistakes, vandalism, guideline violations or anything else which makes it necessary to talk to the user). I post this email to this mailing list instead of filing a bug report a Github [1] because I want to bring this problem to the wider audience and initiate a general discussion on the acceptable usage of the changeset comments API. What are your thoughts and opinions on this issue? Best regards Michael [1] Btw, which Github repository would be the correct one the file the bug report at? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=osmcha+github&t=ffsb&ia=web _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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