On 17/01/18 09:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:
It's like clapping
your hands to the supermarket cashier every time he/she prints you the
receipt.
I had to smile at that one.
Reminds me off the developers lists where there is more traffic of the
'I like that' than actual constructive contributions.
I think users should either be able to opt out of automatically
generated changeset comments, or perhaps such changeset comments should
only ever be generated to users who have actively opted in (the "review
requested" could be interpreted as an opt-in even though it doesn't
exactly mean that).
Requesting the review of an edit should always be optional, but for new
editors it should be a part of the process anyway. TAGGING a changeset
for review should not simply be a comment. OSMCha should perhaps be
pushing feedback to the contributor and ONLY to the database when there
is a problem. Can we keep that hand clapping to a separate channel to
the live data in the database please?
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
Could auto-generated changeset comments be marked as such, so that HDYC
could ignore them or at least treat them as less relevant?
We live in a world where much of the traffic on social media is
automatically generated by a bot of some sort. Adding that 'feature' to
OSM to improve quality should be part of the edit process so it informs
a contributor at the time, not generating feedback later. And certainly
as with any contribution, it should be tagged in a way that you KNOW
just how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media'
contributions from the 'constructive' ones.
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