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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 17, 2021, 11:50 by steveaOSM@softworkers.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 7:19 PM António Madeira <antoniomadeira@gmx.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>I'm all in favour of only allowing voting to real OSM accounts<br></div><div>Would the community support a change to the yes/no/abstain templates, to add a parameter where someone might specify their OSM username?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>FWIW, I support this. I get annoyed by “red-linked” users I can’t look up or contact — that’s not very OSM-like. While I deeply respect privacy (and demand it in certain circumstances) as a basic human right, “Open” is our first name. Votes should have some sense of “secrecy,” but in an open project, that’s a ticklish / difficult thing to achieve the right balance of to please everybody.<br></div></blockquote><div>I have no problem with anonymous accounts - but I want voters to have accounts linked<br></div><div>to OSM mapper accounts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What abut adding to vote template<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Voting">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Voting</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"Please use wiki account with the same name as acount used for mapping.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If for some reason this is impossible, please add link at your user pages<br></div><div>at OSM Wiki and in your user profile at openstreetmap.org that mentions<br></div><div>accounts which you operate,"<br></div><div><br></div><div>?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or something similar?<br></div> </body>
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