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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>20 lis 2022, 17:06 od dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 20 Nov 2022, at 02:27, Matija Nalis <mnalis-openstreetmaplist@voyager.hr> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Because, someone has to do that summarizing work for extra channels to make sense, and it is IMHO only fair that would<br></div><div>be proposal author (expecting that EVERYBODY will do that SAME task is both extremely wasteful, hugely unrealistic,<br></div><div>and likely to lead to few participating members willing to do that becoming burned out prematurely).<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the first and foremost reason for the tagging mailing list to exist was the desire to offload tagging discussions on a central place, off the other channels, because people there felt overwhelmed with the discussions needed to agree on tags to describe the whole world, and it seemed helpful to reduce the volume on the talk list to a size that can be followed with significantly less dedication of time. Moving back to discussing tagging everywhere will make these other channels less useful for some people, I guess. Maybe this is unfounded because it came out, tagging is relevant all over OpenStreetMap (i.e. tagging discussions already happen on all channels, lately even on osmf-talk) and you can hardly ignore it, and because the structure of the contributors has changed, or something like this.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">The new forum may be also more capable of handling large volume of posts - you can<br></div><div dir="auto">easily mute threads and entire categories.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As result massive posting in one thread is easier to ignore in its entirety.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is in theory achievable with filtering and so on, but much harder to apply in<br></div><div dir="auto">practice, with mailing lists.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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