<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">IMO, the process by which blocks are placed, who does the asking of the user to follow the guidelines, and those with authority to block users needs to be documented and reviewed. If it already is, please provide a pointer. Strikes me as fairly ominous and potentially arbitrary. </span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Can anyone point me to any documentation of this internal policing?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Imports which don’t follow the guidelines may be asked to stop or blocked. This includes imports where the appropriate community consultation wasn’t done, imports with legal problems, imports without a dedicated account, and various weird problems.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Most cases are dealt with via a private message or a 0-hour block which forces them to log on to <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a> and read it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jeff Meyer [mailto:<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Norman<br><b>Cc:</b> Jason Remillard; <a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>; OpenStreetMap US Talk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] MassGIS Building Import Start<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Paul - can you elaborate on the point about users being blocked if not using a dedicated account?<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The guidelines don't point this out & it seems contrary to the spirit of there being no "right" way of doing things in OSM. (Not a policy I agree with, but que sera...).<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Who does the blocking?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Jeff<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1">Jeff Meyer<br>Global World History Atlas<br>
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