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<div>It is not only his language ability that he overestimates. His Mediawiki programming has a cargo cult flavour and he has a fetish for links going to the “right” place (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Iotw_text/2017-43&diff=1516878&oldid=1516754
being a typical recent example) that he takes as far as special cases in templates just to satisfy it, this was the root of the current calendar argument.<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Richard <ricoz.osm@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 October 2017 13:10:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Tobias Knerr<br>
<b>Cc:</b> talk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:13:14AM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote:<br>
> On 28.10.2017 12:06, Andrew Hain wrote:<br>
> > His behaviour over the past years makes him a contributor of net<br>
> > negative value.<br>
> <br>
> I have to disagree here. He's probably the single most active wiki<br>
> contributor, and is also performing a lot of useful maintenance work<br>
> that no one else would bother doing.<br>
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Agree. <br>
At the same time, exactly as he is a respected and experienced<br>
contributor the cost of every single missstep is disproportionately<br>
higher than if "gaer3jfkk4ej555_I_want_to_fuck_OSM" does it.<br>
<br>
An exceptionally high self esteem regarding foreign language skills<br>
does not help either. ( <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/escada/diary/40120">
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/escada/diary/40120</a> )<br>
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> This does not mean that he should be exempt from the rules, of course.<br>
> To the contrary: What I would hope for is consistent enforcement of the<br>
> rules, with gradually increasing penalties. Jumping straight from spotty<br>
> enforcement to a permanent ban, though, seems wasteful and needlessly cruel.<br>
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Rules can help - if they can be enforced by simple technical means. For some<br>
contributors lets say a limit like<br>
* 2 edits to a single page within 14 days<br>
* 5 edits to talk pages per 7 days<br>
* 1 revert per 14 days<br>
<br>
Nothing personal but very few people here have the time to follow<br>
dozens of changesets so this would help a lot.<br>
<br>
Maybe for some contributors a personal blacklist banning every edit with<br>
the word "you" in every language and declination can help.<br>
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Richard<br>
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