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[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/3/21 07:18, Johann Haag wrote:
>> The politics in OpenStreetMap drove me into anonymity. 

By "politics" he means having to listen to what other community members 
ask of him - other community members he continually accuses of secretly 
working for the Austrian government or shady commercial enterprises 
trying to bring OSM down.

By "anonymity" he means creating one sock puppet after another to evade 
the blocking of his account, and thereby wasting not only DWG's time but 
that of the whole Austrian OSM community.

This man has been suspended (countless times) on the Austrian forum for 
(among other things) spewing off-topic conspiracy theories. He has been 
moderated on the talk-at mailing list. His OSM account has been 
temporarily suspended many times (before finally being suspended 
indefinitely) and a lot of time has gone into trying to convince him to 
respect others in the community to no avail. The various account blocks 
on https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/beautifulplacesMMXX/blocks are 
just a fragment of the whole but they give you an idea of what has 
happened, however the list of his accounts is long:

geocodec
wiki the map
addresshistory org
addresshistory*org
beautifulplaces1 through beautifulplaces9
beautifulplacesMMXX
beautifulplacesMMXXI
et_excluduntur
couninf
KarliG
Florian6345
Florian6345_2
osmeulenspiegel
fun737max
Dragoner12
123fix
32d2123
77fix
Sainihåns
5020_eulenspiegel
DWG_contributors_invited_to_geography_conferences
nicht_negreheb
nicht_negreheb2
Pflug24
derunbestechliche
@Österreich
@aus_OpenStreetMap_und
lsbkascdakhcbdsdavci
predatortutti
Kirchgasse
2History
Wonder Women
Superman Tirol
DSalza
AT6380
trapp77

Some of these are just throwaway accounts, others contain long profile 
rants about injustices suffered, or various attacks against individuals 
or groups. Some are even given a "persona", for example he used his 
"Wonder Women" account to tell another mapper "I won't let a man dictate 
anything to me!" when asked to provide good changeset comments.

In one of the many interminable discussions about his mapping on 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104910470, towards the end, he 
describes his strategy of actively suppressing productive mapping.

In addition to various OSM-controlled media, this user also regularly 
publishes accusations against other Austrian OSM contributors and DWG 
members on Twitter and his personal blog.

If anyone wants to form their own opinion, the above pointers should 
give you more than enough material.

Bye
Frederik

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