[Osmf-talk] Quality of discourse

[Edward Bainton]

I think to answer that question would be to sling more mud.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 09:33, Japheth Osumo <japhethosumo528 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I confess that I haven't gone through all the conversations, but who is
> mudslinging who?
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM Kristian Thy <thy at 42.dk> wrote:
>
>> Agreed. I'm normally not one to announce my departure, but I do fell
>> someone needs to tell the oversized egos here that their petty kindergarten
>> mudslinging is actively driving disengagement. I've been a mapper since
>> before meeting up with Steve and Nick in Copenhagen in the summer of 2006,
>> and I'm done now. It's beyond ridiculous.
>>
>> On 2024-10-21 01:20, Bob Gambrel wrote:
>>
>> It seems like monthly or so, about the time a board meeting is announced
>> that the silly emails start pouring in. I share the same frustrations that
>> others have about the negativity (and seemingly uselessness) of the
>> discussions. I have normally just started deleting the emails as they come
>> in.
>>
>> I plan now to just unsubscribe.
>>
>> For those of you who enjoy it, just keep on bickering.
>>
>> You have lost me.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM Kashish via osmf-talk <
>> osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>
>> In another thread, a member expressed annoyance with the tone of
>> discussions. And ever since the AGM thread began, I've been feeling the
>> same way - that a big factor that kills my interest in keeping up with OSMF
>> affairs is the constant passive-aggressiveness and assumptions of
>> ill-intent or ineptitude that pervade these discussions.
>>
>> It's only an odd one or two members who do so, but they ruin the
>> environment for everyone. If increasing participation in the OSMF is a
>> desired goal, this must be tackled.
>>
>> Are there no guidelines for discourse in this forum?
>> If they are, are they enforced?
>>
>> The same members are also involved in mischaracterizing things so
>> consistently that it seems all but intentional. Are there no rules against
>> that?
>>
>> PS - I would also like something like Twitter's Community Notes, which
>> refute misinformation right next to where it occurs, with fewer chances of
>> being missed. But that will probably require engineering effort, which is
>> in short supply.
>>
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