[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Please help with pull requests! (Issue #3815)

[Frederik Ramm]

> What are the guidelines for writing new features for the website?

A good first step is discussing a problem and possible solutions before embarking on a solution. "Community building around website improvement" doesn't happen by people throwing a pull request over the fence that scratches their itch. (In this particular situation, there was a discussion and many people said that simply adding a hashtag was a bad idea, and you ignored that in your pull request.)

The message you have received was not to "stop with that obsession" but to stop with the **hashtag** obsession. Hashtags have a difficult history in OSM. A large number of changesets nowadays contain **only** hashtags as comments because people seem to believe that the main purpose of changeset comments is automatic parsing for leaderboards in task managers. That's why many people are skeptical when hashtags are presented as a quick cure for some problem.

While +1's from community members who do not participate in code maintenance show some support for your idea, these community members will usually not be able to assess the architectural/technical consequences of an idea (and will not be the ones who have to live with the code going forward). 

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