[Tagging] Fuzzy areas again: should we have them or not?

[Tomas Straupis]

2020-12-24, kt, 18:05 80hnhtv4agou--- via Tagging rašė:
> it is a separate login making it a different account.

  It is not a technical problem.

  Where are several ways in principle:
  1. Full democracy - you need thousands of people to vote - hard to do.
  2. Weighted democracy - vote is multiplied by some coefficient - say
by number of edits (but should somehow include other value for OSM
like writing, organising, administering, chapioning etc.) - you would
need less votes as it will be enough to get votes of high
contributors, but will have difficulty/controversy when writing
formula and getting values for the coefficient (especially when
evaluating non tangible things like championing).
  3. Expert lead - experts committee is elected (having real expertise
in the field as well as OSM) - hard to find experts willing to do this
and as has already been demonstrated experts will be massively
outnumbered so it will be hard to force non experts to follow their
decisions. Also this could probably be against "OSM as a free and open
society for everyone".

  Therefore we have what we have - small groups with their own rules
and standards.