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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 24. Dec 2020, at 17:21, Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  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".


4. liquid democracy, have people delegate their votes by topic if they don’t want to vote themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

Cheers Martin 
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