[Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01.11.2012 04:26, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> To your question of technical means; you're right that adding
> technical means to entirely prevent a malicious user are difficult to
> put in place, but they are not impossible, but if it's just a handful
> of troublemakers, it's best to address that, rather than create an
> entire engineering task around it.

+1 - Martijn does have a point but the problem we are currently having 
is not that people can circumvent rules - it is that people can boldly 
claim that they are right. Kind of "I've been here for 10 years and I 
have 5 million edits so please excuse me while my bot tramples all over 
your work, and don't you dare challenge me because I know the only true 
tagging rules and anything anybody else says is stupid."

In the past, whenever DWG has actually tried to wade into such cases, we 
were quickly bogged down by the question of whether a certain way of 
tagging is factually correct or not.

But it turns out that factual correctness is not the issue - it is the 
way it is discussed or asserted by people.

If, for example, the US community would express a clear preference for 
local mappers having their way in tagging, then a tagging bully would 
clearly and visibly operate outside of the rules of accepted behaviour, 
and all his explanations about why his tagging is correct would be moot.

It is hard to argue from authority if your account is two days old 
because your previous one has been blocked for bullying ;)

Bye
Frederik

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