[Talk-us] US-wide highway reclassifications by Fluffy89502

[Eric Patrick]

>
> I don't think a wholesale revert is necessary given that it sounds
> like from other users that some of Fluffy's changesets have been
> legitimately useful.


Even a blind man will hit a target with an arrow at some point, given an
unlimited amount of tries.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Bradley White <theangrytomato at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I, like SteveA, have come to view this persons edits with suspicion by
> default. The majority of the changes made by this person in my area
> have been fiddling with highway classifications. While I don't want to
> dictate how someone should map, these changes are generally unhelpful
> "low-hanging fruit" when there are so many other things that could be
> done (landuse, TIGER cleanup, buildings...). Echoing others, the main
> problem I've had is wholesale changes to road classifications without
> any attempt to justify their changes, or participate in any discussion
> with others about how we should classify highways. I've been on this
> mailing list for years and have tried to be involved in these
> discussions, and have encouraged Fluffy to do the same but I don't
> think I've seen him communicate outside of the rare response to
> changeset comment.
>
> I don't think a wholesale revert is necessary given that it sounds
> like from other users that some of Fluffy's changesets have been
> legitimately useful. Changing road classifications tends to ruffle
> feathers of local mappers so I think most of these less-helpful
> changesets will be reverted naturally anyways (though it is certainly
> frustrating to have to waste time cleaning this mess up). I certainly
> would be in favor of a block until they agree to better changeset
> comments and participation in discussions over road classifications if
> that's what the majority of their edits are going to be.
>
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