[OSM-talk] Disallow Anonymous Edits NOW

[Dave Stubbs]

On 14/10/2007, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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> Tom Chance wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 October 2007 00:22:31 Dermot McNally wrote:
> >> I 100% agree with Frederik on this.
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> > Didn't read it all, but I agree that anon edits should be turned off and it
> > should always be possible and obvious how to contact the author of every edit
> > through a web-based form (to protect identity of people who don't want their
> > real name, email etc. to be public).
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> I disagree. Real names should be public. We don't need people who wish
> to remain anonymous(*). Community and traceability are far more important.
>

How were you planning on obtaining people's "Real Names" exactly?

For a start, no... if people don't want to reveal their real names
then that's just fine. What's important here is that they are
contactable.

Threre's very little point in making people enter a "real name" when
in reality it has about as much chance of being their real name as the
nickname they choose if you ask them for one of those.

+1 for all new edits being public though. With cheap user accounts I
can't see any reasonable loss of anonimity, and the gain to the
community of being able to contact people privately through the
website looks good to me.