[OSM-talk] Disallow Anonymous Edits NOW

[Steve Coast]

On 14 Oct 2007, at 23:13, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Steve Coast wrote:
>
>> +1 to be fashionable
>>
>> It's also fashionable to give up freedom for security, which is
>> pretty much what this is. Cutting off semi-anonymous (they still need
>> an account) editing is just putting off attacking the real problem,
>> which is rollback.
>
> Hm. I'm working on rollback, but it is undeniably a Hard Problem and
> in Potlatch UI terms needs to be lumped with the even Harder Problem
> of redesigning the tag editing panel. That's why it hasn't happened
> in Potlatch yet, not because I'm lazy (well, not especially).
> Frederik committing five-line changes to two or three controllers
> doesn't really delay this work.

No, but it provides the illusion that people won't break data. I can  
still go in and delete all of Oxford, right? And in the mean time, a  
basic freedom has been lost.

I know I sound a bit Stallman, but I think it's a shame.

have fun,

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