[OSM-talk] requesting feedback

[koko]

Jussi Kukkonen schreef:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>   
>> Looking at all these discussions, it seems that while people are
>> understandably annoyed when someone ruins their careful work, the
>> thing that really pisses them off is if they can't contact the author
>> because he has not "made his edits public".
>>
>> So there's someone wreaking havoc on your data - and you don't even
>> know who he is, cannot contact him, nothing! The only handle you have
>> is that he does what he does with Potlatch, so naturally you call for
>> Potlatch being switched off.
>>
>> I think this is the core of the problem. And while I have said in the
>> past that I would like fully anonymous edits without even registering,
>> I rescind that now and say: No more edits by accounts who haven't made
>> their edits public!
>>     
>
> This is a good idea and it reminded me of another user-generated-content
> project that didn't just allow feedbcak, but also encouraged giving it.
> I used to contribute to Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/)
> and they had a very nice system for smoothing the learning curve:
>    When the user submits a proofread page, there's a checkbox "I'm a new
>    user and would like feedback on my work". A more experienced user
>    would see this when he does the 2nd proofreading and could comment or
>    complement...
> This worked wonderfully when I encountered some difficult situations or
> when I was unsure of the quality of my work.
>
> The workflow in OSM is totally different of course, and I'm not sure how
> a "feedback wanted"-flag could be implemented, but I'm positive that if
> it was implemented it would be very useful.
>
>  -jussi
>
>
>   

Hi,

I think this would be wonderfull! Not only for new users, but also for 
the more experienced ones. In some situations a second opinion is very 
usefull in stead of just trying something.

koko
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