[OSM-talk] More vandalism

[vegard]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:34PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Nic Roets wrote:
> 
> > Or change potlatch so that it will not delete or modify objects last  
> > edited by other users. Then it would at least be easy to delete  
> > anything they did.
> 
> Tell you what, let's completely ban all editors - that'll eliminate  
> the risk of vandalism.
> 

Like it or not, potlach *is* the source of quite a bit of accidental
vandalism. It's easy to use for beginners, but they will *not*
understand the implications of what they are doing. The sanbox helped a
lot, but obviously not enough.

I believe you need some sort of online "buffer" for potlach and a
prominent "submit button" that everyone understand the implications on.
Maybe even with a warning-page that you need to go through unless you
have gone to your preferences box to turn it off.

Yes, it's gonna be a bit annoying to new users. But not nearly as
annoying as having to clean up hard-worked map data.
-- 
- Vegard Engen, member of the first RFC1149 implementation team.