[OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
>>> We have no mechanism to divide "good" from "bad" ideas. If you start 
>>> putting your ideas about what you think is good and "should" be used on 
>>> Map Features, then I will start putting mine on there as well, and 
>>> everyone else. That's why we don't want to go down this road. (And 
>>> before anyone asks, a vote in which 0.01% of mappers participate does 
>>> not elevate one idea about what is "good" above hundreds of others.)
>> 
>> I agree with you here, but voting seems to be the current practice.
>
> It may seem so, but in fact voting is just a pastime of a tiny minority 
> of OSMers; the vast majority don't care for either the process or the 
> results. Voting on new tags is as much current practice as, say, tagging 
> lampposts or park benches - some do it with fervour, most don't care. 
> Which is ok - anyone has the right to tag lampposts or to vote. As long 
> as they let the others do their thing.

Sure.  I am just assuming that tags that have been added to Map
Features since the practice of voting started have been voted on.  Or,
are there features being added that have been deemed "recommended" by
other means?

Matthias