[OSM-talk] xybot

[Matt Amos]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Someoneelse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> I see that xybot has woken up again.  Would an announcement on this list
>> really have been too much to ask?
>
> This might be a pretty drastic question to ask, but perhaps it's time to
> start coming up with a community policy regarding banning or
> blocking-temporarily users that damage the data by putting it to a vote.

indeed. too many people are damaging the data by voting :-P

> Perhaps with API 0.6 coming it will be easier to get rid of crummy edits,
> but as OSM gets more popular, it'll be important for the community to at
> least have thought of ways to prevent vandalism from happening.

it will definitely be more possible. with changesets it'll be possible
for people to write practical revert tools. also, the changesets give
us a way of monitoring and controlling the number and extent of
changes. it will finally be possible to enforce the community policies
on unannounced bots/imports and large-scale vandalism on the server.

cheers,

matt