[OSM-talk] Awards

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
>    I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
> have for their contributors:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
> One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come
> from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors the
> implicit hierarchy conferred by such awards, it is almost like service
> ranks in the military.
> I'm interested to hear everybody's thoughts on the matter.

I'm not generally opposing this, but please don't make referrals to
totalitarism like this page does IMHO partly intended, partly unaware
(communist star (I know that this is an unexclusive meaning, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_California but it IMHO still is
the general interpretation), little red book, and the worst (probably
unintended: {{SA-journeyman}} , {{SA-apprentice}}, etc. which in
German law would be ~"using forbidden signs and symbols")

cheers,
Martin