[OSM-talk] Undo request button for changesets

[Pieren]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> You are confusing what is technically possible with what is socially
> acceptable. Frederik's point was that when you are doing a revert you
> should consider whether (socially speaking) it is appropriate.
>
> So, to use his examples, if somebody mails him saying "I just made a
> mistake, can you revert my edit" then that is obviously fine; but if
> somebody on the other side of the world emails him saying "X keeps
> making bad edits, can you revert them" then he will decline as he has no
> way of knowing the background to the situation or who is right.
>
> Tom

It is a technical discussion because everybody can revert changes anyway.
The point is that anyone can delete 1000 buildings in your city in
three clicks on JOSM but only few privileged people can revert this
vandalism quickly (the ones how know the appropriate script). The
others have to repair it manually 1000 times. It is a way to create a
special category of "privileged contributors allowed to revert
changesets" without saying it.
Pieren