[OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Russ Nelson wrote:
>
>> Sorry, Ted, but you're being driven by ideology here, not by
>> good programming practise.  Ideology is for ideots.
>
> Really?  So can we copy coordinates from Google Maps now?

Okay, taking you somewhat more seriously now, the ideology that Ted is  
driving is that everything in OSM should be editable by everyone, and  
nobody has any better edits to make than anyone else, and everybody  
gets an equal vote, and if you change something and I change it back,  
well, those are just two votes and who are you to override me or me  
override you, and when somebody moves a way five miles long over by  
one hundred feet and screws up hundreds of roads, well, that was just  
an edit, and how can an edit be wrong?

I exaggerate to make a point, obviously.  As far as I can see, there  
is no reputation mechanism whereby experienced editors stand out from  
the noob editors, and the latter are reluctant to change the former's  
edits.  And by definition if I don't know about it, it doesn't exist.   
In hindsight, I think that I proposed "immutable=yes" as a primitive  
and binary reputation mechanism.  If anybody has any better ideas, I'd  
love to hear them.

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