[OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required in various countries)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Pieren wrote:
> I'm just questionning myself if I will continue to contribute to OSM
> if the admins are not able to react faster to something which looks
> like the worst form of vandalism.

Comments like that are not helpful at all. If that's really your 
attitude then find yourself a tightly controlled, non-crowdsourced project.

What do you expect "the admins" to do? Drop their day job and chase 
after someone where even people on the mailing lists say they are not 
really sure if this is vandalism or not? Come on!

I don't understand the urgency either. It's not like this guy is 
deleting half of the data. Let him do his thing for a while and then 
we'll perhaps have a clearer picture of what he's up to. He might even 
have answered an e-Mail by then. If people wouldn't get all upset and 
flap their wings like a bunch of hens then we could calmly investigate 
what is happening - and if we find that we want to remove his edits in a 
week or two, we can still do it. Yes, it is always easier to undo a 
change when it is still fresh, but "shoot first, as questions later" is 
certainly not "the admins"' motto, and I am grateful for that.

Bye
Frederik