[OSM-talk] Wiki contributions

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

SteveC wrote:
> Only a large scale change is going to fix that, bar a few things that
> you've already shot down like having a feedback tab. Something so
> obvious and easy to do that I've been asked multiple times why on
> Earth we haven't done it.

As you surely have been told already, a feedback tab needs people to 
process the feedback otherwise it will just annoy everyone. Has a 
solution to this been proposed?

The last time you suggested a "feedback tab" was by hooking up OSM to 
some third-party service where people would have been able to add 
comments using a completely different user interface. I didn't think 
that was a good idea, and if my voice was instrumental in "shooting 
down" that idea then I am awed by my own power.

I don't think that an a patch for the rails port which lets people add 
feedback would be difficult to do (now that TomH has spam under 
control). I would be the last person to oppose it, provided that it is 
halfway clear what happens with the stuff people write on it. After all 
we don't want to set up a corporate customer service department full of 
drones that send preformatted text messages back to everyone, or do we?

Bye
Frederik

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