[OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

Dermot McNally dermotm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 23:47:19 BST 2011


On 10 June 2011 23:35, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a flawed analogy, since there were two decisions for smokers: whether
> to vote yes or no on the referendum, and (after it passed) whether to
> patronize these places. With OSM there is only one decision; someone who
> 'votes' against the change gets their contributions removed, as if someone
> who voted no on the referendum was no longer allowed to visit the pub and
> grab a beer with friends.

Not at all. It's not a perfect analogy, but it covers perfectly the
future right of the no voters to continue to use the facility. In the
OSM context, this is possible by either accepting the terms and
keeping your previous contributions on the map or (for whatever
reason) standing by the no vote and creating another account. That the
no voter would prefer not to have to do all this is clear, but then
democracy always disappoints somebody.

Dermot

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