[OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

[Dave F.]

On 14/10/2014 16:37, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/14/2014 05:20 PM, Dave F. wrote:
>> It's the misuse by end users that's causing vandalism.
> The term "vandalism" should be reserved for situations in which people
> break things on purpose, or at best by grossly reckless behaviour.
>
> If someone is over-eager in using software that purports to show bugs,
> or if the software is over-eager in classifying things as actionable
> "to-fix" items, then these things can be all sorts of things - perhaps
> not-well-thought-out, or naive, or maybe occasionally even stupid, but
> they're never "vandalism".
>
> Personally I think there's a world of a difference between someone
> wanting to help but getting it wrong, and someone wanting to cause damage.

Good point, well made.

Dave F.

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