[OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?

[Bryce Cogswell]

> On Nov 14, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, tony wroblewski <tony.wroblewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think people need a playpen where they can try out ideas and map
>> before contributing to the main map (Maybe there already is, I don't
>> know). I think it should also be a requirement that people add a
>> comment upon every commit to avoid such arguments. I'm getting a
>> little tired of seeing constant updates in my area from people who
>> don't add comments on why or what they've changed.
> 
> I do agree this is needed, as in Wikipedia. But how would people get
> the feedback on what they mapped? 

We could require the first few changesets a newbie submits to require review before going into the database. Make it obvious that they are in a trial period so they don’t need to worry about breaking things. We’d need a special queue for these to go into, and a roulette for experienced mappers to yes/no/feedback them. 

This would also be helpful for when all those new spam accounts starting changing phone numbers to 900 (pay per call) numbers and URLs to malware/scam sites.