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

[Simon Poole]

Am 14.11.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Michał Brzozowski:
... lots of stuff ...

This is not a new complaint/moan. The major issue is the people that
have made OSM one of/their major hobby (aka us) fretting about the fact
that lots of other people just joined to fix something or test. They
typically didn't want to sign up for Facebook 2.0 and most of the time
clearly didn't want to engage in long winded discussion about editing
corectness. Naturally there are some practical issues on top of that
(e-mail etc.), but they are unlikely to play a major role.

The good news is that the ratio of Newbies to Old Hands has not really
changed over the last couple of years (roughly 2/3 vs 1/3 annually, 10%
on a daily base) . We've proven that we are able to deal with the issues
in the past, so there is no reason to believe that, with the far better
tools and editors that we have now, there is any issue going forward. 

Simon





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