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

[joost schouppe]

In Belgium we also welcome new mappers, using Pascal Neis service and first
a Google Doc (connected by IFTTT), now Ruben ( M!dgard ) is doing this with
a PHP site he'll clean up one day to share (more info:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaborative_tool_for_welcoming_new_mappers
). The message is available here, in Dutch and French:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ekf8tDrCoBQ39mHfN3LgNeyWKbEDqwCsVH3nyp5b5gs
We get about 13% response.

Considering how dispersed OSM resources are, I'm pretty sure this is
useful. Hard to make decent statistics of course.


2015-11-15 19:14 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

>
>
> sent from a phone
>
> > Am 14.11.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I am kind of fed
> > up with how rarely newbies respond to changeset comments and messages.
> > Have you observed such low rate in your area?
>
>
> yes, I also send much more messages to new users than get replied by them
> (maybe 5-10%). Typically, when you see by the editing quantity and
> frequency that a new user is really fascinated by his/her new discovery, it
> is much more probable that you get a reply (more than 50%). The percentages
> are estimated/ gut feelings, but I could look them up if that's interesting
> ;-)
>
> cheers
> Martin
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