[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Christoph, I don't think this works for any community that grows beyond a
certain size, especially when the community is not in the same
location/building/land otherwise, and doesn't see each other every day.
Look at Wikipedia, or any large social organization for that matter. At the
village/startup level, you have very few codified rules, but as the group
grows to a city/corporation size, it becomes more and more bureaucratic. We
may not like it, but clear rules help community maintain cohesion, and
prevents many conflicts.


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:

> On Monday 13 November 2017, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> > Christoph, thanks for clarifying.  I should have been a bit more
> > careful with that word.  Could you clarify one thing - if wiki is not
> > authoritative for deprecation, than what is?  "Community consensus
> > that something is not to be used" has to be documented somewhere,
> > right?
>
> No, it does not have to.  It is the nature of most societies that not
> all social rules that exist are also codified.  The process of becoming
> a member of the OSM community to a large part consists of becoming
> familiar with and developing an intuitive understanding of the
> unwritten rules.
>
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> Christoph Hormann
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