[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Éric Gillet]

2017-10-14 12:05 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de>:

> On Friday 13 October 2017, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> > I would like to introduce a new quick-fix editing service.  It allows
> > users to generate a list of editing suggestions using a query, review
> > each suggestion one by one, and click "Save" on each change if they
> > think it's a good edit.
>
> This is a tool to perform automated edits as per the automated edits
> policy.  A resposible developer of such a tool should inform its users
> that making automated edits comes with certain requirements and that
> not following these rules can result in changes being reverted and user
> accounts being blocked.
>

Every editor can be used for "mechanical edits". The responsability of
doing correct changes and changesets lies on the user of such tools.
I don't think we can blame a tool for blind, thoughtless edits by users.
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