[OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion comments by OSMCha

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 2018-01-12 um 15:13 schrieb Bryan Housel:
> I love this feature, and I hope Wille keeps it in.
> The message is very well written, and it’s not spam if the user asks for their changeset to be reviewed and then somebody actually does it.

It should be optional to post a changeset comment. If someone marks all
changesets in his home area as good, all changesets get a comment. If I
get a comment on all my changesets, I will write a filter on my personal
mail server to drop all these unsolicited emails (all comments with the
OSMCha default text). I can write filters on my own but I am sure that
many of our users are not able to do (or don't want to do and might
reduce their OSM activity).

Ideally, this comment should be localized. If a user uses the German
locale of his editor, he should the receive the comment in German if the
reviewer also uses a German locale (it is then very likely that they
would use German for their normal conversation). Receiving lots of
similar foreign-language comments is not far away from receiving ten
emails whose subject is "Bitcoin Millions".

That's why I consider it as some kind of spam (half of all recent
comments are just automatically generated):
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=Germany#6/51.727/9.338

All in all, the usage of the changeset discussions by OSMCha just points
out that a feature is missing on osm.org. This cannot be fully replaced
by a third-party application.

Best regards

Michael

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