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

[Maarten Deen]

On 2018-01-12 15:07, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OSMCha started posting comments to changesets a few days ago when a 
> user
> marks a changeset as good or bad.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43101
> I would like to ask the author(s) of OSMCha to disable this feature.
> 
> We expect to read all mappers incoming message (personal messages and
> changeset comments). If third-party tools start to post comments to 
> lots
> of changesets automatically, this is some kind of spamming. If OSM 
> sends
> to much emails to a user, the user will probably ignore them or treat
> them as spam.
> 
> I think that OSMCha should not post a comment automatically except if
> the user has explicitly asked for feedback or there are quality issues
> regarding the edit (mistakes, vandalism, guideline violations or
> anything else which makes it necessary to talk to the user).
> 
> I post this email to this mailing list instead of filing a bug report a
> Github [1] because I want to bring this problem to the wider audience
> and initiate a general discussion on the acceptable usage of the
> changeset comments API.
> 
> What are your thoughts and opinions on this issue?

I agree. I would see a comment like that as very condescending.
Mind you: I have not used OSMcha and when I tried to use it 
(osmcha.mapbox.com ?) I can't seem to log in. I get a few error messages 
and the sign in box does nothing.
So I can't really check what kinds of edits would be affected by this.

Maarten