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

[Andy Townsend]

On 12/01/2018 14:07, 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.

The example given at 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43101 is certainly 
"insufficiently localised" to European eyes (alternatively, "written by 
a six-year-old") - every sentence ends with an exclamation mark*.

More seriously, any automatic use of OSM messages is problematical 
because it devalues the messages that we want people to actually read - 
the ones that are composed by and sent be a human, and have actual 
useful information in them (and I'm glad to see that Mike N said "I 
haven't used this yet because I wanted to add my own detail to the 
message" - that's exactly what should be happening).

Best Regards,
Andy

* apparently, according to 
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170301-what-overusing-exclamation-marks-says-about-you 
, this is a matter of life and death :)