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

[Clifford Snow]

I echo Bryan - this is a much needed feature. I started incorporating
OSMCha into my review of new users in my area. That I could easily capture
"good and bad" edits and post a comment to the user at the same time is
nice. When I do come across a bad edit, and it doesn't happen often, I post
a more complete changeset message. For example, a yesterday a new user made
one bad and one good edit. The bad edit was to add a natural=water
rectangle in a back yard, his I'm assuming. It was so large you could fit
two or more olympic sized swimming pools in the same area. The other edit
was to add a parking lot. I often even post tips when they make a good edit
but the edit could use some improvement - often squaring houses.

OSMCha offers us the chance to catch problems early which is going to
discourage vandalism by removing any trace of it. That way the new user
can't show their friends how they added say a pokemon spawning feature next
to their house.

Willie - thanks for the feature

Clifford

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Erwin Olario <govvin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> reposting an earlier reply, which i mistakenly sent directly just to
> Michael
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Erwin Olario <govvin at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Automatically generated changeset discussion
> comments by OSMCha
> To: Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de>
>
>
> I believe it's a good idea. At present, any OSM user (and all OsmCha
> users, are OSM users) can leave any comment to a changeset, whether or not
> the mapper asked for any.
>
> Earlier, I filed a ticket to enhance OsmCha behavior. Instead of posting a
> default message, the reviewer should leave details outlining how the
> changeset could be improved (or why they think it's bad.)
>
> [0]: https://github.com/mapbox/osmcha-frontend/issues/248
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:10 PM Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de>
> 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?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> [1] Btw, which Github repository would be the correct one the file the
>> bug report at?
>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=osmcha+github&t=ffsb&ia=web
>>
>>
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