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

[Marco]

Agree with you, I don't really like this feature, mainly for two reasons:

1) I see myself as a quite experienced mapper and I guess pretty much 
99% of my edits improved the map, I think it's nice to see that someone 
double checks some of my edits using osmcha or achavi, but I also think 
there's actually no need to add a comment saying that my edit "looks 
great". I reckon it might be useful when dealing with new mappers as 
adding a comment saying "you're doing a great job, keep it up" might 
improve the new mapper's motivation, but shelling my email address with 
emails from osm, saying that someone added a comment (automatic and 
useless) to one of my changeset does only annoy me. It's like clapping 
your hands to the supermarket cashier every time he/she prints you the 
receipt.

2) I've always been using the "changesets w/comments" line of the HDYC 
page to double check suspicious mappers. Usually a mapper with a ton of 
commented changesets was to consider suspicious, from now on this osmcha 
feature is going to add a crazy amount of positive/useless comments and 
then looking at the number of changesets with comments of a mapper is 
not going to be useful anymore. It also makes things more complex when 
trying to double check a mapper which already saved hundreds of changesets.

Cheers

Marco


Il 12/01/2018 15:07, Michael Reichert ha scritto:
> 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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