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

[Lester Caine]

On 17/01/18 09:46, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> It's like clapping
>> your hands to the supermarket cashier every time he/she prints you the
>> receipt.
> I had to smile at that one.

Reminds me off the developers lists where there is more traffic of the 
'I like that' than actual constructive contributions.

> I think users should either be able to opt out of automatically
> generated changeset comments, or perhaps such changeset comments should
> only ever be generated to users who have actively opted in (the "review
> requested" could be interpreted as an opt-in even though it doesn't
> exactly mean that).

Requesting the review of an edit should always be optional, but for new 
editors it should be a part of the process anyway. TAGGING a changeset 
for review should not simply be a comment. OSMCha should perhaps be 
pushing feedback to the contributor and ONLY to the database when there 
is a problem. Can we keep that hand clapping to a separate channel to 
the live data in the database please?

>> 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
> Could auto-generated changeset comments be marked as such, so that HDYC
> could ignore them or at least treat them as less relevant?

We live in a world where much of the traffic on social media is 
automatically generated by a bot of some sort. Adding that 'feature' to 
OSM to improve quality should be part of the edit process so it informs 
a contributor at the time, not generating feedback later. And certainly 
as with any contribution, it should be tagged in a way that you KNOW 
just how it was generated, and can filter the 'social media' 
contributions from the 'constructive' ones.

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