[OSM-talk] Hashtags are not sufficient changeset comments

[Tobias Knerr]

On 18.04.21 13:22, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hashtags can be used in addition to a good changeset comment but they 
> can never replace it.

Thanks for raising this issue, I agree that comments consisting entirely 
of hashtags are unhelpful. I see those quite often on changesets that 
are part of humanitarian editing efforts.

In my opinion, it's the responsibility of people organized editing 
campaigns to encourage good editing practices, and that includes 
meaningful changeset comments.

What could help (besides better oversight over organized editing) might 
be warnings in editors. At the moment, editors often show a warning when 
the comment field is empty, but they tend to go away after typing a few 
hashtags.