[OSM-talk] New moderation team & etiquette guidelines for talk@ & osmf-talk@ list

[Mark Wagner]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 16:58:28 +0200
Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 6/9/22 10:18, Simon Poole wrote:
> > Could the board clarify if linking to changesets is considered
> > doxing or not?  
> 
> Discussing the work of other mappers is a fundamental part of our 
> community QA process. Obviously trying to limit that would be harmful
> to the goals of the project as a whole and hence linking to
> changesets is of course fine. I don't think that this requires a
> reply from the moderation team - if their reply were "uh you can't do
> that" then they would need to be replaced immediately for
> incompetence ;)

The problem is that a lot of beginning mappers make edits that provide
personal information.  There's one user I'm aware of where I figured
out his name, which apartment building he lives in, which house his
parents live in, which high school he went to, which church he goes to,
and which particular variety of evangelical Christian he is, all based
on his first dozen (low-quality) edits.

Other examples aren't quite this extreme, but when someone's first edit
is to add a building named "My House", it's pretty obvious where they
live.

-- 
Mark