[OSM-talk] When two bots go to war

[Casper Kersten]

I think we can rely on reason and logic here instead of extra guidelines.
This was obviously not intentional and we don't need to write guidelines
against it.

(Re-sent because I accidentally replied privately instead of to the mailing
list)

Op di 12 sep 2023 om 08:30 schreef Snusmumriken via talk <
talk at openstreetmap.org>:

> I recently happen to witness an edit war between two bots, that changed
> a tag on an object back and forth once a day. It stopped once I pointed
> it out.
>
> These are the guidelines for bots
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct
>
> Shouldn't they be amended with something like; "A bot should not edit
> the same object twice"
>
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