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This is not a new problem. You just cant trust an individual, even with a long history. The solution is to have individuals check up on each other. If some user
by Demiurge 11y ago
This is not a new problem. You just cant trust an individual, even with a long history. The solution is to have individuals check up on each other. If some users are interested in drawing, other users should be interested in moderating.
- icebraining 11y agoAnd then you end up with the interminable whining regarding the moderation - see Wikipedia, StackExchange, etc.
- malka 11y agoThey can handle those using the classic google support pipeline. ie straigth to the garbage bin.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoWhat humans do on the interwebs matches exactly what humans do in real life. I don't think there's a technical way to avoid that.
- rmc 11y agoOSM has less whining, probably because there is often less amibugity. Someone on StackExchange might wonder if a question is really off-topic, but on OSM, there'll be very little disagreement about whether the thing is a lake or a postbox.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoOSM is helped by the On The Ground Rule, in other words, physical world is the canonical source. There's quite enough disagreement in secondary tags (e.g. "smoothness" of a way), but having a universal canonical source (whatever is physically there) helps immensely with conflicts between data sources (sometimes from three data sources, you can get five data points, neither of which matches the physical feature ;)). https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes#On_the_Ground_Rule https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes#On_the_Ground_R...