2015-03-19 22:42 GMT+00:00 Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.li...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I use Stack Exchange a lot and it's great, very well designed for its >> purpose. BUT Stack Exchange is not designed for community decision >> making. There are tools/forums that are actually designed for that >> purpose. >> >> Also I don't think Stack Exchange themselves would want to host an OSM >> tagging area, it's not what they're about. Maybe someone has in mind a >> stack-exchange-like system rather than Stack Exchange itself. In fact >> <https://help.openstreetmap.org/> uses <http://www.osqa.net/> which is >> a Stack Exchange clone. But I repeat, it's not designed for >> consensus/decision-making, it's designed for Q&A, which has >> superficial similarities (voting etc) but it's not the same thing. > > > Dan, all true. > 1) Can you point in the direction of the tools you mean ("designed for that > purpose")? Do you know a good one?
I'm sorry, there was one recommended in a recent HOT email, but there have been so many HOT and OSM emails recently that I can't find which one was recommended :/ > 2) I know that SE as not designed for lengthy discussions. (It provides the > meta and chat though.) I was thinking more in the direction of proposing a > tag like a question. Then people can edit/comment/vote. It's a very > different approach, but I am not sure we need the current one with so much > text and noise. > 3) My main point was actually not to say that SE is the best solution, but > to emphasize to the forum proponents that forums are far from ideal too. > > Cheers, > Kotya > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
