668
edits
Ban Policy: Difference between revisions
Add amendments accepted in board circular
(No longer a draft.) |
(Add amendments accepted in board circular) |
||
|
Members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) Data Working Group (DWG) have a set of tools that they can apply in cases of vandalism, edit wars, or other conflicts between users. These include:
* publicly commenting on changeset discussions;
* Sending a normal user-to-user message to someone;
* sending a publicly visible "blocking" message to someone, which must be read before the user can make further edits;
* removing offensive notes or comments on changeset discussions
* blocking an user account temporarily for up to 96 hours;
* recommending to OSMF that a user be blocked
== Normal Messages and Blocking Messages ==
Members of DWG will usually make first contact through a changeset discussion comment or normal user-to-user message that makes it clear that the sender is writing in their capacity as a DWG member. A publicly visible "blocking" message will be used if there is reason to believe that a normal message will not reach the user before he makes further edits - either because the user is in the process of making edits, or because earlier attempts at communicating through normal messages have failed.
It is important to note that such "blocking messages" do not constitute an assignment of guilt.
A DWG member can lift any existing block at any time, although usually only the person who created the block will consider lifting it, and lifting blocks is unusual since they expire rather quickly anyway.
==
Before a user is blocked
An
If, while you are blocked, other accounts are found to be controlled by you, the ban would apply to those accounts as well.
* Addition of approval information
* Removal of DRAFT notice.
* Policy amended by board circular
| |||