Hello stevea and Adamant1,

I’m referring to your discussions at https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/71745810 which continue from lots of other, similar altercations between the two of you elsewhere.

We can’t have that in OSM. Please stop.

Changeset comments are not there to argue your world view or your vision for OSM at length. Keep them short and snappy and to the point.

Each of you claims in one form or other that the other doesn’t “leave them alone”. Please try to leave each other alone. The USA are big enough for two mappers.

Adamant1, please refrain from editing things that stevea has edited before. In https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/71745810 you changed a “FIXME” to a “fixme” which is not an improvement; and you wrongly commented on this with “Got rid of un-needed park:type tag” which is a comment that was sure to ruffle stevea’s feathers. Whether this was accidental or a plausibly deniable provocation I cannot know but if it happens again I will read it as a purposeful provocation.

stevea, please refrain from editing things that Adamant1 has edited before. In https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/71793080 you are directly criticizing Adamant1 without naming him (“Multipolygonizing a forest that was left poorly tagged and missing pieces by its previous editor”) when one look at the history tells everyone that this “poorly taggin” previous editor was Adamant1.

Both of you please stop provoking the other. OpenStreetMap has more mapping bugs than either of you can fix so if you need to correct multipolygons then fire away but just try to choose ones not edited by the other before. It’s a waste of resources on all sides.

Both of you have made great contributions to OSM, both on the map and by voicing reasonable opinion in various discussions. We’re all on the same side here, don’t waste your energy with squabbling when you could improve OSM.

This is just a 0-hour block that clears immediately after you’ve read the message but we will not hesitate to block you for a longer “cooling down period” if circumstances should require it.

Such a “cooling down period” would be extra long if either of you should be tempted to play any “innocent” games that follow the letter but not the spirit of this missive. Please don’t insult us by trying to be clever.

Thank you for your understanding & the good work on OSM. Keep that up.
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group