"thank you" feature

[fuddl]

wikipedia has this very nice motivating feature. it is a button next to every changeset which is labeled thanks. When clicked, the contributor gets a little notification like this:

I suppose its not hard to integrate into osm and its very motivating… at least for me

[tomhughes]

Please god no

[vincentdephily]

@fuddl just use the existing changeset discussion feature ? It's a few more keypresses, but that makes receiving a "thank you" even more motivating.

[danstowell]

I'd like to argue against "Please god no". Such features encourage us towards more of a feeling of community oversight and second-checking of changes, in a positive rather than argumentative manner. It strikes me as healthy for the OSM community.

On the other hand, I think as @vincentdephily says, for now at least we can use the changeset discussion feature to prototype that as a feature of our community. I've already been adding little thankyous here and there, and I think it's worth doing, without at this point adding any more technical features.

[tomhughes]

So my objection is really only if it's intrusive to the recipient - if it's like a facebook like or twitter favourite or whatever, that just increments a counter somewhere that it there if I choose to look at it then fine.

What I don't want is something in my face that I have to actively dismiss/read/file and that acts more like the incredibly tedious thing that is people +1ing bugs.

[tmcw]

This could be annoying, but it also has the potential to be a nice and simple community feature: I think good design can avoid making it intrusive, and @fuddl's sketch looks good.

[pnorman]

With changeset comments we offer a mechanism for users to offer constructive positive feedback, which a simple 👍 does not provide. I would much rather see that used, as my experience has been that such feedback helps encourage mappers more than a like button.

[jase88]

In general I would like to see a notification system for things like notes or changesets comments (by now only email-notification is supported which is kind of annoying).

[brycenesbitt]

"NextDoor Neighbor" has this feature, and I thought I'd hate it. As it turns out it's a nice little recognition feature, and I find it motivating.

That said one can already write a thank you note in a changeset, and the mapper will see it. This proposal could be seen as a "lite" version of that: more interactive than staying silent, less intrusive than commenting on a changeset or messaging the mapper.

Thinking about creating habits (as http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/03/how-to-manufacture-desire.html does) the feedback creates a dopamine hit, a reward for a good edit.

[Zverik]

I agree. "Thanks you"s can be integrated in changeset stream monitoring services, so people monitoring their area could thank new mappers easier, without copypasting a template thank you notice. As I told at SotM 2013, there is not enough positive feedback in OSM, so why not make this simple feature.

[carstenhag]

I'd also really like this and it's always missing (again and again I want to say thanks, but as the note is closed there's no way)!

[danieldegroot2]

See also osmlab/osm-planning#23 and #1076

Related #693 / #844

[OpenGreenStreet]

Is there any hope of this being implemented soon? I would also very much like to have such a function!

#4542
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240225xl_171048-WP_Give_thanks.jpg