Require certain number of tasks solved to gain "reputation" before you can create challenges

[mvexel]

I would like to raise the bar a little bit for creating MapRoulette challenges. Reason for this is I want to ensure when you create a challenge you have a decent amount of familiarity with the MapRoulette application and "flow".

This could take two forms that I see:

1. Lock "Create and Manage" until you have completed (fixed) at least N tasks.
2. Don't lock the functionality but don't allow a challenge to be made public until at least N tasks in it are fixed.

This is a tricky one, because I really don't want to create the incentive to game the system by marking tasks as fixed when the user has done nothing to fix them, but on the other hand I do want to continue to improve MR to ensure higher quality tasks.

[mcliquid]

Just as additional idea: Consider the total OSM changes or changesets of a user to get information about the experience level.

Of it is a voting I would choose the second one and implement a report button for challenges.

[mvexel]

Thanks for the feedback @mcliquid.

Consider the total OSM changes or changesets of a user to get information about the experience level.

The question is how many though? You could argue that someone with zero changesets in OSM should not be allowed to create a MR challenge, but how many is "enough"?

Of it is a voting I would choose the second one and implement a report button for challenges.

It's not a voting thing :)

We already have the option to leave a comment to the challenge owner. One thing we can consider is to temporarily suspend a challenge if the owner does not respond to those comments in a timely manner.

I think there needs to be some effort on the side of the "reporter". You can't just have people "report" things without also supplying an argument as to why they think the challenge is "bad".