Looking at the parent post, that reminds me of a cache rating system that I proposed on the GC.com site.
My plan was that everyone would get a “token” for every ten caches they’ve found with a maximum of ten tokens per cacher. They could then assign any or all of their tokens to up to ten of their favorite caches. There wouldn’t be any sort of a ranking; it would just signify that “this cache is one of my ten favorite caches.”
On the cache page, you would then see something like “This is a favorite cache of 24 people.” Thanks to the miracle of technology, you could then click on that text and get a page listing all of the other caches that those 24 people have listed as a favorite, grouped by cache. So of those 24 people that liked cache A, you could see that 19 of them liked cache B. That way, you could determine that if that many people liked cache A and so did you, that maybe you’d probably enjoy cache B as well.
If you find a cache you like better, you can reassign your tokens to new caches at any time. In order to keep the system from going stale, tokens would expire after six months and return to your inventory. This would keep deteriorating caches from keeping high ratings from cachers who ranked it as a favorite but are no longer active cachers so their tokens get “stuck” on old or archived caches.
This is something that could probably be created externally where if you choose to participate, you could register your caches on a site and get a graphic to paste into your cache page. Finders would have to go to that page to vote for your cache.
The idea was shot down, but I still like it better than a rating system.
