Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
It takes effort to apply a favorite. Most knuckleheads are also inherently lazy. So I am hopeful.
On the Left Side of the Road...@3 Hawks wrote:
Ding, ding, ding!!! It has already begun.
Oh well, I’ve said my part. I can go back to avoiding the Forums for another 5 or 6 months.
Boy, I don’t see anything argumentative in this thread, unless you’re referring to something going on elsewhere.
I agree with your assessment that the system is going to be skewed toward cache owners with a posse of followers.
However, the community has been asking for some sort of evaluation system for a while. No matter what type of rating system you put in place, you are going to have ballot-box stuffing. The interesting twist to this system is that you have a limited # of favorites, although I think 1:10 is way too high. I know there’s no way I’m going back through our found list to tag 190 or so caches as favorites.
Look on the positive side: If the system ultimately has no value to you, you just ignore it. Or you learn to ignore “favorites” associated with cache-owners whose MO you don’t like. (Not as useful for out-of-area visits of course.) But if the system has value, that’s great.
So, the only down side has no real consequence, and there is a potential upside of usefulness. This makes the favorites system a good idea to implement IMO.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Lostby7 wrote:
@CodeJunkie wrote:
I’m actually a littlc concerned about the stats page. It list the nearest and farthest cache which a good programmer could triangulate based on these 2 points and locate my house. That concerns me a bit.
Actually with the closest being only a 1/4 mile away it’s pretty easy to figure it out.
You don’t actually list your homes coords do you? I list a park near my home as my home coords.
I can’t let THEM find me……
Of course not, I list the coordinates to your home!
On the Left Side of the Road...@kc9gbo wrote:
Any hike that doesn’t elict the kids whining.
That pretty much means getting out of the car, doesn’t it?
On the Left Side of the Road...@zuma wrote:
Long explanation 😉
I can see this as a no/low cost/effort idea to to increase exposure.
My experience with other groups that go to Facebook, however, is not positive. It seems the wider audience brings the nutso folks out so the group either ends up doing lots of moderating or eventually just shuts down the comments to be announcement-only.
However, I don’t have experience with other geocaching sites on Facebook, UNGA notwithstanding 😉 , so I’m not speaking from a position of any knowledge, just babbling (as usual).
On the Left Side of the Road...What do you think the purpose/connection of Facebook would be to the WGA or the WGA website?
I’m thinking aloud here but you have the WGA site where everybody is anonymous using their geo-handle (ok, most of the regulars know who each other is). Facebook is not anon.
So I’m thinking the WGA website and forums are the main “social” area of the WGA. Not to mention the fact that they can be moderated more reliably than Facebook.
Or, is Facebook meant as another advertising venue or draw for new members? If so, how?
Regarding YouTube, I don’t see how that could be used but I’d like to hear how. I’m not a Twitter user so I can’t comment on that.
On the Left Side of the Road...Out of the frying pan, into the wild blue yonder.
(ok, I’m running out of ideas…)
On the Left Side of the Road...Are you making my point or arguing with me 😛
On the Left Side of the Road...Meaning, all you really “get” from geocaching is the experience that you remember of having gone.
Everything else is just ethereal, whether it be your find count or a fancy new souvenier graphic. Just a bunch of 1s and 0s.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Those are really nice, but I still ask…what the heck is the point?
Same point as an electronic smilely. 😀
On the Left Side of the Road...Maybe some cache owners just don’t feel like using attributes. After all, they’re not required to publish a cache, just like writing a unique or meaningful log entry isn’t required either, as has been pointed out ad nauseam in these forums…
On the Left Side of the Road...Man, it’s so quiet in here you could hear a church mouse.
On the Left Side of the Road...I’m caught between a rock and a pickle.
On the Left Side of the Road...My ship has flown the coop.
On the Left Side of the Road... -
AuthorPosts
