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s4xton
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Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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Location: Minneapolis, MN
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject: Just when you thought it couldn't get worse... |
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Check out the user profile/stats pages on geocaching.com.
*sigh*
When is Jeremy going to hand it off to someone that knows something about information arch.? As a bonus, someone who knows design too...
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Sorry.
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Centris
Past MnGCA Chair
Joined: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 620
Location: Southwest WY
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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aaaakkkkk -- you are right -- those are bad!
I got real excited at first when I clicked on the bug symbol on the "found" side and thought they had FINALLY decided that the bugs were *important* enough to track finds on each individual, but it only took me to the main bug page 
Yup -- this is not good. I am sure he may get some complaints on this.
I may have to wander into the big forums and post -- god forbid! |
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15Tango
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Joined: 17 Dec 2002
Posts: 825
Location: St. Paul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:54 am Post subject: |
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I don't see anything wrong with the new look for the profiles. Then again, I also like the new "Nearest Caches" page, too, but I was at Guard camp when that changed, and I probably missed it when all the bugs were being worked out.
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Moe the Sleaze
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Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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Location: Champlin, MN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Metathesiophobia.
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Centris
Past MnGCA Chair
Joined: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 620
Location: Southwest WY
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Moe the Sleaze wrote: |
Each year, this common phobia causes countless thousands of people needless distress.
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most fear of change therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to the very changes they fear over and over again -- which is totally unnecessary, and we believe damaging.......
Metathesiophobia... often significantly impacts the quality of life.
...A variety of potent drugs are often prescribed for fear of change....At best they temporarily suppress the symptoms through chemical interaction |
What exactly are you trying to imply here Moe??? 
Now where did I leave my cheese..........???
All kidding aside, I think a two page profile/stats for each person is cumbersome. It could have all been on one page and they could have FINALLY added the "Bugs found" page for each user.
If they can rearrange all the catagories and types of caches found, caches placed and arrange the types of bugs into "dog tags" (aren't they "bug tags") and two types of geocoins, why can't they just make a simple list of the Tbugs we have found? </soapbox> |
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LanceVE
Geocacher
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
Posts: 132
Location: Oakdale
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 8:19 am Post subject: Pssst.. Centris: You forgot your <soapbox> tag |
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In all seriousness, I'm not that terribly fond of the new profiles either, but I can see some explanations why they were done this way.
I myself would prefer just a nice clean total, but since there's always disagreement over how that number should be derived or what stat is imprtant or should be listed in the top 10... (Need I say P2P?) Now people can cook the stats to their own liking.... If you don't think virtuals matter... Just leave that out when you add things up...
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Not the most effective way to convey data in my opinion, but the way to take the most heat off Jeremey....
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I still can't figure a reason for not displaying the bugs a person has found....
Especially since it would be a nice way to figure out how many TB's people are hoarding...... [/b] |
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s4xton
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Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Posts: 1070
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Fear of change? Actually the opposite. If I had it my way, I'd have the entire site re-done.
I just think it's going in the wrong (lack of) direction right now.
-Aaron |
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towlebooth
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Joined: 26 Nov 2002
Posts: 1269
Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I just noticed that the stats page no longer counts up cache totals. There goes the easy way to do our congratulations area on the front page! |
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IBcrashen
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Joined: 17 Dec 2002
Posts: 244
Location: Duluth
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15Tango
Past MnGCA Chair
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Location: St. Paul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:22 am Post subject: |
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I also look at the Inside Corner stats--sometimes, one has to go to the missing caches link to update their stats, though. I think it mines GC.com once every fifteen minutes, and it'll miss some logs when GC.com is busy, like when everyone is logging their weekend finds. I know towlebooth has more than 361 finds, for instance.
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Moe the Sleaze
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Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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Location: Champlin, MN
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| ...and it'll miss some logs when GC.com is busy, like when everyone is logging their weekend finds. |
It also misses multiple finds for the same cache (for instance if you re-find a cache that has been moved or you report several temporary finds at a geocaching event). I think it also misses "members only" caches.
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TimbreWlf
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Joined: 14 Jul 2003
Posts: 347
Location: Ham Lake, MN
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| I think it also misses "members only" caches. |
Okay, enough lurking 
Just to comment that it does indeed count the "member only" caches, as half of mine are KB Caches and members only.
Noli nothis permittere te terere |
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rickrich
Geocacher
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 673
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:06 am Post subject: geo-count |
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My collection of geo-* tools for Linux (http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/geo/) includes geo-count:
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$ geo-count 82192
USERNAME: rickrich
Traditional Caches 55
Virtual Caches 6
Unknown (Mystery) Caches 3
Multi-caches 11
Event Caches 6
TOTAL 81
$ geo-count -s 82192
81 rickrich
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It currently requires the user number, rather than the user name, however.
-Rick |
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LanceVE
Geocacher
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
Posts: 132
Location: Oakdale
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| TimbreWlf wrote: |
Just to comment that it does indeed count the "member only" caches, as half of mine are KB Caches and members only.
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No it doesn't count members only. as is stated here
KB CHANGED his caches to members only.
They must have been public when you originally logged them. |
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King Boreas
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Joined: 16 Dec 2002
Posts: 2348
Location: Exploring Minnesota
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| They must have been public when you originally logged them. |
No, they were "member only" when he found them, BUT they all started out as public.
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