Manville Possum
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If I am understanding correctly, I believe it's the same thing I am seeing. A few days ago the alert and requiring review popped up. If you follow that link using a basic member account it takes you to that message page about PM's.
I used the link to approve a WM today via the email, but I don't think basic members can access the review queue from the main page anymore. Anyway, that is what I have noticed and the problem was not present until about 3 days ago.
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It was accepted in the silhouette art sculptures category.
Thanks for helping. After 10 years of using this site I'm still not any good at it. I try to keep it simple and found this marker interesting. I was discouraged here, but when I found out what it actually is and who the artist was and that there are others interested in these outside of Waymarking.
I believe I can locate more examples of the Harrison Mayes Roadside Art signs.
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10 minutes ago, elyob said:
Mayes and his signs certainly are famous. If you get lucky, there may be a reference to your sign in a local newspaper for the News Article Location waymark category.
I can't find anything locally, but even found a nice youtube video and there is a museum about 2 hours away in Clinton, Tennessee that has a display of his artifacts.
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The artist that made these and placed them in at least 40 States rode around on this bike and was into Planetary Aviation Evangelism. Space Invaders?
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Those are public art placed by Henry Harrison "Harrison" Mayes. I was correct about the old part.
I believe these can be Waymarked now with more research.
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I was correct about seeing more of these in other States.
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25 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:
Soooo, give it a try, mail the leader of silhouette art sculptures and see what he has to say.
That is the same person that told me that it can't be Waymarked in ANY category, so what now?
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9 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:
Don't be so negative. I think they all try to keep their categories "clean" within the borders that they defined in the category description. Sometimes these borders aren't very clear, but I don't believe that anybody has the intent to run off members. Why would someone do that? I'm an officer in just two categories and I always find it hard to reject waymarks, especially if it's a general problem and nothing that can be fixed easyly. After all we are all only humans and we all have our own opinion about what is art, what is old, what is interesting etc. And I personally always try to understand their arguments like I hope they try to understand mine.
Soooo, give it a try, mail the leader of silhouette art sculptures and see what he has to say.
Some of those categories have inactive leaders, so I can't contact them and ask. I have got negative responses and nothing helpful. I was told my WM would not fit any know category, so I went to another and found the same officer there, so why bother?
As many things that are Waymarked, have I found an object that can't? I don't think so.
Waymarking has Devilish locations and 666 sightings as categories. Maybe Jesus is just not welcome here?
Thank you for your help.
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7 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:
Yes, I also had waymarks being rejected and I didn't (and sometimes still don't) understand why. Whenever it comes to terms like "art", "old", "interesting" etc. you depend on the good will of an officer. I think the site admins also had to read through the long description of the possible categories and they can also only presume what the officers will decide. Best chance is to contact the leaders and ask for their opinion, if you don't want to waste too much time creating waymarks that get rejected.
Or just quit Waymarking and having to deal with this group that hijacked it. I believe it's their intent to run off members here.
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5 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:
Well, to me a "Relief Art Sculpture" needs more than engraved letters. Most headstones (here in Austria) have letters engraved in stone, but that isn't what I would call "Art". On the other hand, I assume that the heart is rather flat, so it's definitely a silhouette and (to me) closer to the term "Art" than engraved letters. You might as well post them in both categories and see what happens.
I agree, but what I have encountered is that several of these categories have the same officer, so whatever category I submit it to, they will find an excuse to reject it.
IF we had a site admin here, maybe they could help?
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6 hours ago, PISA-caching said:
I guess, that the idea of "Etched in Stone" is to list long-lasting citations. Therefore they ought to be 3dimensional. If it is just painted on the sign, the text might have been there for 60 years, but it's also possible that is had a different text earlier or will have a different text in the future. If it is not 3dimensional, it's no relief, no?
How about "Silhouette Public Art Sculptures"? At least it's a Silhouette of a heart, no?
It is a relief, the letters are about 3/4 inch deep and painted black.
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6 hours ago, PISA-caching said:
About the cheating: I was referring to the idea to use photoshop. If you really put a space invader on it, it would be ok. But would the owner like it? :-)
I would not deface public or private property, and it's way I was against the space invader category for promoting it. Maybe in slums and ghettos they are considered art.
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I have 4 different photos, I'm sure cropping would help. The quote and source were an issue as well.
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16 minutes ago, L0ne.R said:
What floors me is that anyone who found a cache in this state would not log an NA on this cache because they consider it a good cache. And that's after reading the consensus from everyone who responded in the forum topic, that the cache is gross and needs to be archived. She won't log an NA.
Well, logging NA may cause problems with that community.
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I replaced a few just like it last week with new containers and logs because I enjoyed the location.
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29 minutes ago, fi67 said:
All the categories in the Signs department are for signs that have some relation to the location of the sign, how weak ever, but all those signs say: "Here ..."
Your sign has a general message that is not refer to the actual location. I still believe, Etched in Stone is the best place (but I am not an officer). Was it rejected?
The reviewer thought it was flat and the letters were painted on, and it needed to last 100 years. I'm guessing it's already been there for 60 years.
Also the source of the quote was cited, which is the Bible from Revelations 22:12
From reading the criteria, I believe it fits.
Another category I have been viewing is relief art. I believe it meets the criteria there as well. Most of these categories have the same officers, I was hoping for some help and not what I've encountered here.
I only ask for very little here.
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26 minutes ago, Stoplight25 said:
the only real problem I have had is with a lack of geocoin etiquette.
I won't drop a trackable locally because there is one account (a teen) that grabs them all and keeps them. Last count was 17 in their inventory.
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Wayfrog,
I found 37 categories for signs, and none seem to be fitting for my new WM. Would you care to help me find a category for it?
Thank you.
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6 hours ago, PISA-caching said:
If cheating is allowed: Claim that it was moved and post it to "Relocated structures". :-)
Sorry, at first I did not get your joke. I did not understand there was a category called human error.
It's not cheating if I actually place a space invader on the marker is it?
You know, jokes aside. I find it interesting. I took the time to Waymark it with pictures and coordinates, and I would like to list it as MY waymark. My son and I were having a nice outing that day and it is the only one item that I felt compelled to waymark, and I took several pictures that day. Now, I come here wanting to waymark 1 item that I don't know where exactly to put it, so I come here to ask. I'm only looking for 1 category to place my new WM in. Is that so difficult for the community here to help?
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8 hours ago, kaschper69 said:
Because, who really believes in such a thing?
Myself and others of the Christian faith. I'm sure that to nonbelievers think that this is just a silly sign, but to me it's not. It's a reminder to me that Christ is returning.
It is a quote from Revelations in the Bible. It has stood the test of time, it's old. It's concrete and formed as one solid piece.
What is becoming of Waymarking. I believe the end is near.
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3 hours ago, fi67 said:
Simply, no. Adopting has never been intended and there are no procedures for it, neither anything similar.
Yet new leadership can be planted to category management and it's kosher.
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20 minutes ago, NYPaddleCacher said:
From what I have seen, those that tend to only write very short (tftc only) logs write them on all (or most caches they found) and those that tend to write long logs for a cache tend to write long logs on all or most of the caches they find. If the only logs on a cache are very short or tftc only then it might be an indication that it's not a cache worth visiting, but even a highly favorited cache might get several tftc logs if it's been visited by a group of like minded geocachers that never write long logs.
I'm sure you are correct, but that is not my experience.
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Now thinking more about it, brief logs are handy for me to weed out caches that I don;t want to visit. If I see "tftc" posted by several others, then I will most likely pass on it.
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I found an option to turn it on or off.
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Must be PM to approve WM's !?
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I'm sorry, and I'm a basic member myself, but Waymarking should not depend upon Geocachers to support their site. I feel like if we want the full feature access, then we need to be Premium Members. It's no different than the Geocachers paying for full features on their site, yet they are the ones that pay to keep the lights on here.