Torgut

No, paranoia is not my style. Me and Ariberna know who's the fascist watching.

Now I know where my missing e-mails went! Seriously, with me it was the opposite, for sometime earlier this week I wasn't getting any confirmation e-mails

Does the process explained by wayfrog in the opening post of this thread still stands? I see too many categories kind of abandoned and I plan to try to manage or at least become an officer in some. At the moment I have 4 pending WM's older than one month. My average is 1,53 WM per day.

Very well said. Because he's watching us:

1) Indian Restaurants: by all means. I don't like so much business categories because I see (or saw, as we are past it now) the the threat of having thousands of categories, one for each brand out there. These general and relevant categories are different and love them. 2) Elyob, for me it's weird, for you it's not, and we can agree on disagree. My problems with the bat thing are: 1) if there is a category for bat boxes then categories for animal shelters of each species can exist and it goes back to the excessive multitude of super specific categories; 2) At 58 and having traveling over 120 countries with eyes wide open I never saw a bat box. That makes me wonder if the category doesn't fail one of the criteria expected. 3) Country_wife... don't. That's a path for frustration.

It's not what I see, it is what it is. If you vote in a party that promises an economical liberal policy and one month after the elections they nationalize all there is to nationalize in a country, that's not right. Same here. Ideally, a batch of changes should go out for approval by poll. If someone makes it possible, by all means, sounds great. As you said. But realistically we know that WM is pretty much abandoned by Groundspeak, so we are talking of nothing but dreams. "Then why should we have officers at all when all waymarks should be approved?" To make category rules work. If they are minimal, then minimal action. Not like some officers who create non-existent rules and requirements because they like them, not because they really exist in the category recquirements.

I have another fantastic idea: why not, just saying, why not let's just follow each category requirements and rules and respect what was approved in the poll.

No, it shows there are still silly categories hidden out there. If that Bat House is possible, anything is possible, given the author of the crazy idea massages conveniently the peers in this forums with smooth talk and a fantastic presentation of the category.

If you understand me right, simplify is better than complicate but above all, respect what was approved in poll is better than trick users with a category set of rules and then change them. That's something politicians like to do. People usually are not fond of these things. Neither I am. I understand your concerns about the difficulty of being an officer. In fact, it's not difficult, it's a matter of approve pretty much everything. If in your heart you don't feel that should be done, you can always resign your position as an officer of such categories. Just saying.

That the idea of imposing more troubles to whoever is contributing is awful. The requirements are good as they are and above all are those which the peers voted (well, it's editable, I know, but usually it applies what I said). Leave the categories alone. If something, I know quite a few which should be simplified. A practical example: gazebos. Unaware of the detail, I submitted a gazebo which has a square shape. Declined. Very fairly so as it says in the category that gazebos must be hexagonal or octagonal. What the heck!? I could give many more examples. So, talk about simplify, not complicate.

Interesting debate. In my view, there were some awful mistakes in the past which cannot be reverted and will forever be with us. I will give you an example. Think ethnography. It's is a science, a field of knowledge. It's unique, independent. There are thousands of Ethnography Museums all around the world. Once, I decided to try and create this category. It didn't pass, because, to most of the peers, such places should be included in History Museums. Well, probably many of those peers have no clue of what ethnography is. I do. I should, as I am a historian by academical formation. If I browse History Museums I notice that's a good "catch all" category. Everything fits in History. Well, after all, we only have future and past so it's easy to advocate that everything which can exist in a museum makes it a history museum :-) All of this to say: Ethnography Museums should exist as a category but that can't be because there are hundreds of them already - wrongly - included in another category. As I said, this is just an example of the impact of past wrong decisions. Additionally I feel that trying to create a category is too much of a trouble. Peers are very demanding, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so much for the best reasons. Personally, I don't think I will ever work on it again. I have a few ideas but no patience to go through the process and through the work involved. Eventually, for nothing. And I firmly believe that more than an exhaustion of possible categories, this is the key reason for the lack of them. To finalize, it's obvious that less and less people are into WM. So, if there is not a considerable mass of thinking and working minds, chances of seeing something happen shrink.

After reading the sentence multiple times I think what the original writer intend to say is that those coats of arms found in public buildings, mass produced and placed as a flag of the State, are not accepted, not because they are national coat of arms but because there are too many of them and they are banal.

In that case the rules of this category really need some improvement to avoid doubts: "We are not interesting in all "coat of arms" - for example state/country coat of arms you can find on countless governmental and official building - so this kind of symbol is excluded from this category."

No, they don't accept national coats of arms. So it won't fit there.

Any suggestions for this?

Urban Legends and Superstitions Latest approval: 8th January Waiting for my WM to be approved: 22 days by now Blues Note is an officer and logged in yesterday monkeys4ever is an officer and logged in yesterday QuesterMark is the leader and logged in yesterday wow

Never mind, temporary glitch.

It's just me who open the grid just to see it basically empty? Like, only 5% or 10% of my achieved categories are marked as such there.

Voted

I remember inviting a member to a group and he never got the invitation and then the system kept telling me invitation sen so he never could actually join

didn't arrive

Ghosts signs work well for my WM, thanks!! Or not. Mine is mosaic, not painted on the wall.

Me.

I wasn't aware of this. Good I took a look, very very nice! Thanks! Now, who's gonna be the hero to create an Android app for Waymarking? :-)

Guys, I vaguely remember seeing a category for old vintage ads (not printed in a newspaper or magazine, ads in a public area, like on a wall or so). Can't find it right now. Do such thing exist?