QuarrellaDeVil
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I have a few waymarks that have been pending for a couple of weeks. As I looked at their respective category leadership today, I noticed that BruceS's last login was "9/2/2020", and I know that cannot be. So....?
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52 minutes ago, T0SHEA said:
Romanesque Architecture is a possibility, if it does not already accept these, perhaps it could be expanded.
I was wondering if Ariberna was referring to pre-Roman culture, which, in his/her case, would at least cover our old friends, the Visigoths.
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4 hours ago, ggmorton said:
Category changes can seem unfair if you have a lot of photos you took for a category and the rules changed before you could get them posted.
Can't argue with that at all, that's reasonable, but Tom's talking about someone who wants to talk to the manager because he's got to provide two photos.
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Not to be Negative Nelly, just facing up to reality...I know that work on the Private Message field most likely won't happen, but if someone gets under the hood, I've observed another annoyance over time:
Submit a Waymark with a private message. While the Waymark write-up should speak for itself, there are times when you may have to explain your thinking to the reviewer, and that may not be appropriate for the Waymark text. OK, the reviewer takes a look and says "I'd like the rest of the group to give me some input here." When they call a vote, the other reviewers cannot see the private message, or at least, the last I knew. I've had a few votes over time where it would have helped the reviewers if they had know my point of view when I hit Submit (and I have one pending right now where I won't be offended if it doesn't pass, but it's annoying to know that the other reviewers can't see what I said). Special thanks goes to a couple of great category officers who sent me private messages, we went back and forth, and even with a decline or a pass-by-the-skin-of-its-teeth vote, we were able to hammer something out that wouldn't be a problem down the road.
Of course, this all fails when you submit a waymark with a private message and the reviewer simply doesn't read it, glances at a few photos and doesn't read your narrative, draws their own conclusion, calls a vote, and leads the other reviewers down the rabbit hole. If they could see that private message, that could be beneficial, I think.
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4 hours ago, iconions said:
He is wanting the name , title, and email address of my boss so he can appeal the decision. He feels that it isn't fair that two photos are required.
Funniest thing I've read all day, Tom...as someone who was active on the BBS circuit years ago and who had his share of "I know your boss and I'm going to get you in trouble even though I really don't and I really can't", I feel your ... laughter. You can't even get away from the whole "Karen" and "I want to speak to your manager" thing even out here in cyberspace!
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1 hour ago, jonathanatpsu said:
I've encountered a few religious buildings that I can't figure out into what category they would fit.
I thought Wedding Chapels might be a fit, but that's a no-go. I've got a couple of these of my own, including one at a college campus, and have wondered the same thing.
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Ever have your nice walk totally deflated? I'd read about her disappearance and discovery so many years later, but this memorial at the University of Texas really drove it home. Doesn't look like it's a go for Citizen Memorials or any of the sculpture categories, so if there's interest somewhere, holler. I won't say "enjoy," but rather, "appreciate."
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11 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:
That is so cool! Maybe Realistic Objects category?
They don't want it. "It's not an object, it's an arch."
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Anybody more savvy than I am about sculpture? Freestanding Arches and Citizen Memorials accepted this bronze arch made up of stacked books. Anywhere else this could go?
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I have one, maybe two examples for this category whenever you're ready.
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On 7/19/2020 at 5:06 PM, ScroogieII said:
When I dragged Barb's a** over the border for the first time in 2000, we crossed into Alberta and shortly after, stopped for lunch. Barb asked for something with fries. The waitress asked: "Would you like gravy on your fries?"
I once treated the future Mrs. QDV to one of the best burgers you can get in Ontario at the Superburger in Primrose, and of course, there was poutine to be had for the fries, er, "chips."
A few years earlier, I saw a poor McDonalds worker flustered in Wyandotte, MI, by someone from just across the border who was asking for vinegar for their chips. Best of luck finding packets of vinegar at McDonalds in suburban Detroit, but at least I was able to say, "Excuse me, I speak Canadian....she means 'fries' when she says 'chips.'"
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I had no problem staying away from other vehicles, but then again, this was Bromide.
https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wm12E4Q_Painted_Turtle_Crossing_Bromide_OK
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Seeing this on my laptop with Chrome, Vivaldi, and Edge. Over on the Android phone, the photos come through just fine with Bromite and Chrome, but not Vivaldi.
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20 hours ago, ScroogieII said:
Drat!! Which one?
Just like the answer to "How many people are buried in Forestvale Cemetery?"
ALL OF THEM!
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14 hours ago, ScroogieII said:
Inevitably, I will leave some good stuff unWaymarked in my wake, but, as a rule, those are errors of omission.
You missed the Starbucks in Montana, for starters, and it was a lot of fun seeing Myrna Loy (QDV Senior's favorite actress) where you guys had been at Forestvale Cemetery in Helena, MT. ?
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23 minutes ago, iconions said:
I wonder how picky the Photos Then and Now officers are? I had to find a picture from the archives of the Galena Library to find out which building was the old Drug Store. We're going back up to the Galena, Illinois, area at the end of the month - I wonder if they are going to make me recreate the flood that was happening at the time of the old picture?
The gentleman who has worked with me on my three has been nothing but fair, reasonable, and polite, and he was gracious about one that he declined on me recently where the responsibility fell on my shoulders, not from any kind of whim or subjective evaluation that is the norm for so many Officers-At-Large. Given your attention to waymarks and your thoroughness, I don't expect any problems. Hell, I have another one I need to finish. I expect that the copy-paste-submit-go crowd would just go for it, but I'm a little particular and want to get that building at an angle as close as I can to the original photo.
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19 hours ago, iconions said:
for grins and giggles I went and and checked this old building in Emporia, Kansas, to see if any news articles had been written. How does one get a news article written in 1882 about someone leaving water running upstairs and ruining a pool table downstairs? Better still, the owner occasioned (tell me THAT isn't an old fashioned use of a word!) "no very great loss, but considerable annoyance." Ah, the things you find Waymarking!
I expect they had a very slow news day. Try this one:
https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wm122EZ_In_the_Sands_of_Somervell_Don_Hills_Store_Glen_Rose_TX
There's an opportunity for a "Photo Goal:" Show yourself being booked into the Glen Rose lockup because you grabbed someone's kid off the street so they could be tempted by toys and candy. [whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King"]
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11 hours ago, ScroogieII said:
Naw! A hockey player lived there and he scored goals in bunches, often three at a time.
Given that I'm the Detroit native and you're referencing hockey, you understand that we have a different kind of hat trick, though, which might be relevant: It's a goal, an assist, and a carcass from the opposing team hung across the boards. Now, in the spirit of the conversation, I offer something similar, at the final resting places of cattle legend, Charles Goodnight, and his wife, Mary Ann.
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7 hours ago, T0SHEA said:
Through our travels in many parts of western Canada and parts of the states we passed, mostly rural farms and ranches, that have placed on the top of fence posts with old cowboy hats or boots, ball caps, hard hats, etc.
Are these from trespassers, following something I see on occasion here in Texas, the carcass of a coyote slung across the fence?
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5 hours ago, vulture1957 said:
That means - to me - that a local neighborhood church would not be in any specific denomination, but then it's multifarious. Can you give an instance of a church that would NOT fit into an existing category?
I am reminded that I have photos of a "biker church" that I spotted some years ago. Non-denominational, it didn't fit into a category until the multifarious one came around. "Voici" an example of something that might be that ol' local neighborhood church, but it already fits into an existing category.
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1 hour ago, CAVinoGal said:
Anyway, I noticed several of those 15 that either no longer exist (replaced by other business or relocated), and one mispelling in the title. I plan to get photos of at least the waymarks that have changed, perhaps more, as I walk around today. Then what? Submit a visit log with the photos and note the changes? How do I get the title changed to the correct spelling of the town name?
I will also make changes to my own waymarks if someone uploads a log with good documentation. However, you should have the option from the waymark's page -- where you see "Visit Waymark (Post Log)" -- to "Edit Waymark". I'd suggest submitting your visit log like you're doing, and then you can go through the "Edit Waymark" process and fill in your changes. Once you hit "Update Waymark", your suggested changes will go to the officers in that waymark's category, and they'll have a look at it and hopefully look at your visit log. As an aside, and I don't know if others have this experience, but if I submit a change, without fail, the site will get after me about not providing a reason for changing the waymark's coordinates. It's rare that I submit coordinate changes anyways, and I just provide "No change to coordinates, site bug" as my reason.
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On 3/27/2020 at 2:26 AM, Max and 99 said:
All of my waymarks have to be finished on my phone now, to assign a state. I'm not a fan of that.
I had no problem creating a waymark and getting the dropdowns to work properly -- coordinates have also been problematical -- when I tried last night on my Kindle Fire with Bromite side-loaded. Knock on wood, but everything's behaving on the PC today, with no changes made to Chrome.
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6 hours ago, Max and 99 said:
All of my waymarks have to be finished on my phone now, to assign a state. I'm not a fan of that.
That hard reset in Chrome is doing the gig for me, but once again, I"m with you. About an hour after we talked about this the other day, it popped up again. And while I don't use Silk on my tablet, I do have Bromite side-loaded ... I'll have to see if the problem's happening over there.
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Your waymark has been denied, however...
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I'm not going to name names, but I'm pretty confident I know who the offenders are. I had one submission declined in the Police Memorials category because the officer-in-too-many-categories just looked at it, assumed it was a grave, and didn't read the narrative, where I clearly explained that the officer in question was buried some miles away, here's a link. His "Grave?" vote took others down the rabbit hole, so I clarified it further, resubmitted it, and the category leader (who's tough but he's always been fair with me) cleared it without comment.
The other was recently in Citizen Memorials, where an obelisk memorial for a pioneer stands in a historic cemetery. Well, you know, every obelisk in a cemetery must be a grave marker, so once again, "Grave?", despite my mentioning three times in the narrative -- including an underlined "This is not a grave" -- that the subject is buried miles away. It did pass, but once again, down the rabbit hole. Today, I can but scratch my head as to how someone can look at something and decide that it isn't what it is, even when the submitter explains it so clearly that the next step would be getting Barney to sing it to the reviewer.
So, what to do when "officers" don't look at their submissions, let alone read their own guidelines? To me, crying "Groundspeak, Groundspeak!" is like we did in the first grade when we called "Teacher! Teacher!" and I think they have better things to do. However, if someone was to say to some of these people, "Look, if you're not going to read my submissions, tell me clearly why I should bother with yours", that's when the cries of "Foul!" and accusations of vindictiveness would show up. If it's game playing on the part of the reviewer, tell me why I have to play their games.