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  1. I was about to send a waymark to the category managers for a vote.

    I'd clicked that first link, but rather than fill out the blank and submit, I clicked "Cancel".

     

    The system approved the waymark. It says by the category managers, not my own account.

     

    I tried to search to see if anyone else posted this. Didn't get any relevant results.

     

    Has anyone else experienced this?

  2. On 3/20/2019 at 6:19 PM, QuesterMark said:

    I hope someone can post a Grave of a Famous Person waymark for him.

    (I didn't know him well enough to know if he'd approve, I'm making an assumption)

     

    Or if not that, then something!

    Being immortalized on the millionth waymark geocoin is a good tribute!

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  3. There's a pedestrian bridge recently installed in Fort Worth, created by an artist and paid for by the City of Fort Worth Public Art Program.

    https://fwpublicart.org/drift/

    DSC_0280-300x300.jpg

    That picture is NOT mine, though I have my own to do the waymark with.

     

    What category would this go in? It doesn't seem like a Hiking Path Footbridge, because it crosses a creek between two sidewalks in the middle of a residential section of town.

     

    Any suggestions?

  4. The concept of an "urban legend" as known in the USA appears to be impossible to explain to folks who have something other than English as their first language, and difficult to many other people.

     

    Of the submissions to the Urban Legends category almost none that are submitted are actually urban legends and a large number of the waymarks that have gotten approved one way or the other over the years aren't urban legends either.

     

    I asked the officers what they thought about trying to adapt the category to handle the legends that are generally submitted and got no response at all.

     

    So now I'm throwing it out to the forums. Reply with some suggestions to rework the category to handle "normal" legends as well as urban legends.

     

    Here's the category for convenience: https://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=ff570b23-a81a-46e5-b2a5-48f9096a6605&gid=6

  5. I just voted, typed a bunch of stuff, submitted, and came here to read.

    Saw elyob's post about not hijacking the vote, so I went back and removed most of my text, but didn't change my vote.

    So here's what I removed:

    "I read this category description yesterday, and gave myself a day to think about it.

    I have a big problem with your disclaimer, or rather the fact that the disclaimer is needed.

    I had to go see what the definition of "sex-trafficking" is, and for good measure looked up brothel and bordello as well, just to be sure I had my terms straight.
    (spelling note: The definitions I found for "sex-trafficking" don't have the hyphen.) Sex trafficking is, essentially, the modern slave trade specializing in sex. Another way to put it is forced prostitution.

    I understand you're trying to protect Waymarking and waymarkers from coming into contact with human trafficking.

    Similarly, you're trying to avoid legal issues with the 1950 time limit.

    The problem is that we can't know about the human trafficking part. Perhaps that former brothel was an iconic part of the American West, but we do not know the circumstances of the employees. One or more of them could have been in a human trafficking situation.

    And since I'm typing this as part of my decision-making process it occurs to me that many Old West Saloons could be thought of as brothels--but not all of them, or not all the time."

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  6. Thanks Bootron!

     

    It's almost noon CDT here and everything seems to be working!

    I (and I'm sure many others) appreciate the addition of the server and, despite all our whining online, appreciate all the lackeys' work to get the wrinkles out.

     

    I have released another fix that will hopefully remove all the "ambiguous control" errors.

     

    Also, a few more things:

     

    1. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, we have added a second server to the Waymarking site and there obviously have been some undesired effects as a result. We have been working to fix these problems as best as we can with the limited resources that we are devoting to the site at this time.

     

    2. It is true that Groundspeak has de-prioritized the Waymarking website as compared to our other sites (also obvious, I'm sure). At this point we are committed to keeping it up and functioning, but are not adding new features or spending significant time maintaining the site. In making this decision (which frankly happened years ago) we had a couple options: A] shut down the site altogether, or B] keep the site up and running with limited support. Since there continues to be a group of dedicated Waymarkers that use the site regularly, we have decided that option B is the best one for now.

     

    3. We don't know what the future of Waymarking will be. We haven't made any decisions and are looking at various options. For now, we are continuing to do what we've done for the past several years, which is to leave the site up and running and do what we can to keep it functioning as is.

     

    Bootron

     

    I'm sorry Groundspeak didn't capitalize on the Waymarking database earlier. I'm not going to go check how it really played out, but I was active on Waymarking before I ever heard of Foursquare and their checkins and mayorships (those functions have now moved to their Swarm app). Now there are tons of "what's nearby" apps too. But none of them are crowdsourced like WM and most of them don't have the range of POIs that Waymarking has. By "range" I mean all the different categories. I imagine that many Ingress players have used Waymarking.com to submit good Portal candidates. (I admit I went the other way and found an historical marker to Waymark because of a portal I captured.) And it appears to me that many geocachers are logging at least a few waymarks, based on the visits I'm seeing on my own submissions.

     

    Anyway, thanks again!

  7. ...I'm in IT. Because of that I sent a detailed note to contact@Groundspeak.com explaining all the stuff I had tried and the results I was getting. That was on the 14th.

    On the 15th, well after it had been working well for me for a while, I got the following reply:...

    Hi QuesterMark, please post the content of your mail here in the forum, thanks!

     

    I sent the following email to contact@Groundspeak.com on Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:44 PM:

    Good morning!

     

    I've been having issues with the Waymarking site. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but apparently not everyone is having the same problems.

     

    I can't create a new waymark.

    I can't visit a waymark.

    I can't approve a waymark submission.

    I can't even look at my approval queues.

    I can't even open this waymark's page: http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMP5KC_Prospect_Area_Library_Prospect_Pennsylvania

     

    I can get to my own profile, and go to the lists tab, but if I click on any category or count on that tab, I get the error box, just like with all of the above. But the box with my counts isn't showing.

     

    This has been going on since this past Saturday, the 11th.

     

    My username is QuesterMark.

    Here's the link to my profile: http://www.Waymarking.com/users/profile.aspx?f=1&guid=2eab057c-087b-407d-a156-dacdc7038e31&mypage=1&gt=2

     

    Hopefully this gives you some bit of info that will help you solve the problem!

     

    If you need any other info or want me to try anything, let me know!

  8. Are any of you in the Information Technology fields? I am and have been since 1980. I know whereof I speak. I have worked for AT&T, IBM, and Toshiba. Not as a contractor, but as a regular employer in those companies.

     

    This is the longest server outage that I have seen in 35 years of software architecture, design, and use. Someone is trying to Do It Themselves instead of calling in someone who knows these servers and get the blasted things fixed. No large company like Walmart or IBM or Federal Express or whatever would stand for such excuses for so many weeks.

     

    Enough of the excuses. Have the Groundspeak CIO call in the president of whoever sold them these Commodore-64 servers and get the blasted things fixed!!

     

    Think I'm joking. Nope. It's called escalation. And it does not seem to be working right at Groundspeak.

     

    I'm in IT. Because of that I sent a detailed note to contact@Groundspeak.com explaining all the stuff I had tried and the results I was getting. That was on the 14th.

    On the 15th, well after it had been working well for me for a while, I got the following reply:

     

    Hello Mark,

     

    Thank you for contacting us and for your interest in Waymarking. In order to support the rapid community growth of Geocaching.com in the past couple of years, it has been necessary to shift previously dedicated resources from Waymarking to Geocaching. Unfortunately, at this time we are only able to provide limited technical support. Please try posting your question in the Waymarking forums. These forums are monitored and can usually provide you with the best support.

     

    Sorry that we can't be of more help at this time.

     

    Janelle Geocaching Community Manager

  9. The site worked enough for me to resubmit a rejected waymark of my own and for me to approve three waymarks in various categories.

    This was at approximately 2015-07-14 15:45 CDT.

     

    Note that at 12:45, three hours ago, I sent an email to Groundspeak explaining that I was having trouble, all the things that didn't work, a few of the things that DID work, my username, and the URL to my Waymarking profile.

     

    Perhaps it is not a server problem, but rather a data problem with some corrupt user records that have to be fixed.

     

    Now we wait until this evening when I can try to post a new waymark.

  10. I can't review waymarks either. But when I go to the front page, I see new ones have been approved since this morning...when I couldn't approve them either.

     

    I can get to my profile and I can get to my lists tab, but then when I click on the count of one of the lists it errors.

     

    When I try to get into the Texas Historical Markers category it errors.

     

    Basically I can't post or approve.

     

    And if I try to log a visit, boom.

     

    I've tried Clearing my browser cache in Chrome, I've tried using Opera, I've tried using Firefox. I've tried logging off, THEN clearing the cache and logging back on...but I still get the errors.

     

    I had NO problem this afternoon logging a geocache find using the official paid geocaching.com iOS app. I was just able to get to my geocaching profile, look at the last cache I found today, and put a watch on it without incident.

  11. I got the same errors as above when I tried to post tonight.

     

    So I tried to approve one and I got this:

     

    Server Error in '/' Application.

     

    Could not find a part of the path 'E:\inetpub\Waymarking.com\xml\scoring_schema.xml'.

     

    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

     

    Exception Details: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'E:\inetpub\Waymarking.com\xml\scoring_schema.xml'.

     

    Source Error:

     

    An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

     

    Stack Trace:

     

    [DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'E:\inetpub\Waymarking.com\xml\scoring_schema.xml'.]

    WM.UI.ApproveWaymarks.btnAccept_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) +2024

    System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +9628722

    System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +103

    System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10

    System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13

    System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +35

    System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1724

     

    Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.34248

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