Existing Category Issue

[+TheBeanTeam]

Anamorphous Street Art category.

 

So we have an odd situation in the category.

 

I didn't create it and didn't know I was leading it until I received a note from a Waymarker about a submission.

 

The creator/leader has a history of being gone for a long period of time and then showing up and purging the category of items that did not fit her original intent. Most of the submissions are trompe l'oil and not anamorpic. The problem is that Anamorphic Art while closely related is not trompe l'oil. This page Anamorpic Art. What is Anamorphosis

 

Here is the difference according the page linked above. "Oblique anamorphosis is closely related to an artistic technique called trompe l'oeil (French for "deceiving the eye", pronounced "tromp loy"). Both use perspective constructions to create a "trick" image, but the difference lies in the nature of the trick. For an anamorphosis, the viewer is presented with something that does not make sense when viewed conventionally, and so he or she must seek out the unconventional viewpoint from which the trick is resolved. For trompe l'oeil, the viewer, standing in one particular (and usually conventional) place, is tricked into seeing an invented image as if it were reality."

 

I have approved many waymarks that the leader would later come back and disallow. It was very frustrating so I stopped approving in the category.

 

The way the category is written most submissions do not fit the leaders narrow definition of anamorphic street art.

 

I thought I would bring this up in the forums and see how the community thinks I should proceed.

 

The leader last logged in 11 months ago. I am planning on removing the old leader from approving in the category. Since I am now the leader I am considering the possibly of opening it up to trompe l'oeil of all kinds but I don't want to create a problem with the other members of the community.

 

What is you two dollars and fifty cents worth of input?

[+Benchmark Blasterz]

My 2c (having had several declined a year after approval) is that if the new category managers want to expand the category they should. It's your category now - run it as you wish

[+TheBeanTeam]

(having had several declined a year after approval)

 

UH yeah....sorry about that.

[+TheBeanTeam]

oh by the way you owe me 2.48 more of input somewhere.

[+Harry Dolphin]

trompe l'oeil

[+Benchmark Blasterz]

(having had several declined a year after approval)

 

UH yeah....sorry about that.

 

No worries Sometimes that's Waymarking

[+MountainWoods]

I agree with Blasterz and BK. But if you do open it up to that trumpet stuff, go ahead and change the description to explicitly state that the category accepts both anamorphosis and the deceiving the eye stuff. That is, don't let anything to chance. You're expanding the category, so update the description. IF you think that it's worth adding the other stuff. I'm not familiar with either thing, being a country boy who spends as little time in the city as possible (though I went to college in Chicago for 5.5 years...). So my only point is to make the wording match the desire.

[+elyob]

Don't you still have the original problem? Category creator can return and unapprove previously-approved posts, even if the posts do meet an expanded category description.

Edited March 9, 2017 by elyob

[+elyob]

Category creator is an officer.

[+ChapterhouseInc]

This has been a problem category since inception. What does and doesn't fit? Seems like the 'founder' was the only one who 'really knew.'

I am sure I am still an officer here due to the limited membership, or as a favor to the leader. It seems as if a lot of categories have membership/officer issues.

 

BUT, I AM NOT discussing the problems with 'Waymarking' here. I have received several messages in the recent past about my 'lack of participation' on here anymore. (gloat: I was once the #1 waymarker) Sorry to those who sent messages I 'ignored', but I think most of the answers you can figure out yourself.

 

Back on track:

Bean: I am approving of opening the description to include more. If not you must EXPLICITLY describe and example what is allowed, and direct them to the other applicable categories for things that don't fit. I have created a category (or 2) to be the exact opposite of an existing category that did not accept things (see 'Non-fountains'). But that is not always the answer. Its a shame that all the waymarks the previous leader declined cannot be reevaluated to return to the category if that is the answer decided upon.

[+*Team Krombaer*]

Es ist echt ein Ärgernis: -----Manche reissen sich hier den Arsch auf und andere sind seit Jahren inaktiv. das ist ein Großes Problem bei unserem schönen Hobby... meint *SportBaer*