+lumbricus Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Thanks Groundspeak for the updated stats! Rank - Username - Waymarks Reviewed 01 - silverquill - 63,060 02 - saopaulo1 - 42,062 03 - lumbricus - 36,379 04 - BruceS - 23,993 05 - Math Teacher - 22,888 06 - bluesnote - 20,171 07 - Outspoken1 - 15,229 08 - Dorcadion Team - 15,154 09 - Marine Biologist - 10,909 10 - TheBeanTeam - 10,732 11 - Team Farkle 7 - 10,123 12 - PTCRAZY - 9,680 13 - Ernmark - 7,971 14 - condor1 - 7,892 15 - Dragontree - 7,842 16 - Max Cacher - 7,547 17 - The Blue Quasar - 7,389 18 - fi67 - 6,822 19 - GEO*Trailblazer 1 - 6,517 20 - tiki-4 - 6,072 21 - thebeav69 - 6,055 22 - Jake39 - 5,939 23 - Mark1962 - 5,857 24 - Bernd das Brot Team - 5,395 25 - iconions - 4,945 26 - Lord Elwood - 4,679 27 - deano1943 - 4,635 28 - Brentorboxer - 4,623 29 - YoSam. - 4,540 30 - Team Sieni - 4,540 31 - Black Dog Trackers - 4,409 32 - QuesterMark - 4,339 33 - bootron - 4,216 34 - veritas vita - 4,117 35 - monkeys4ever - 3,927 36 - huggy_d1 - 3,926 37 - Jeremy - 3,876 38 - wildwoodke - 3,845 39 - ChapterhouseInc - 3,644 40 - Thorny1 - 3,633 41 - Norfolk12 - 3,528 42 - Firefrog69 - 3,500 43 - Tuena - 3,412 44 - sfwife - 3,376 45 - ucdvicky - 3,307 46 - RakeInTheCache - 3,307 47 - razalas - 3,274 48 - frivlas - 3,263 49 - scrambler390 - 3,226 50 - cache_test_dummies - 3,220 51 - MountainWoods - 3,045 52 - Lat34North - 3,002 53 - GT.US - 2,977 54 - the federation - 2,852 55 - Blue Man - 2,804 56 - macleod1 - 2,766 57 - DougK - 2,698 58 - GA Cacher - 2,695 59 - Rayman - 2,555 60 - Tharandter - 2,544 61 - bill&ben - 2,515 62 - Marky - 2,444 63 - Aladdin - 2,370 64 - The Leprechauns - 2,329 65 - MikeGolfJ3 - 2,286 66 - BK-Hunters - 2,266 67 - chstress53 - 2,262 68 - dreamhummie - 2,223 69 - woolsox - 2,221 70 - Pawsitraction - 2,218 71 - NCDaywalker - 2,194 72 - Faithwalker & DaMama - 2,139 73 - Bryan - 2,123 74 - Team Min Dawg - 2,110 75 - Zork V - 1,894 76 - Biquidou - 1,881 77 - Windsocker - 1,853 78 - papermanone & catlover - 1,832 79 - J.A.R.S. - 1,798 80 - MNSearchers - 1,773 81 - Hikenutty - 1,767 82 - Atlanta Highland Bagpiper - 1,764 83 - Team GPSaxophone - 1,741 84 - puczmeloun - 1,723 85 - OpinioNate - 1,706 86 - The_Draglings - 1,696 87 - lenron - 1,688 88 - CM-14 - 1,656 89 - muddawber - 1,631 90 - Crystal Sound - 1,623 91 - haggaeus - 1,607 92 - South Surrey Scavengers - 1,590 93 - harleydavidsonandy - 1,581 94 - Raine - 1,576 95 - Selmice - 1,571 96 - Tante.Hossi - 1,551 97 - Arogant - 1,522 98 - StagsRoar - 1,515 99 - clayj - 1,506 100 - kbarhow - 1,506 Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Peinliche Selbsdarstellungsnummer. Fail Quote Link to comment
+fi67 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Peinliche Selbsdarstellungsnummer. Fail Um nur Minuten später von einem durch keinerlei Sachkenntnis getrübten Beitrag um Klassen übertroffen zu werden. Wir geben uns neidlos geschlagen. Das ist die wahre Meisterschaft der Peinlichkeit, da können wir noch lange üben. @lumbricus: Thanks a lot! Great! Quote Link to comment
+fi67 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Oh what great reviewers we have, and yet my WM's stagnate in their categories even after contacting the group leader! What a joke! Waymarking may be about the numbers too the core members here, but the few of us that don't care about numbers and create few WM's are greatly effected by our WM's being ignored by these great reviewers! Think about the rest of us that only have a few hundred WM's. All I'm asking is that my WM's be reviewed. When I contacted the leader and ask why, I get no response. This should not be. This should not be. But I still resist to believe that anyone ignores submissions. The numbers above are all-time stats, they do not tell you if an officer has been active in the recent years. And I know the problem of non-responisve officers, even active ones. My guess is that many of them have some filter rules for the emails from Waymarking.com because of all those notifications. They don't even see you email at all. Try to contact them over their geocaching profile! In my experience the response rate is much higher then. Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 It worked. Your waymark got reviewed. Those reviewers must work extremely hard. I review waymarks everyday yet I have still not earned my way on to that list. Quote Link to comment
+iconions Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Oh what great reviewers we have, and yet my WM's stagnate in their categories even after contacting the group leader! What a joke! Waymarking may be about the numbers too the core members here, but the few of us that don't care about numbers and create few WM's are greatly effected by our WM's being ignored by these great reviewers! Think about the rest of us that only have a few hundred WM's. All I'm asking is that my WM's be reviewed. When I contacted the leader and ask why, I get no response. This should not be. This should not be. But I still resist to believe that anyone ignores submissions. The numbers above are all-time stats, they do not tell you if an officer has been active in the recent years. And I know the problem of non-responisve officers, even active ones. My guess is that many of them have some filter rules for the emails from Waymarking.com because of all those notifications. They don't even see you email at all. Try to contact them over their geocaching profile! In my experience the response rate is much higher then. I know of one reviewer - Geo*Trailblazer*1 who passed away a few years ago - he was a great waymarker and geocacher and will be missed. I will tell you that I do not filter my emails, although I do have a separate account just for Waymarking/geocaching. I respond to any direct emails I get as soon as I can - I cannot get on personal email at work. As far as the rest of the first quote - no matter how I respond, it's going to start a crapstorm. So, I will just say that I really try to make a decision on a waymark in 48 hours and leave it at that. Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 It's pretty quiet on the Waymarking forums in recent days. Maybe it's time for a crapstorm. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment
+lumbricus Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share Posted June 10, 2017 ...@lumbricus: Thanks a lot! Great! You're most welcome. ...I will tell you that I do not filter my emails, although I do have a separate account just for Waymarking/geocaching. I respond to any direct emails I get as soon as I can - I cannot get on personal email at work... So, I will just say that I really try to make a decision on a waymark in 48 hours and leave it at that. Very commendable. Quote Link to comment
+8Nuts MotherGoose Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 It worked. Your waymark got reviewed. Those reviewers must work extremely hard. I review waymarks everyday yet I have still not earned my way on to that list. Yes it did. Two out of three of them anyway. Truthfully, I would have never put up with having to contact a volunteer geocache reviewer and ask them to take a look at my geocache listings I submit for publish. This is why I submit very few Waymarks, it is just too fustrating to do the work and submit, then wait, then contact officers and ask them to take a look. We need auto publish after a time limit. Maybe Bryan can show us some love and help those of us left enjoy Waymarking. "Auto Publish" won't work. Just like the original Locationless caches, When the cache owner became inactive, any phony thing got posted because the person knew the owner would not delete it, even if it was a phony photo and location. What would work better is to put pressure on the responsible parties, the reviewing Officers. If an Officer goes for 6 months without reviewing at least one Waymark submitted to his group, he automatically gets demoted. This would result in all Officers in a Group keeping an eye on each other, and if one of them got demoted, fresh blood would have to be brought in and promoted. Exceptions could be made for those Categories with very few submissions. We as Waymark Creators also have to look at ourselves. Are we providing all the required and all the optional information that we can find? Or are we submitting minimum information to speed up our Waymark production, and ignoring optional information that is easily accessible. I have to review Waymarks submitted that has one sentence in the Quick Description, and a copy/paste of the same sentence in the Detailed Description, and no optional information at all. The optional "Parking location" is left blank, but he had to park to get the photo. The optional "phone number" is blank, but it's on the sign in the photo, almost too small to read. The optional "Web site" is also on the sign in the picture, but is way to small to read. Yes, he provided all required information to get the Waymark approved. But I'm not impressed. I'll pass on approving it and maybe one of my fellow officers will approve it. In 3 or 4 days, I'll check it again. If it hasn't been approved, I'll approve it, and send a note that he could have done better by easily providing more information. The next Waymark he submits in the same Category, looks just as sparse as the previous. Does anyone read notes in the email on approved Waymarks? Does anyone care about quality? Or is it all about the numbers. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 (edited) In a way, you are preaching to the choir. I am also appalled at the number of officers I've seen in categories that simply walked away from the hobby with no thought for those that were left behind. Yes, some of those could be folks who passed away (like GEO*Trailblazer 1). But when I'm ticked at waiting for weeks for a waymark to be reviewed, I usually do a little more digging, and find that the officers are still around doing geocaching or keeping their personal websites (or pages) current, or whatever. Common decency (guess it's not so common any more) would tell me that if I ever got bored with Waymarking, since it is not just a personal thing like fishing or bird watching or something that would only affect me if I quit it, then I ought to do something for the community, like ask that others take my place as an officer. As far as I'm concerned (harsh or no harsh) anyone that isn't dead but no longer helps out with Waymarking is just plain rude, for having walked away from a community hobby and leaving everyone else in the community in a lurch. Edited June 10, 2017 by MountainWoods Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 (edited) The three of you are correct. Waymarkers (creators and reviewers) must stop chasing the numbers. Quantity and quality do not mix. When you give-up on Waymarking, that's okay. Take a break or say farewell but please let the category know you're leaving. Edited June 10, 2017 by elyob Quote Link to comment
+PISA-caching Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 My humble opinion: From my point of view the majority of the officers do a great job. I'm officer in just one category (for several reasons that are of no interest in this discussion) and many times when I read that a new waymark has been posted I go to the waymark and another officer has already decided to approve or decline it. Also, the vast majority of the waymarks that I post are decided within a few days. In other words, I have the highest respect for the reviewers who spend so much time to review thousands of waymarks and I wouldn't think that I have the right to complain about them, unless I review roughly as many waymarks as they do. Besides, the problem is, that officers leave the hobby without telling anybody, right? Does it make sense to complain about that in the forums, where they certainly will not read? Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 But when I'm ticked at waiting for weeks for a waymark to be reviewed, I usually do a little more digging, and find that the officers are still around doing geocaching or keeping their personal websites (or pages) current, or whatever. There are some officers who are still around and need reminding that the Waymarking community could still benefit from their assistance. Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 (edited) Number 3 Waymarker in the World give yourself a pat on the back, you actually are a very good reviewer. I know that you love this site, and I love it too. I want it to work for me just as it does for you. Thank You for that, MP. Feels good to get a kind word like that now and again. Keith Edited June 11, 2017 by BK-Hunters Quote Link to comment
+Tuena Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Do we have any updated statistics? I can't recall or find any for last year. Also is it possible to list stats for declines? Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 I guess if you were to ask the Wayfrog he might be able to fill us in, provided new statistics are available. Keith Quote Link to comment
+Tuena Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 On 1/27/2019 at 5:18 PM, BK-Hunters said: I guess if you were to ask the Wayfrog he might be able to fill us in, provided new statistics are available. Keith Done. Quote Link to comment
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