GCVote
I’m wondering if anyone is using the site www.GCVote.com? According to GCVote, the site “enables you to rate the quality of caches”.
It seems like a good idea, they have some 16,000 users, a small amount in the big scope og the geocaching world. But it may encourage people to place caches better than 35mm film containers.
Anyone using this? Feedback?
I have seen one like this before, ratemycache I think and it was not used very much as most cachers don’t spend much time logging let alone going to another site to rate a cache you will never find again. I got an email saying that the other site is being shut down. I put it on one of my caches and it never got rated as far as I know. It is worth a try. How about http://www.handicaching.com/rate.php
In some cases/circumstances, there is nothing wrong with a film canister.
Hey, agreed, nothing wrong with film containers, and I don’t mind an easy urban score. But I like the idea of encouraging creative caches.
But you’re right Rev, I think for this to work, it would have to work within the geocaching.com framework.
Totally agree, if it’s not on geocaching.com the caches won’t be voted on enough to be meaningful.
I wouldn’t want to see it in a format that would make your average film canister cache look necessarily bad… While there are caches out there that are a bad idea, I think most of them are either ok/good, very good or WOW! A rating / voting system should reflect this.
Isn’t this what Favorites are meant to do?
I think the favorites where implemented the way they were is to only showcase the positive and avoid the negative. Groundspeak loves to avoid the negative. This way a cache is either OK or Great, no bad.
I went back to the site and you’re right, they can be ranked on the negative end of the scale. I agree with the others that it would work only if integrated into GC, the steps given in the article are understandable ny us geeks by not that accessible for the regular folk. There indeed a few caches around here that I would have no issues with ranking “fairly poor”, especually if, like me, I don;t go for the numbers but for the quality caches. I don’t imagine GCVote has enough usage to give an accurate picture of that at the moment.
Actually, whats cool about it is that you can install a javascript (easy to install) that actually imbeds the rating system right onto the website. When you log your cache, you’ll see a rating bar right next to the difficulty.
Biggest downfall though is you have to message him through geocaching.com for a password. Seems like a bit of work to get it working.