Another blessed thought.....
FiVermont:Are you saying one should not only post, but visit as well?
Some category managers encourage you to visit your own waymark once your posting is approved. Personally, I won't do that: they're two different activities, and I only did one thing. To me, it's an artificially inflated count.
Matt
Before you criticize the practice I think you should understand where it came from. In the early days of waymarking there were limited ways of searching and sorting waymarks. There were no filters as we have today.
Visiting a waymark was a tool that was used to enable you to search for waymarks that you hadn't completed. This evolved into the unfinished waymarks page link that enables you to view those with ease.
In the early discussions the idea was that yes, you had visited the location to record the waymark. When I log my "Waymark creation visit" I always log it on the date of my visit. Therefore the log is accurate. To say that the visit is artificially inflating a count is intimating that I am cheating somehow. Was I there or not? The idea that one cannot visit their own creation comes from the geocaching side of the site. It is considered "unethical" to visit ones own hide. The difference is in the language. One cannot "find" what one "hid". They knew where it was. One can "visit" to create a waymark....that is what I and many others do. Lets not confuse the two sites and bring in standards from one site that do not apply to the other one. I hope that my tone is not coming across as confrontational as that is not my intent. I just hope to clarify why the practice came about and to intimate that it is not done with evil or diabolic intent.
The GPS photo requirement is another practice that migrated from the old Locationless Caches that no longer applies (IMHO) through the evolution of waymarking.