TheBeanTeam:Pretty much. There was an interim transition where Groundspeak helped users set up Historical Marker categories for their particular location/area. After this phase the forum proposals seemed to pick up.
In regards to waymarking being and experiment. I think that it is still and experiment. Every category is an experiment to see if it will work. Past success is no guarantee that something similar will work. Of course building off of successful categories as an example will always improve chances of success but if some of the early categories came up for peer review now I can see them not going anywhere today.
Blogs and webcams are good examples of ideas that probably wouldn't get past peer review today since they seem to be more accepting of the virtual visit than actual location based visiting.
Past perfomance not indicitive of future returns.
Good info, but I'd suggest everyone has a different understanding of what makes a "successful" category. I pretty much avoid the McDonald's and Starbucks cats like the plague, but they've got numerous waymarks. I'm guessing more than a few folks prefer to ignore those. So.. although they've got big numbers, they've got a Rodney Dangerfield-thing goin' on ("I tell ya, I don't get no respect"), at least from me.
I started the Entertainment Awards category, and although there's less than a dozen posted, I still view it as a success. Why? A) It's off the ground and running, B) there's been waymarks posted I'm genuinely interested in seeing, and C) there's the potential for more. It'll never compete with the various retail cats as numbers go, but that's fine with me.
Just my two Euros. 
