OK, my US$/CAN$.02,
I'm a skeptic on the 'orphan' waymark. I view Waymarking.com as a scavenger hunt with defined categories that you try to list. On scavenger hunts in college (Greek Week fraternity competitions), we had a list of something like fifty things to get that matched an item on the list, for example, a shirt with a professional football team logo on it. A shirt with the Cleveland Browns -- er scheme (bad example - what's the logo?) or New England Patriots logo on it would qualify. A shirt with the Ohio State Buckeyes would not. It doesn't matter that the team is that person's favorite college team - it didn't fit a category on the list - too bad. On waymarking.com, the list is now over 900. Are there some great potential waymarks out there that still don't fit a category? Sure! I have a few. Am I losing sleep or miffed that I can't list them? Well, a little, but that's part of the game. I wish some categories were added, and I just posted a suggestion in the forum. I have a beautiful stone building that doesn't fit the cobblestone building category. That's the way it goes. I hope that a stone building category gets created some day, so that I can list it.
There is potential for waymarks on the site to be really useful resources. I'd like effort to go to better downloading options and sorting waymarks within categories by variables. That might get other people interested in waymarking. Otherwise, categories over a few hundred are cumbersome to go through if you are interested in one specific thing, like an architect in a building category.
The points - I see them like Drew Carey awarding points on "Who's Line is it Anyway?" - they don't mean very much except maybe to the points to me. I would like some kind of awarding of points to number of 'divisions' (supercategories) and to categories. I'm less concerned about the bingos - I look more at clusters. Visits should be some fraction of posting - I was thinking about half myself. I am also concerned about my responsibility to review and delete visits if people are going to be 'competitive,' but not if the numbers are for myself.
These are some of my reactions off the top of my head.