BruceS:I don't think there is any feeling of owning the location which is quite evident by multiple waymarkers submitting the same location in different categories. However there is an ownership of the waymark submission itself. It is that ownership which helps to insure quality of the waymarks submitted.
I disagree in that, by "owning" a listing in a waymark category, you are claiming ownership of any and all content of that location in that category forever. That doesn't make sense since you are blocking any contributions by others about that location if you feel like it.
If now all waymarks are owned by the community then remove all stats, all grids, and all state colors as they have now been rendered meaningless. May as well remove the submitted by on the waymark page because that too is meaningless as that would be too "bourgeois" to actually claim ownership of "community property"
I disagree. You can certainly award people for their contributions in a category and for a listing, which would be more of a meritocracy - something I'd prefer over a dictatorship.