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Re: Public Toilets -- A new category idea

  •  11-05-2009, 5:22 AM

    Re: Public Toilets -- A new category idea

    ambrosia:
    This meets these guidelines:
    Informative: On the flipside, you may not exclaim "Wow!", but perhaps you or someone else might find the waymarks in this category useful in some way. These waymarks can aid in accomplishing an everyday task more efficiently,


    Does it really?  I mean seriously?

    Okay, this is the purported reason for this category - not finding unique and interesting places to visit, but to help people find public facilities.

    No one has yet explained or demonstrated how this category would "aid in accomplishing an everyday task more efficiently."

    The efficient way is to learn how to say, "Where is the restroom" in the local language!

    How are random waymarks going to be more efficient?  

    How many people are going to walk around with GPSr in hand with all the waymarks from this category loaded in just in case they're out and about and need to find a public restroom that they couldn't find more efficiently some other way?  That is neither practical nor realistic. 

    And, there could be one just around the corner and you would never know  -  unless someone happed to have waymarked it.  Yes, "comprehensive" may be my word, but without something approaching that, the category would be pretty useless.  Years?  Try decades.  Okay, you might find a small area, a city or two, with a waymarker so utterly dedicated to waymarking public restrooms that it might be useful there, but other than the category creator, I haven't seen any sign of anyone feeling passionate about doing this. 

    It is fine to have the attitude, "Not my cup of tea, but I'm not going to rain on your parade," except that there doesn't seem to be very many people in the parade!   That alone decreases its viability.  It is being said that we a category shouldn't get a nay vote just because we don't like it.  That is partly true, but what we could end up with is a category hardly any one really likes or wants, but which most people voted for because - well, they thought someone, or a few wanted it!  That just doesn't make sense to me.

    So, after people post a token toilet for an icon on the grid, and cross post a few that are waymarks because they are unique or interesting for some other reason in other categories, what is left?

    And, I mean no disrespect to our gentleman who proposed this category.  I enjoy your reasoned arguments, even if I remain unconvinced.  Your are an example of good public discourse!


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