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Waymark owner control over logs

Last post 01-26-2007, 8:45 AM by opinionate. 1 replies.
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  •  01-26-2007, 8:04 AM 2808

    Waymark owner control over logs

    I just read where the group leader and designated officers now have control over the logs in their catetory and the waymark owner (founder) will no longer have control over visit logs.
    The original poster will continue to have the ability to make changes to his or her waymark, however the "visit" logs will no longer be under his or her control. We feel that since Groups determine the visit requirements for waymarks in their category they should be the ones to monitor the logs. In the future we will have a flagging system for notifying the Group of inappropriate logs.
    This won't work for Best Kept Secrets or other categories where the waymark owner specifies the logging requirements for the waymark. Particularly when the waymark owner (founder) provides a question that needs to be answered as proof that the waymark was visited. I and my officers may have no idea what the correct answer is. Expecting the group managers to keep track of the answers for all the waymarks in the category is unreasonable. The waymark owner (founder) should be responsible for the visit logs to their waymark. Even when the requirements for a visit are stated by the category managers and can't be changed by the waymark owner (founder), the waymark owner (founder) should have primary responsiblity for ensuring the visit requirements are met and the group managers should only be involved when there is a dispute. (If we were to use the geocaching analogy - waymarking is not geocaching so it may not apply - this is like asking the volunteer reviewers to monitor "found it" logs on everyone's cache)
  •  01-26-2007, 8:45 AM 2810 in reply to 2808

    Re: Waymark owner control over logs

    There has been a change in plans with regard to posters having control over the logs in their waymarks. I explained this in a thread here.

    If the poster of a waymark finds an inappropriate log on one of his waymarks he can flag it just as any other user would. However, flagging a log by the waymark poster will effectively archive the log immediately. This flag will still be sent to the "needs maintenence" queue for final approval by the group officers. If the group officer approves the flag or takes no action, the log will remain archived.

    Until this is set up the log archiving permissions will remain as they are.
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