It will be interesting to see how valuable the rating system works out to be. The people that like numbers get more votes since it appears that you only get a vote every X number of finds. I think that the people with huge number of votes will give votes to the great caches but may also give them to not so great caches just because they have votes to spare. Interesting, interesting. I do like the fact that it shows who likes the cache. This will be an interesting study in human behavior. I can't wait to see this board light up on this topic over the next couple of weeks (or not.) I can hear it now. "I can't believe that he/she gave his/her favorite points to THAT cache. MINE is so much better. Hmmmphhhh.. He/She is an idiot." LOL. Good times. Okra. From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laurie Elfrank Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:43 AM To: Geocaching Newsgroup Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Fwd: Christmas present from Groundspeak Ooh! New toys! Can't wait to try out the new maps and the rating system! -Laurie (Denmother) ________________________________ From: potbellystove@xxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Fwd: Christmas present from Groundspeak Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:51:49 -0600 To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx This was to stay private put someone else posted a preview of the new features so here is the link. Go live is today. Begin forwarded message: One of the reviewers posted some preview pictures of the planned Tuesday site upgrade http://firennice.squarespace.com/journal/2010/12/14/stats-maps-and-favorites.html Looks pretty cool! Glenn