[GeoStL] Re: Curious and I am sure controversial (REVISITED)
- From: "Eric East" <christianherper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:42:35 -0600
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Dan,
your topic can't be controversial because I didn't start it! LOL
Seriously though, I too liked the stats page & i'm not asshamed to admit
that I tried to keep myself in the top 50 & I was secretly competing against
a few of you. I'll bet a lot of people did this, but just wont admit it. :-)
I understand it's a LOT of work to keep up with fixing the stats page, but I
hope someone can figure out an alternate wat of doing it.
Regarding MOGA, I have not made one yet (or many picnics) because they
always ends up being on weekends that I have to work.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Shilt" <webscouter@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Curious and I am sure controversial (REVISITED)
> -
> The other site that displays the stats for cachers with 200 or more finds
> does so by getting a pocket query of selected caches then culling the data
> from that pocket query. That way they are not scraping the GC site.
> I would imagine that there is a cache or two in St Louis that most if not
> allthe SLAGA members have found that could be used as a mule for the data
> that you want.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Dan Henke wrote: - I had sent this to Mike privately but as we are
> throwing
> out ideas I will throw this out. As pointed out by several people there
> are
> sites that actually have the data (member stats) for cachers with 200 or
> morefinds. Is there a way to lift out the information dealing only with a
> certain list of users (SLAGA members) and then redisplay it in a form of
> somekind to display the stats....as I pointed out to Mike the stats are
> gathered by others from GC.com and these people obviously fix their sites
> when they "break" after a change at GC.com. So they are dealing with the
> headaches and our script would only break if they changed their gathering
> site radically. Just a thought Dan Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>[1]
> wrote: - We can copy the code for the user stats and create a page that
> listsall the users. This would be legal but it would be a page full of
> stat
> boxes like on GC.COM. We couldn't sort it unless someone did it manually.
> Screen Scraping it won't work, at least I don't think so, because it is
> dynamic.... Just one thought.. Mike Tired of Spam?? Here's your solution..
> See: http://www.spamarrest.com/affl?4001050[2] ----- Original
> Message -----
> From: "GC-RGS" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:16 PM Subject:
> [GeoStL]
> Re: Curious and I am sure controversial (REVISITED) If anyone has any
> ideas
> to get around this, we're all ears. Rich ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Dan Henke" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:45 PM Subject: [GeoStL]
> Re:
> Curious and I am sure controversial (REVISITED) - When I posted this query
> I
> figured it would start a conversation and possibly get a few negative as
> wellas positive comments but I did not realize I would get 3 comments
> about
> the original contents and then a huge offshoot on MOGA. So I guess I will
> askthe question again: Is the "member stats" portion of the SLAGA home
> page
> adead issue? One of the reasons I signed up and paid my dues was to get
> this
> feature which I did for ONE day and then it quit working and finally was
> removed from the webpage. A simple yes or no answer would suffice though
> it
> would be nice to know why. I know there are a couple of other sites that
> listcachers with 200 or more caches and I guess that is ok but I enjoyed
> seeing where I stood in the local caching community and one of my goals
> was
> to keep myself in the top 20 or 30 cachers from the SLAGA area....that is
> very difficult when you are seeing cachers from all over the country. I
> guessthere is not a big interest on the part of SLAGA members though I do
> remember several posts asking what had happened so maybe I am just beating
> a
> dead horse. As far as the milestones page is concerned I enjoy seeing what
> milestones people have achieved though because of the negative criticism
> froma few in the newsgroup there is no big round of congratulations
> anymore.
> But the milestones don't show me what I want to see and THAT is my
> complaint.Dan (Thunder) Who is causing trouble again :-P Brad Myers
> wrote: -
> http://grand_high_pobah.home.comcast.net/AllFinds.html[3] I know it isn't
> thestats that we use to have, but you can look and see how you compare
> with
> all the cachers that have over 200 finds. -----Original Message----- From:
> geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[4]
> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[5]] On Behalf Of Dan Henke Sent:
> Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:26 AM To: geocaching Subject: [GeoStL] Curious
> andI am sure controversial - Should I assume that since they have not come
> back that the "Member Stats" feature of the SLAGA web page is dead and not
> coming back? I used that feature a LOT not to compare myself to other
> cachersbut to see how people were doing and who was cahing etc ...it was
> niceto see how many each of my friends had and how they did compare to
> mine...not in a jealous or envious way but just out of curiousity. And the
> talk I have seen about people not caring about stats is a bunch of
> bull...I
> would say that most cachers DO care about stats otherwise why do they log
> their finds? Also why do we congratulate someone on reaching X number of
> finds or throw a party when Bruce hit 1000, 2000 and 5000. I know there
> are
> exceptions but in general I would say they want and like them I care about
> mine and celebrate at each 100 caches that I find...maybe to people who
> have
> found over 1000 or 2000 it may not mean much but my 600+ caches are well
> remembered and hard fought and by golly I am PROUD of the fact I have
> stuck
> with it so long and the number I have done reminds me of how hard and long
> a
> trip it has been. I also understand that it is a LOT of work and hassle
> for
> Paul to maintain and if he just does not want to maintain the feature then
> say so ...but considering it was one of those features advertised with the
> paid membership I would have thought that at least the first year it would
> bekept. I know this will probably open another can of worms ....it seems I
> amgood at that but hey I would like to know as it seems to have just
> fallen
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