GCA Archiving - A proposal and debate.
Posted: 06 June 07 12:10 pm
A proposal for debate in the senate without notice.
With all the hoohaa going on with the two new cache police members and the archiving of caches from GCA it opens a question to the senate.
GCA is no rules.
That does mean that abandoned or muggled and not maintained caches will remain in the system for ever.
Should we, as a community, lead by our senate, consider an automated method for dealing with caches that should, for all intents and purposes, be archived?
eg.
1 month after a cache is marked as temporarily unavailable, an email is sent to the owner requesting action.
2 months after, a reminder.
3 months after, the cache is automatically archived by the system.
The beauty of GCA is that the owner can at any time, unarchive the cache without permission or intervention by an "appropriate authority".
Another eg.
Same scenario as above, but change temporarily unavailable with SBA.
The first scenario is for active members of the community.
The second would be for caches where the community member may have moved on and has not set the cache to temporarily unavailable.
This is a change in direction for GCA as it would no longer be strictly no rules, but would allow the system to help keep itself clean while still allowing owners to make changes to their cache as needed.
As it's a change in direction, the senate should provide the guidance and governance on these types of questions.
Contributions from people who actively hide / seek caches at GCA will have louder voices in this debate.
Please commence the debate.
With all the hoohaa going on with the two new cache police members and the archiving of caches from GCA it opens a question to the senate.
GCA is no rules.
That does mean that abandoned or muggled and not maintained caches will remain in the system for ever.
Should we, as a community, lead by our senate, consider an automated method for dealing with caches that should, for all intents and purposes, be archived?
eg.
1 month after a cache is marked as temporarily unavailable, an email is sent to the owner requesting action.
2 months after, a reminder.
3 months after, the cache is automatically archived by the system.
The beauty of GCA is that the owner can at any time, unarchive the cache without permission or intervention by an "appropriate authority".
Another eg.
Same scenario as above, but change temporarily unavailable with SBA.
The first scenario is for active members of the community.
The second would be for caches where the community member may have moved on and has not set the cache to temporarily unavailable.
This is a change in direction for GCA as it would no longer be strictly no rules, but would allow the system to help keep itself clean while still allowing owners to make changes to their cache as needed.
As it's a change in direction, the senate should provide the guidance and governance on these types of questions.
Contributions from people who actively hide / seek caches at GCA will have louder voices in this debate.
Please commence the debate.