caughtatwork wrote: ↑26 April 21 11:04 am
This is a general comment but the sentiment has been for a long, long time "this is someone else's problem".
We need money to run the site (we hope "someone" will stump up the funds).
We need more geocaches (we hope "someone" will produce marketing materials or campaigns).
We want people to stop taking movable caches to events (we hope "someone" will step in a stop that happening).
We want the site easier to navigate (we hope "someone" will read our mind and make changes).
We want decisions made about the direction of the site site (we hope "someone" will do this for us).
In simple terms, there is no "someone". That "someone" is you or no-one. I don't own the site. I don't promote the site. I don't do surveys. I don't (any more) ask what you want done.
Shifting the accountability for an improvement or change on to "someone' else means it doesn't get done.
At the end of the day, complaining about something you are not willing to get involved in to solve it like hitting your head against a brick wall. It hurts until you stop.
So development of code is mine. Running the shop is mine. Anything else if on you, your mates, you teams, you clan, you community to do.
Hi
I have held off replying to this thread for a few days as I was pretty disappointed in the posts and wanted not to reply in an angry frame of mind.
Firstly, I want to say I am not having a complaint about your work CaughtatWork. The amount of work you have put into the site is huge and you deserve to be congratulated on the work you have done - so thank you and well done CaughtatWork, it is appreciated!
I understand your position CaughtatWork, but since the disbanding of the senate it seems there is a distinct lack of community involvement on the GCA website and to be completely honest it feels slightly autocratic, I suppose you are the only person that we can take up the site with. There is no other person / people. Why the senate was disbanded I dont want to know, and dont really want to go into. That's the past. I want the site to prosper in the future, no point bringing up the past.
There is a group of people in Tasmania that are all willing to help and pitch in, but it's hard when we are distributed and even then we dont know what will be acceptable to the site and what will not be. You can see from the recent game that Tasmanian cachers had 7 out of the top 10 positions and positions 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 - that's 15 out of the top 20. 2ystasssies - one of the highest finders (& hiders) was 21st as well- so 16 out of 21! So we are the most active GCA state in Australia at the moment.
My suggestion of a survey was to gather ideas and suggestions to make things better. This would be a starting point for actually doing something
Is it possible to promote the survey on the site so we get the most responses possible?
Would the developers like to sign off on the questions before it goes out? I think this would be a good idea.
If the community comes up with an idea that they would like implemented on the site, that is within reason is this possible to get it done? Say if they came up with a new cache type as an example.
For those people that are craving a smiley, we could open up a locationless, which requires a password which is given to you at the end of the survey. That could help? Maybe even 100 Dragonzone points for logging that locationless?
I am happy to write the survey, collate the responses and write up a report, and provide the raw data as support, if that is acceptable.
Budgie