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acordova started following the question "What's up with all the icons / items that aren't in the Missing tab?" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the question "What's up with all the icons / items that aren't in the Missing tab?" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "Identification of Street Team Elite members" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "List View / Icon View switch" in Gowalla.

acordova replied on November 07, 2009 01:25 to the problem "SMS? web is crashing my phone." in Gowalla:

What phone do you have? Are you using the new mobile site, or the regular gowalla.com?

acordova replied on November 07, 2009 00:27 to the problem "No Items" in Gowalla:

I think joescales was having this problem yesterday, only it was with the vault instead of the items. Not sure if it was fixed, but I couldn't recreate the issue fwiw.

A comment on the question "Nominate Spots for Deletion/Deactivation?" in Gowalla:

I had the same thought. Like I said, it's a tricky situation and I was hesitant to even bring it up. But imo, I see things like generic bus stops and mailboxes as spam, no matter how you play Gowalla.

It's hard to say what would happen if the spot got recreated, but I'd think it'd be like dealing with duplicates: deal with them as they come up. – acordova, on November 07, 2009 00:23

acordova asked a question in Gowalla on November 07, 2009 00:06:

Nominate Spots for Deletion/Deactivation?

So I'm sure this is going to step on a few toes, but I figured I'd ask.

Is there a process to nominate spots for deletion or deactivation? I don't want to name names, but in San Francisco I'm starting to see a lot of spots being created for things like mailboxes and every stop for certain bus lines. If there were something special about these places I could understand creating a spot for it, but creating a spot for every 38-Geary bus stop seems a bit excessive.

That being said, I personally would rather see spots get deactivated instead of deleted. This way, no other user can check into the spot, but the spot creator doesn't get punished (as in, making their checkin count go down) for creating the spot. This is already somewhat done for limited edition spots. Theoretically, though, this could be used to game Gowalla to get the spot-creation-related pins (even though I don't see a real reason someone would do that).

The gray area: What about chains? What would be the guidelines for a "delete-worthy" spot? You can probably tell, going down this road could get messy.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

acordova started following the question "Edit spot getting a No Method Error" in Gowalla.

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 21:38 to the problem "New website URL feature problem" in Gowalla:

Also, adding https (secure http) causes the parser to freak out: e.g. https://cakefinancial.com turns into www.https://cakefinancial.com.



Sent this one to Josh already, fwiw.

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 19:12 to the problem "Duplicate spot in Garland" in Gowalla:

Fixed

A comment on the problem "Delete icon is missing" in Gowalla:

Just checked in Firefox and Safari on Windows, and it's still not appearing. Also, IE 8 totally failed on gowalla.com, but that's probably not your fault :P – acordova, on November 05, 2009 19:09

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 07:35 to the problem "Delete icon is missing" in Gowalla:

I should mention that this appears in Safari 4.0.3, but there is no icon at all in Firefox 3. Looking at the HTML, though, there does seem to be an image tag there, so I think the image is simply missing on the server.

A comment on the problem "Delete icon is missing" in Gowalla:

Yeah, I see that too in Firefox, Irene. Looking at their HTML, there is definitely an image there, so I think the image is simply missing on their server. – acordova, on November 05, 2009 07:34

A comment on the problem "Delete icon is missing" in Gowalla:

http://gowalla.com/images/icons/delet...

Does that load for you? It gives me a bunch of Ruby errors. – acordova, on November 05, 2009 02:49

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 00:47 to the question "Featured Spot Requests" in Gowalla:

Pier 39 in San Francisco: http://gowalla.com/spots/10353 or
Pier 39 Sea Lion Spot: http://gowalla.com/spots/9421
+1 for Ghirardelli Square (Gina's spot)
The Jesus Loves You Guy!: http://gowalla.com/spots/38768 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellacut...)

acordova marked one of Irene's replies in Gowalla as useful. Irene replied to the problem "Hello Cheater, paging Miss Cheater.".

acordova reported a problem in Gowalla on November 05, 2009 00:30:

Delete icon is missing

It looks like the delete icon is either missing or linked incorrectly


Anyone else seeing this?

acordova started following the idea "Push based on distance from yourself." in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "Remove items from Vault" in Gowalla.