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MikeSobe marked one of Dennis Crowley's replies in foursquare as useful. Dennis Crowley replied to the idea "Why exactly turn it off during the workweek?".

MikeSobe replied on November 12, 2009 15:57 to the idea "See common venues on friend requests." in foursquare:

Ya, sounds good. I get the impression that you guys are working on a decent overhaul of the website, I trust that wherever you decide will work out well.

MikeSobe marked one of Richard Lillis' replies in foursquare as useful. Richard Lillis replied to the idea "Vote down/out non-tips? Add "reviews"? Something must be done.". MikeSobe and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

MikeSobe shared an idea in foursquare on November 12, 2009 14:36:

See common venues on friend requests.

I think it would be useful to see a list of places that both you and the person who is friending you have checked into. That way if you don't know the person you can see, oh we both visit this bar a bunch or we share a common love for sushi etc...

MikeSobe replied on November 11, 2009 14:44 to the idea "Badge Suggestion: Adding Tips and doing To-Dos" in foursquare:

I had the same thought the other day. If you add a tip and 10, 20 (some number) or people say 'I've Done This' you should get a badge. If 10, 15 (some number) of people add it as a 'To Do' you should get a badge. Then it would also be cool if a total of 100 people have done things that you've suggested you get a badge as well.

I believe the tips are one of the most under utilized parts of foursquare and should be incentivized through badges. By creating badges around how many people have done or would like to do your suggestion would hopefully cut down on people spamming tips everywhere.

A digg like voting system would also be nice for the tips. The high rated the tip is the closer to the top it is displayed.

MikeSobe replied on November 10, 2009 17:09 to the problem "Bug in becoming mayor or in display of # of checkins for mayor" in foursquare:

It might be useful to show how many times total you've checked into a place and how many times in the last 60 days on the little 'We've got you at ...' response you get when you check in.

Also I'm not sure how it's currently set up but it would be a lot less confusing if it shows how many times the Mayor has been there in the past 60 days, not total.

MikeSobe replied on October 29, 2009 18:27 to the question "Any chance of a cleanup effort for Cleveland venues?" in foursquare:

Hey John,

What area did you notice a bunch of dupes? I was trying to clean up / add venues to Cleveland as well.

MikeSobe replied on October 22, 2009 16:10 to the idea "Don't use the city name as a default if you're outside the city" in foursquare:

This is an interesting point. I've been adding some venues for Cleveland which has a downtown but definitely has a more sprawled social scene than other places. I have left the city has Cleveland even though these places are 15-20 minutes away from downtown. I wasn't sure if I should be changing the city to the local city/town or since they are all under the Cleveland umbrella if I should keep it as Cleveland. I do put the correct zip code though.

MikeSobe replied on October 21, 2009 18:19 to the question "No Smart Phone = No Mayorship?" in foursquare:

No, my friend checks in solely via SMS and he is the mayor of a view venues. Remember that only 1 check-in per day counts towards mayorship.

MikeSobe started following the idea "Make Mayor be X+1 checkins of current Mayor" in foursquare.

MikeSobe marked one of naveen's replies in foursquare as useful. naveen replied to the problem "The iPhone app doesn't accept "+" symbols in email addresses".

MikeSobe started following the problem "Distorted Pictures" in foursquare.

MikeSobe replied on October 09, 2009 13:30 to the question "Loyal customer or Boring Player?" in foursquare:

Personally I think it's nice to have a few local spots you go to often. If it's a random Tuesday night and you want to grab a relaxing drink with a friend it's nice when you know the bartenders and know that the place you are going to has the exact atmosphere/people that you are looking for.

At the same time if all you ever do is go to the same 15 places over and over then it kind of defeats the purpose of foursquare. I think that giving 5 points for a new venue is a good way to incentivize (making up words) trying out new venues.

MikeSobe marked one of harryh's replies in foursquare as useful. harryh replied to the problem "old homepage shows when logged in, instead of of new one".

MikeSobe replied on September 30, 2009 13:36 to the problem "Resolving Location errors/mispellings/additions" in foursquare:

What venues were misspelled? I'll fix them when i get home from work.

MikeSobe marked one of PDelahanty's replies in foursquare as useful. PDelahanty replied to the idea "Must constantly sign in to site".

MikeSobe started following the idea "Must constantly sign in to site" in foursquare.

MikeSobe started following the idea "Venue statistics" in foursquare.

MikeSobe marked one of PDelahanty's replies in foursquare as useful. PDelahanty replied to the question "Checking in before 4pm - what's the deal?".

Bryan's reply to "Is it possible to "checkout"?" was just promoted to the most useful! MikeSobe and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Impressed: @Foursquare on Twitter proactively reached out and answered my question. I'm looking forward to this functionality soon!