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joescales replied on December 18, 2009 06:28 to the problem "Merge please (42172 & 226366)" in Gowalla:

Your wish is our command.

A comment on the question "New category suggestions" in Gowalla:

I can see why Post Office is under government. (Even though the USPS is a private agency I think folks still think of it with City Hall/CourtHouse/FireStationEtc) Mebbe it could be cross posted? I only suggest this as I was able to intuitively (incorrectly?) find it where it is now. – joescales, on December 10, 2009 16:36

A comment on the problem "Designing with Web Standards Book - Wrong drop location" in Gowalla:

Mine was a bonus item too. – joescales, on December 09, 2009 22:12

joescales replied on December 09, 2009 16:45 to the problem "Designing with Web Standards Book - Wrong drop location" in Gowalla:

I also received one here this morning. Thought you must have sprinkled more out after the close of the event.

http://gowalla.com/spots/108367

joescales made a comment on "General problems creating spots", but it was removed. see the change log

A comment on the question "General problems creating spots" in Gowalla:

Well, I think it would be good if Gowalla would publish an "etiquette" page. As it currently stands there really isn't a set of guidelines for creating spots. As an example, if I were on Burlingame Ave in San Mateo I "could" see that every business on the street "could" have a spot. Now, who am I to say if they "should" have a spot? I know I go about making spots from a geocaching background. I started to make spots that were unique or creative or special. However, once I saw the proliferation of Starbucks sites I figured, well I'm at a Starbucks that doesn't have a spot, might as well make one. Everybody comes to the game from a different perspective. I imagine that some players might think they are "helping" by making a spot for every business on a street. Myself?... I don't play that way and in the end, without some guidelines, (or a limit of how many placed you can make in a certain time period/area) I imagine people will naturally saturate popular area.

.... and maybe some folks might not want to be known for creating spots one after another in an area... and maybe they do. C'est la vie.

KJB ... "random and not overly prolific spot creator" – joescales, on December 09, 2009 01:00

joescales replied on December 04, 2009 16:12 to the idea "Trip Requests" in Gowalla:

The Getsatifaction team is aware of it. They seem to be working on it. http://getsatisfaction.com/getsatisfa...

A comment on the problem "Multiple Email Notices this morning" in Get Satisfaction:

Eric, The message(s) I'm getting were from last night. The messages say from 3/4 hours ago. – joescales, on December 04, 2009 16:11

joescales reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on December 04, 2009 14:09:

Multiple Email Notices this morning

Getting multiple emails from the Gowalla group this morning. I'm turning off email notices for a bit. Let me know if you need specific info on the emails.

joescales replied on November 21, 2009 18:50 to the question "Creativity vs. Bland?" in Gowalla:

Yep... I guess I play too many puzzles. I've appended "Fry's Electronics" to the name. Hoping this will help the duplicate spots. C'est la vie! Thanks for all the great replies. :)

joescales asked a question in Gowalla on November 20, 2009 23:19:

Creativity vs. Bland?

So, I have a question for the Gowallites. When we first started creating places I opted to give "creative" names to spots rather than go for the "simply obvious." Case in point, I decided to label the Fry's Electronics store "Geek Stuff" rather than "Fry's Electronics." I was thinking it added a little flair to the game rather than a "yellow pages" feel to checking in. The problem is that people keep adding "Fry's Electronics" as a new spot. I can see both points of view but I was curious what YOU thought.

Thoughts?

joescales replied on November 12, 2009 22:36 to the idea "Trip Requests" in Gowalla:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/histo...

I wonder if we could figure out where the trailer was?

joescales replied on November 02, 2009 23:24 to the question "MiSSing Crush It! item" in Gowalla:

Actually, I was worried this request got lost in the shuffle. I was able to find one this weekend. Irene, thanks for the generous offer. I hope you had a great trip in SoCal.

joescales replied on October 30, 2009 17:11 to the question "MiSSing Crush It! item" in Gowalla:

Jonathan,

I was curious ... I haven't seen this icon show up for me.

This was your response from a couple of days ago.

Oh, we're sad, too! Everyone was supposed to get it, yes, and while we had a bit of a bug, we thought we had squashed it. We'll get you hooked up, Joe (and anyone else out there who can prove a check-in at Crush It but didn't get a book

joescales asked a question in Gowalla on October 26, 2009 14:54:

MiSSing Crush It! item

"Crush It" book item. We had a great time at the Gary Vee event and picked up the Crush It! spot while also running into other Gollallites (Geoff Brown, Rob Bracket, Dave Bedingfield) but I noticed I didn't receive my Crush It Book item. Was this a bug .. was everybody that checked in supposed to get the item?

joescales asked a question in Gowalla on October 13, 2009 00:38:

Where would you stick this?

How would you categorize a "farm?" Hey, it's pumpkin patch season. I'm looking for advice from my fellow gowallites. What category would you pick for a farm?

joescales reported a problem in Gowalla on October 04, 2009 01:53:

Awww... Can't I have the nifty icon on my spot?

My eagle-eyed Gowalla Buddy (acordova) noticed that Team Gowalla made a spot last week at the same location I made a spot six months ago in March. (Sure, I was trying to make the name a bit creative ..)

Awwww... can't I have a pretty icon too? Shouldn't we "merged" this two spots?

Lol... who is this "Team Gowalla" and shouldn't we give them a list of legacy sites?

Best,

joescales...

http://gowalla.com/spots/10344
http://gowalla.com/spots/28324

joescales replied on October 02, 2009 15:51 to the praise "Kudos for the email notices" in Gowalla:

Who knows, they may do that in the future. (psst.. anikewl, you "can" turn them completely off in your settings area on the site.) That might help with the Inbox Zero initiative. ;)

joescales gave praise in Gowalla on October 02, 2009 15:15:

Kudos for the email notices

Kudos.... I really like the new email notices. It helps remind me of the sites I need to "tidy" up.

joescales reported a problem in Gowalla on October 01, 2009 17:06:

Please delete this spot: http://gowalla.com/spots/33471

Please Delete this duplicate:

http://gowalla.com/spots/33471

I was a bit over zealous and didn't see the spot that was already there.
(Do "we" want duplicate requests in NEW postings or should we have a dedicated thread for them?)

KJB