My Pocket Queries Schedule Disappear

[+Nekloth]

Hello,

 

Since few weeks, I have some trouble with pocket queries... I have about 10 queries. I scheduled them, two per day, during 5 days.

 

... and sometimes (every morning gmt+1 ??? maybe every monday, I'm not sure), my scheduling disappear... All my pocket queries are there, BUT will never run because, no checkedboxes are checked anymore...

 

Do you have any idea ???

 

Thank you !

 

Nekloth

[+The J J Noodle Fan Club]

Scan this very long thread.

 

You have to manually re-enable them after every run.

 

It's a "temporary" measure.

 

It's already been "temporary" for too long!

 

Jon.

Edited September 12, 2005 by The J J Noodle Fan Club

[WH]

When you recieve your PQ's in your email, theres a link included that you have to click if you want your PQ's to run again the following week.

[+vnc]

I had the same problem and thank you for this answer (Happy forum !). Hoping that this measure is really "temporary" and another solution could be found.

[+Nekloth]

Thank you for your help !

 

Nek.

[+blindleader]

I hope the administrators are monitoring these threads. If all the points below have been made before, then they bear repeating in new threads till the message gets through.

 

It seems to me that one week of this would have weeded out all the PQs not being used.

 

I submit that nearly all the PQs not being rescheduled belong to active people like Nekloth, who didn't know about the new policy.

 

Putting a disclamer in the PQ email telling us that the PQ needs to be rescheduled is, at best, a lame CYA ploy. Nobody reads automated emails. I never once read the text of a PQ email till finding out about this in the forums.

 

Doing this for a week once every two or three months would accomplish everything that the current continuous de-scheduling does, while minimizing the consternation experienced by new members and the aggravation of the rest of us.

[+The Leprechauns]

Perhaps you missed the update from Groundspeak in another thread? And hopefully you've noticed the marked improvement in the performance of the pocket query generator. I sure have!

[+blindleader]

Perhaps you missed the update from Groundspeak in another thread?

Perhaps I did. With no link, I'm not going to waste time searching. Did it have anything at all to do with the problem?

 

Bottom line: This morning I stll had to visit my PQ page to reschedule my Monday PQs.

[robertlipe]

It's been said before that a small percentage of cachers read the forums.

 

Many users get their PQs delivered to alternate or fully automated addresses, so it' s not unexpected that those folks would have missed this.

 

PQs have been around now for about three years and I don't think there has ever been announcements in them prior to this, so it's understandable that users wouldn't look there - they just go straight to the attachments.

 

There is both an "click here for web site changes and announcements" button in the profile and an announcement section in the forum (see also: read by a minority...) so it's understandable that users would listen for announcements in those places instead of seeking out new places for announcements.

 

The recurring theme in these messages is that users agree the site could have done a better job communicating this - a message inside the PQ itself was a bad idea.

 

"My soda just went flat. And I have this rash..."

 

"You did read the inside of the soda can for the new health warning and that we've just cut the shelf life on this soda to six days, didn't you?"

 

"No, I've been drinking soda for a long time, there have never been words there, and there are other places in that purchase that convey information to me, such as the packaging, the display signs, etc. Why would I have looked inside the can? Besides, soda has always lasted longer than a week."

 

"Oh, we also mentioned it inside the Soda Drinkers Forum. (OK, we didn't actually do it in the "announcement" section,b ut we mentioned it. How out of the loop are you?"

 

[ image of drinker assaulting Soda Company Representative censored for violence ]

 

--- edited to note that announcement wasn't in announcement section

Edited September 12, 2005 by robertlipe

[+sbell111]

The original question has been answered to the poster's satisfaction. Do we really need to repeat all the angst that is in the other thread? Wasn't a link to it enough?

 

Get over it.

Edited September 13, 2005 by sbell111

[+Wacka]

Don't be lazy ad read your e-mails once in a while.

The link is there in every PQ e-mail.

[+robert]

Looks like it won't be that much longer that this question keeps coming up.