+pack_78 Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 (edited) I live in California and my parents back in Illinois just started geocaching recently. Although we keep up to date about our latest finds via phone, I think it would be great to have Geocaching.com send me notifications about Mom & Dad's latest adventures! To do this, the site could offer the ability to "watch this player", just as you can currently watch caches, travel bugs, etc. Whenever that player made a log entry, you would receive an email notification with that entry. To make it legit, when you add a player to your watchlist, the site would send an email to that player to let them know that you have added them to your watchlist. The "watch this player" link could live on a player's profile page, just as a "watch this cache" link currently lives on a cache's page. The feature would really engender a family and friends aspect to Geocaching and would be a fantastic addition. Thoughts? Edited May 23, 2004 by pack_78 Link to comment
+GeoSharks Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 I know it's not emailed to you, but you could bookmark their finds page. Doesn't show bug activity, just finds. Like this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?ul=pack_78 Link to comment
+Hemlock Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 (edited) Good idea. Edited May 23, 2004 by Hemlock Link to comment
+pack_78 Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Ahh, yep, thanks for the link! I performed a search before making my post, but came up empty on that, which surprised me since it seemed like such an obvious feature to have. It's been 5 months since the idea was broached in the thread you linked to, and it appears that it had been suggested even prior to that at as well. Wonder if this will ever be implemented ... Link to comment
+Farben Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 And here I was going to suggest the same thing Link to comment
Jeremy Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Wonder if this will ever be implemented ... I know. Sheesh. Jeremy seems to hardly implement anything. Link to comment
+Laserman Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 Wonder if this will ever be implemented ... I know. Sheesh. Jeremy seems to hardly implement anything. Yeah what a slacker, I hear he's been off playing on some farm, or serving the farmer, then there was something about getting everyone a jeep, or something like that, I dunno. Link to comment
+HoPri Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 He is such a lazy guy, isn't he? I bet he's playing with his computers all the time, instead of geocaching... He should take this great web site as an example for himself. There, the web masters rock. Lots of traffic, lots of requests by users, lots of changes, and yet, everything runs quite smoothly. Wonder how THEY do it... Thanks, really appreciated. HoPri Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 To make it legit, when you add a player to your watchlist, the site would send an email to that player to let them know that you have added them to your watchlist. Let's adjust that just slightly: To make it legit, the potential watched player must opt-IN by checking a box in their profile. If they choose to do so and are tagged for watching, when you add a player to your watchlist, the site would send an email to that player to let them know that you have added them to your watchlist. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 The friends concept works this way. User A sends a friend request. Will you be my friend? User B receives friends request. Has the option to ignore, or say yes or no User B says yes. A mutual friendship has occured. User A or B can now watch each other. Either side can sever the friendship at any time. Friends show up in the user's profile. If no friends, it says "This user has no friends" Just kidding on the last bit, but when I was playing with the friendship implementation I had it say that. Link to comment
+GentleWhisper Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 (edited) I like the friends concept... very cool. Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. Edited June 16, 2004 by GentleWhisper Link to comment
+zenone Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 I think the "Friends" method would be great. I, too, have family and friends that would like to stay up-to-date on eachother's finds. --steve Link to comment
+Jimmybojangles Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 I like the whole Idea about watchin other cachers, I have another question about watchlists. Is there any way or will there ever be a way to see Who is watchin you specific cache. If someone has one of your caches on their watch list I would like to know whos watchin it, rather than just seeing "3 users watchin this account". Link to comment
dampeoples Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 That sounds kind of cool, I recently made a Geocaching friend in California, and being on the East Coast, it's not always convienent to speak to him Link to comment
+garri Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 I like the friends concept... very cool. Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. It is easy to solve. You can receive these requests in the weekly cache notificaion Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 Friends show up in the user's profile. If no friends, it says "This user has no friends" Just kidding on the last bit, but when I was playing with the friendship implementation I had it say that. I especially like this part. Link to comment
+Cache Viking Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 when I first read the title of this thread my first though was ... "this could get real ugly" ... with stalking and such. Then I read on and see Jeremy's ideas already in motion and see there appears to be a nice workable solution for those that want it. Thanks Jeremy. Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. To extend Jeremy's terminology, I suppose your profile would say "I don't want any friends". Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. To extend Jeremy's terminology, I suppose your profile would say "I don't want any friends". It could also mean I don't want to be unknowingly stalked. Why must an opt out decision be equated to a decision of not having or wanting any friends? I dislike conditional friendships. If the condition to you being my friend means I have to let you watch me; then so long friend. If this feature were to be implemented, I would want the option to opt out. Let it be my decision to be watched or not by my personal contact list and not by some anonymous uncontrollable means. Link to comment
+Seamus Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 If this feature were to be implemented, I would want the option to opt out. Let it be my decision to be watched or not by my personal contact list and not by some anonymous uncontrollable means. Good point. Only change I'd make is that I would want it to be on an opt in basis. This isn't the sort of thing that you would want to implement by default. Link to comment
+shunra Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 (edited) Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. To extend Jeremy's terminology, I suppose your profile would say "I don't want any friends". It could also mean I don't want to be unknowingly stalked. Why must an opt out decision be equated to a decision of not having or wanting any friends? I dislike conditional friendships. If the condition to you being my friend means I have to let you watch me; then so long friend. If this feature were to be implemented, I would want the option to opt out. Let it be my decision to be watched or not by my personal contact list and not by some anonymous uncontrollable means. Sheesh, next thing we'll ask Jeremy to install a chat program. Are there no more urgent features that need to be implemented? Why overburden the site with "features" that everyone can either do manually or automatically on their own? I have nothing to hide (well, except for caches ), but if someone wants information about me, let them go and get it actively, not passively. It's all out there, on my Recent Finds page. Someone already said it before: if you want to watch someone, bookmark their Finds list. You can even have your own browser send you a message when the data on that page changes. Edited to add: the reason I quoted TL in the first place was to say that I entirely agree. I just forgot to say it Edited July 30, 2004 by Shunra Link to comment
+TEAM 360 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Perhaps there should be an option to block all friend requests... some members could get flooded. To extend Jeremy's terminology, I suppose your profile would say "I don't want any friends". It could also mean I don't want to be unknowingly stalked. Why must an opt out decision be equated to a decision of not having or wanting any friends? I dislike conditional friendships. If the condition to you being my friend means I have to let you watch me; then so long friend. If this feature were to be implemented, I would want the option to opt out. Let it be my decision to be watched or not by my personal contact list and not by some anonymous uncontrollable means. "If"...and ONLY "if" it was agreed to by BOTH parties, I would say, "cool idea".... Otherwise, forget it...too much potential for unwanted tracking. Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 The friends concept works this way. User A sends a friend request. Will you be my friend? User B receives friends request. Has the option to ignore, or say yes or no User B says yes. A mutual friendship has occured. User A or B can now watch each other. Either side can sever the friendship at any time. Friends show up in the user's profile. If no friends, it says "This user has no friends" Just kidding on the last bit, but when I was playing with the friendship implementation I had it say that. For those of you who reply without reading the past posts... Link to comment
+Jared_and_Tanis Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I like this idea - I'm waiting for it! Link to comment
+solid-rock-seekers Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I like this idea with the implementation that Jeremy described! This allows "friends" to easily keep "up to date" on another cacher's logs, yet also addresses privacy concerns by requiring friends to be "opt-in." --ken Link to comment
+RuffRidr Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I think Jeremy's implementation takes care of all of the concerns that have arisen in this discussion. I'm glad to see innovative new features show up on this website. Keep up the good work Jeremy. --RuffRidr Link to comment
thorin Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I like this idea with the implementation that Jeremy described! This allows "friends" to easily keep "up to date" on another cacher's logs, yet also addresses privacy concerns by requiring friends to be "opt-in." --ken I agree Jeremy's description with a opt-in is pretty much a perfect solution to this request. <fingers crossed> Thorin Link to comment
+Mastifflover Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Of course if you do this someone will want to keep stats on who has the most friends. Link to comment
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