Watch User

[jamjar58]

We have the ability to place caches and trackables on watchlists so we get an email every time they are found. What about adding the ability to watch or follow another cacher?

 

Perhaps this is a PM feature that I am unaware of, but I am not a PM.

[+Traditional Bill]

We have the ability to place caches and trackables on watchlists so we get an email every time they are found. What about adding the ability to watch or follow another cacher?

 

Perhaps this is a PM feature that I am unaware of, but I am not a PM.

 

As far as I know, that's not a feature on GC at all. In fact, if it was, I'd be a little creeped out.

[+Shinook & White Juan]

It would creep me out.

[+Wet Pancake Touring Club]

One concern with a general 'watch a cacher' feature is this can become an invasion of privacy issue.

 

You can make a friend request of a person. If they accept, they will appear in your Friends list. It shows a couple of details on the overview page, and you can dig into more details from there. It does not notify me when they do something, it just a quick way to get to their profile page. Speaking of which, you can also look someone up from your profile page. This will also take you to their profile page. I don't know if that is a PM feature or not. I have a PM.

[Pup Patrol]

We have the ability to place caches and trackables on watchlists so we get an email every time they are found. What about adding the ability to watch or follow another cacher?

 

Perhaps this is a PM feature that I am unaware of, but I am not a PM.

 

Why on earth would you want to watch another cacher?

 

Talk about creepy stalker behaviour.

 

 

B.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

In other words... you would like Groundspeak to enable you as a stalker.

 

Nope. Not gonna happen. I don't think they want the civil liability associated with being an "enabler".

 

 

Just different ways of lookin' at such an issue....

 

ETA: There have been a few folks already expressing concerns over being stalked regarding somebody else "watching" their geocaching activity. Expressed here in these forums not too long ago.

Edited April 17, 2014 by Gitchee-Gummee

[+cerberus1]

Add me to the list...

Watching a cache (an object) is okay, watching/following a person is kinda stalking creepy stuff.

- but we still have the pmo audit...

 

"Follow us on (social site)" taken literally. Weird

[+L0ne.R]

Groundspeak already makes it easy. Go to the public profile page. Click the Geocaches tab. Click All Geocache Finds and bookmark the page. Every day click your bookmark to check on where the person has been. If they use the app out in the field, you may also get to figure out where they are in real time. (I wish GS wouldn't make it so easy).

 

[+Walts Hunting]

That's a pretty slick tracking method.

[+J Grouchy]

Groundspeak already makes it easy. Go to the public profile page. Click the Geocaches tab. Click All Geocache Finds and bookmark the page. Every day click your bookmark to check on where the person has been. If they use the app out in the field, you may also get to figure out where they are in real time. (I wish GS wouldn't make it so easy).

 

All that is probably why they don't time stamp logs. It's enough to know they found the cache that day...showing time stamps could be used for unsavory purposes. It's fine if folks want to put the time in their log (FTF is when I commonly see that).

[+Semper Questio]

We have the ability to place caches and trackables on watchlists so we get an email every time they are found. What about adding the ability to watch or follow another cacher?

 

Perhaps this is a PM feature that I am unaware of, but I am not a PM.

 

Why on earth would you want to watch another cacher?

 

Talk about creepy stalker behaviour.

 

B.

 

Well, I have a few caching friends who I keep tabs on regularly and they do the same with me. We like following each others' adventures when we aren't caching together which is never as often as we would like. It's kind of a virtual way of caching together and we talk about each others' experiences we read about when we finally do get together.

 

Now, doing it with an openly available watchlist? No.

 

What I would like to see is to be able to make this a feature of the "Friends" function. If you want to "Follow" someone you have to first "Friend" them. Then to follow that friend, you check a box or something and then they get a notification and have to allow it. If they do that, then you get an email for every log they submit. If they don't you get an email telling you they have chosen not to be "followed". There could also be a profile option to allow or disallow follow requests from friends in the first place. Another layer of permission.

[+J Grouchy]

Well, I have a few caching friends who I keep tabs on regularly and they do the same with me. We like following each others' adventures when we aren't caching together which is never as often as we would like. It's kind of a virtual way of caching together and we talk about each others' experiences we read about when we finally do get together.

 

Now, doing it with an openly available watchlist? No.

 

What I would like to see is to be able to make this a feature of the "Friends" function. If you want to "Follow" someone you have to first "Friend" them. Then to follow that friend, you check a box or something and then they get a notification and have to allow it. If they do that, then you get an email for every log they submit. If they don't you get an email telling you they have chosen not to be "followed". There could also be a profile option to allow or disallow follow requests from friends in the first place. Another layer of permission.

 

Oh lordy...ANOTHER set of emails! Why can't GC just employ an in-app and on-site notification instead of sending a stinkin' email for every little thing?

[+Semper Questio]

Well, I have a few caching friends who I keep tabs on regularly and they do the same with me. We like following each others' adventures when we aren't caching together which is never as often as we would like. It's kind of a virtual way of caching together and we talk about each others' experiences we read about when we finally do get together.

 

Now, doing it with an openly available watchlist? No.

 

What I would like to see is to be able to make this a feature of the "Friends" function. If you want to "Follow" someone you have to first "Friend" them. Then to follow that friend, you check a box or something and then they get a notification and have to allow it. If they do that, then you get an email for every log they submit. If they don't you get an email telling you they have chosen not to be "followed". There could also be a profile option to allow or disallow follow requests from friends in the first place. Another layer of permission.

 

Oh lordy...ANOTHER set of emails! Why can't GC just employ an in-app and on-site notification instead of sending a stinkin' email for every little thing?

 

That's something else they need to do. Give users their own preferred method of contact options. But as things stand now, emails are how GC does this kinda thing.