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Changed By: arisoft
Change Date: September 26, 2018 07:09PM
Re: Checker 360º
You described correcly what is the difficult part here. I fear that any tool, beginning from your own profile statistics, can be declared to be a challenge checker, if it can be used to check the challenge status. That would be little bit overprotecting if it is only a link which is not decribed to be a checker and the reason is avoid any misunderstanding that there is an ALR.
Most Unchallenges needs just a statistical value, number of finds etc. And providing a link to the suitable tool is expected by geocachers who are reading the page. In many cases the idea of the voluntary challenge is just presenting a new way to look at your statistics like this 360º challenge. That idea doesn't work perfectly if the tool is a mystery.
What options we have to understand this question better? At this moment it seems that the best approach is to replace the direct link with a verbal description without any link. Would it be acceptable if we have a "non checker" mode in the checker. A mode which never indicate wwhether the challenge is qualified or not and there is no wording about challenges or checkers at all.
Original Message
Author: arisoft
Date: September 26, 2018 07:05PM
Re: Checker 360º
You described correcly what is the difficult part here. I fear that any tool, beginning from your own profile statistics, can be declared to be a challenge checker, if it can be used to check the challenge status. That would be little bit overprotecting if it is only a link which is not decribed to be a checker and the reason is avoid any misunderstanding that there is an ALR.
Most Unchallenges needs just a statistical value, number of finds etc. And providing a link to the suitable tool is expected by geocachers who are reading the page. In many cases the idea of the voluntary challenge is just presenting a new way to look at your statistics like this 360º challenge. That idea doesn't work perfectly if the tool is a mystery.
What options we have to understand this question better? At this moment it seems that the best approach is to replace the direct link with a verbal description without any link. Would it be acceptable if we have a "non checker" mode in the checker. A mode which never indicate wether the challenge is qualified or not and there is no wording about challenges or checkers at all.