Question regarding changes to BadgeGen The author.
If I understand it correctly, it will not count repeated patterns of characters and smileys. Will the algorithm also evaluate the same and similar words in each logo? Therefore, if I log a powertrail of several hundred caches, where it is not possible to write anything other than the copied log for each cache, then I am out of luck and the algorithm will evaluate it as worthless words? Does this BadgeGen even make sense then? And what if I start copying texts from books in all languages, different in each logo of course? How does the algorithm deal with this? And isn't that cheating? Some of my friends also use the same logos repeatedly and still get higher scores. How is it possible? A lot of geocachers used these image logos as their business card, and even my logo was unique because of that. And I didn't mean to cheat, I just liked it that way. Now I would say that this news is rather demotivating and my first reaction to this change was why should I continue to support Project-GC when it is going against us. I will go back to geocaching in 2006 and the statistics will cease to interest me. I will just enjoy visiting interesting places and finding caches. So thank you for your insight and you have one less customer. And as I observe it in the Czech geocacher community, I won't be the only one.