Weekly Rant: Lazy waymarkers

I'm an officer on several categories, and with the good weather of spring, there have been floods of new waymarks submitted lately. One thing that I've noticed is that sometimes people do the least amount of work possible to write up a mark. It seems that in the rush to list a weekend's worth of waymarks, they sacrifice the quality of individual marks to pump up their numbers. Really - how tough is it to check and see if a site has a website? To check and see what a business' hours are? As a waymarker you are known by the waymarks you post - do you really want the description "half-assed" be something people think of when they think of you?

It can get tedious when you have a bunch of waymarks to enter, but if you notice that you're starting to dread having to post the next mark then take a break. Try limiting it to 2-3 waymarks in a sitting. And if posting is that distasteful to you, then visit waymarks instead and let someone else do the spots justice when they post them to the Website.

It's one thing to have typos or to invert coordinates due to over-zealous typing. Lord knows I am regularly guilty of that. But to purposely skip adding information that will make a visit to the site easier and more fulfilling so you can move on to posting your next waymark, well that makes it to the top of my "lame list" for the day.

I don't want it to sound like there are a lot of people that do this. Most of the waymarks that come through my queue are well researched and written. Thankfully the lazy waymarker seems to be in the minority.