@hozn 168804 wrote:
We need a process for tracking pointless prize requests (so I may ask you to post this to our google group or something), but just off the cuff here, I’d propose that you could do:
– The #coffeeride tag, as you note, to identify that the ride includes coffee stop(s)
– Since photos are required, you could add captions to the photos that also include a tag identifying it as coffee-shop photo. Unique per coffee shop. E.g. “#coffee-1” or “#coffee-amouri”. Asssuming that we can process the captions, someone could write some backend code that counts the distinct hashtags in photo captions that start with “#coffee”.
– (Of course you could also just let people put various #coffee-* hashtags on their rides, but if you want to enforce that photos are present that prove the coffee-shop stop, I think doing it on captions makes more sense.)
I’m not sure how much backend work is involved (it’s a bit different than the simple ride counting we do for other hashtags, obviously) or who will do it, but we do have a bunch of volunteers, so hopefully it could get done.
Last year, jrenaut http://bikearlingtonforum.com/member.php?733-jrenaut created the Points Per Mile (PPM) leaderboard so I assume (hope?) it can be recreated this year without too much trouble.
I’m open to suggestions as to how to make my Coffee Ride Pointless Prize as easy as possible. I can drop the photo requirement if that makes it too difficult/involved. It’s more important to be able to keep track of the total number of DIFFERENT coffee rides. Would something like this work? Require the ride to be named on Strava with the following nomenclature: #FS2018coffeeride and then the name/location of the coffee shop. I’m willing to make it an honor system and assume that people aren’t going to Starbucks, going to the same coffee place more than once, or otherwise breaking the rules. If we did that, would it then be just a simple matter of counting the rides?
THANX!
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