Delay in updating Favourite Points

Question

I'm a full paid up member, so my stats get updated once per day.

Each time I update my stats I can see that all my info is correct except 1 thing, my awarded Favourite Points.

For some reason this stat is always several days out of date.

This has been the 'norm' since I first noticed it over a year ago. I'm just curious as to why that particular stat doesn't get updated accurately like the others?

Cheers,

TwigNZ

Answer 1

This is probably due to people adding FPs after originally posting their log. If the FP is added immediately, we'll see it at the same time as the log. If your log has already been processed when the FP is added, then it can take some time (probably until the next time the cache is logged) until we find your FP.

Comments

You mean the email "Project-GC FP notifications"? If so, no. That's generated daily and lists all the FPs awarded (and detected so far) over the last day. It's not triggered by the logging but just sent once daily.

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No, I meant the e-mail notification from Groundspeak that someone has logged one of my caches.

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I have noted the email generated by GC doesn't always have the bit at the bottom saying fav point awarded even if it has been.

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I would assume that means that the FP was added after initially saving the online log. Quite often I forget to add the FP when writing the log so that I have to add it manually immediately afterwards. That's probably enough for the FP not to be listed at the bottom of the log mail to the CO, but if you would then immediately follow the link in the mail to the cache, it would show the extra FP.

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Hi again DDM.
That would be a fair point (and I agree with pinkunicorn in that I often forget to add a FP until after I submit my online log), so I went back and checked the e-mail from GC and in this particular case the e-mail shows that the finder did award a FP at the time of logging.
I did not check my stats yesterday (Sat) but just to update you that my stats are now (Sun) showing the correct figure of 149 so it has obviously caught up in the last 24 hours or so.
Having been a software Beta tester before, unfortunately not checking my stats yesterday means I inadvertently added another variable to the mix so I cannot be sure whether NOT checking stats for a period in excess of 24 hrs makes any difference, or whether the FP would have been found regardless in this instance.
So whilst I'm happy that it has caught up, in my mind I haven't completely isolated the causes of the initial delays.
Next time I get awarded a FP (as notified by GC) I may have to conduct a couple of experiments around accessing my PGC stats to see if I can't narrow down the circumstances which cause the delay...watch this space.

Thanks for all your replies (both of you), and keep up the good work :)