05-09-2024 09:02 PM - edited 05-09-2024 09:14 PM
05-09-2024 09:55 PM - edited 05-09-2024 10:27 PM
It's so good to hear from you; and big congratulations on your master director and level 9 achievement. I had a bout of covid in February and I can't imagine going through two more.😳 I've only added a few videos in the last 2 or 3 months so my master directors badge is still quite a ways off. During this uncertain time I've taken to mapping and I am about to hit 1300 roads. Something fun to do without leaving the house! Congratulations again and welcome back.🎉👍😍
I think the video competition is tougher at level 8 than at 9.
05-09-2024 11:28 PM
Congratulations on your 1,000 videos @nigelfreeney. I'm now 14 away from 100, so that will be an upgraded badge for me too. Congrats also on attaining Level 9. Hope to be with you soon, but I'm getting there by drawing roads. It has made a big difference to my numbers. Need another 10,272 points
I can certainly relate to your COVID experience. I got it last week at the end of a 15-day trip overseas. Zero energy this week. The only positive is that I have a lot more photos and videos to upload than usual, and I'm posting them one location per day. Should keep me busy for a while even if I don't get out to capture more local photos soon.
Get well soon, Nigel.
05-10-2024 01:57 AM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Level 9.
Ich wusste nicht, dass Corona immer noch
grasiert. Hier bei uns ist es kein Thema.
Auf jeden Fall wünsche ich allen
gute Besserung und Gesundheit.
05-10-2024 02:36 AM
Great to see you back in action, @nigelfreeney .
I had a sore back for more than a month which is finally working well again.
In parallel to you I have also been seriously affected by the failure of Google to fix the photo views issue and their decision to not respond to the reasonable questions and criticism related to this.
I'm afraid a few new badges or a level will not fix my frustrations and loss of motivation. But I'm happy it works for you.
Cheers
Morten
05-10-2024 03:12 AM
I once successfully asked the guy behind lgstats to manually move my location after a vacation.
His email us on the site.
Cheers
Morten
05-10-2024 04:08 AM - edited 05-10-2024 05:25 AM
Hearty congratulations @nigelfreeney on your bunch of achievements including Level 9 of Local Guide.
Hope you are fully recovered now. Take plenty of fluid and good rest.
05-10-2024 04:38 AM
Hello @nigelfreeney Congratulations for the achievement of Level-9 and Master director with 1008 videos. I am curious to know what is your video views impact.
05-10-2024 05:19 AM - edited 05-10-2024 06:26 AM
Hello @nigelfreeney
Sorry to hear about your stoush with COVID and hoping you win this and get back up to speed. Yes I did notice a drop off in your participation lately so thank you for explaining why.
Regardless of the size of change in points or views etc, I recommend that we each always update. As well as recording your own personal history, it gives us a good macro view of what's happening.
Congratulations on reaching Level 9 and getting your Master Director and Master Fact Finder badges and I do wish you the very best in achieving the remaining two Master badges!!!
Sheesh you posted nearly 400 videos in April alone! I'm sure that in time we'll see the success of this on one or more leaderboards and hopefully not just in terms of the number of videos.
Jumping onto a higher Top 100 leaderboard is always risky and this is discussed in some detail in the leaderboard documentation. Good luck there.
Regarding the VIP details you briefly mention, new things are in the pipeline....stay tuned.
Get well soon!
05-10-2024 03:54 PM
It so good to see you back @nigelfreeney I had noticed you were much quieter than before, but right now so is everyone.
So sorry to hear about the covid. Wow 3 different times. I know how much it knocked me out 2 years ago when I contacted it. Get yourself healthy.
Congratulations on the Level 9 badge and the master director's badge. In that post of mine you mentioned one of my goals was to hit the 1000 videos and the directors badge before April30th. Alas when the slow down of videos and photos acceptance and views hit us all, I like many other guides also slowed down my contributions. I am at 738 videos posted and hope to achieve the badge before June 30th.
Also sorry to hear about your broken cameras, glad they were covered by insurance. I'm glad it was just the cameras that got broken and not you.
Welcome back my friend and get healthy. Be careful on that bicycle of yours.