GCVote Help
Configuration
GCVote adds a section to the right sidebar on your own profile page
(www.geocaching.com/my) where
you can change a few settings. Changes must be saved by clicking on the button. The settings
(including the password) are stored
in your browser's configuration and you can see them on about:config in the section greasemonkey.scriptvals.
Password
No password is needed to view cache ratings. It is only mandatory if you want to rate caches. See installation for more information on this.If you access more than one account for geocaching.com on the same computer, you can add a password for each one. GCVote can store a different password for each user name it encounters.
Template for info text
You can automatically add a short phrase of your choice at the end of a 'found' log with a single click of a button ('Insert GCVote Info'). The default text is (Rated %%% stars with GCVote) where %%% will be replaced by the rating value you entered for that cache. You can edit this text in that box and another example could be:"\nI rated this cache using [url=http://www.gcvote.com]GCVote[/url])."
if you prefer to let the owner/visitors know you rated the cache but you do not include your rating into the log.
Minimum vote count
If you think that one vote is not enough to get a good idea of a cache's rating, you can enter a higher value here. Caches with fewer votes will be displayed as unrated, making it easier to see the caches with a lot of votes.Average calculation
You can choose different ways to calculate the displayed average rating.- Mean: The arithmetic mean is what you usually think of as average.
- Median: The median should give more stable results when a few users gave extreme ratings. I recommend using this one.
Updates
If an update become available for GCVote, a red update note will be displayed here in the GCVote's Configuration box.Histogram
With the exception of the map page, you can click on the stars to see a histogram of the cache's votes.