A few days ago, I suggested that a change be made to the web site.


Please read/re-read the suggestion and then post your idea/suggestions here in this forum.

Here is what I originally wrote:

I don't understand why a note can't be re-entered if it has unassistedly found its way back to someone who has previously possessed it.

I believe there are essentially two types of "returns" possible: 1) a tracker enters a note, marks it, and then "launches" it...and then somewhere/somehow along the line that particular note finds its way back to the tracker who originally launched it...and 2) a similar thing happens when a note generates a hit and then finds its way back to the tracker who entered the hit.

I suggest that the site be revised to allow recording both types of situations.

I feel that neither should affect the tracker's CMT score.

I would further suggest that the above two scenarios be named 1) a boomerang and 2) a boomerang2.






A few days later, I wrote a response to a fellow tracker who had responded to an idea I had written about.

Here is part of what I had written: I would suggest that the site be altered in such a way that the boomerang effect would get recorded in the "hit history" of the particular note but in such a way that future trackers who hit that note could quickly and easily "see" that the note had previously boomeranged.

It seems to me that the boomerang effect is, at least, as interesting as some of the scenarios that the site is already recording. (How, for example, could some of the entries for the 2004 $20 note EYG81***23 or the 2002 $5 note HNN58***90 be justifiably worth recording?)

I suppose there's always the chance that someone will consciously falsify his/her own records...but, I suspect, there's some degree of that, in some form or other, going on any way. (Who could create a system so fool-proof that there was absolutely no way to "get around" it?)

I don't see recording the boomerang effect much different to a note being entered multiple times in the same community. (Let's face it, that COULD [and please understand that I am not implying that I think that that is going on] simply be some buddies passing a note around among themselves; couldn't any, so-called, "hit" be created by buddies in different communities?)

If we're working on the honour system (and, it seems to me, that that's what this site operates on) I'm probably less likely to consciously create a boomerang effect than I am to consciously create some fake "hits" (since, as suggested, the boomerang effect wouldn't affect the CMT score).


I believe that the suggested changes can be made; I would guess that they are more likely to be made sooner rather than later if they have significant support. I further believe that the best way to show support for the idea is to post your support for it here in this forum. I challenge you to post any further ideas/suggestions and your support or opposition here.

Respectfully submitted,
Roger eroom29