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[Space Doubt Caver]

Looking at the website and form, there only appears to be a way to enter a cave name and tick a box for the cleanliness status. Eg clean, graffiti, rubbish.

There appears to be no place to add a free text description (eg "new graffiti found on south side of main chamber"), or to upload a photograph.

There is also no way to record the severity of the problem. Eg. A pop bottle floating between the Rowten sumps (as I found and removed at the weekend) would be recorded the same as someone emptying the back of their tipper transit into the cave entrance.

I have found the whole "is it on the list or not on the list" thing totally confusing, as the list is nowhere nearby. If you're working on updating the website, a drop-down selection for region, then a drop-down selection for caves within that region (with an option of "other") would make this much more intuitive. Subdividing regions into areas would make it a lot easier to use once you've got a sensible number of sites listed, so it would definitely be worth adding that too.

On this point, I would speculate that you can import cave names from the various regional bodies, rather than manually adding sites one at a time in what appears to be a totally arbitrary manner at present.

If the reporting system was a bit more user-friendly and the lists more complete, people would perhaps be more tempted to submit data. Hopefully your website update will address this.

Hey Pete.

Thank you for this feedback, will take this onboard and look into implementing some of the features you have mentioned above, As I agree with the great points you have made.

Thank You
SDC