Handshake achievement

This is a proposal made on 2010-01-30. Please leave comments and suggestions on Talk:Handshake achievement, indicating your thoughts on the proposal, including:

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Description

Claim this achievement if you have met several other geohashers on your attempts (succesful or not) to go geohashing. Thus, it does not count if you have met geohashers under different circumstances or have known them before but never went geohashing with them. Your drag-alongs will only count to this number if they started to go geohashing independently after being dragged by you. Hashscots met do never count.

Ranks

• 5 to 9 geohashers met earns you the Little Finger Handshake achievement

This user earned the Little Finger Handshake achievement by meeting {{{number}}} other geohashers since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.

• 10 to 19 geohashers met earns you the (standard) Handshake achievement

This user earned the Handshake achievement by meeting {{{number}}} other geohashers since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.

• 20 to 34 geohashers met earns you the Bronze Handshake achievement

This user earned the Bronze Handshake achievement by meeting {{{number}}} other geohashers since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.

• 35 to 49 geohashers met earns you the Silver Handshake achievement

This user earned the Silver Handshake achievement by meeting {{{number}}} other geohashers since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.

• 50 or more geohashers met earns you the Golden Handshake achievement

This user earned the Golden Handshake achievement by meeting {{{number}}} other geohashers since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.

I will try to somehow change the ribbon images accordingly, but I don't think I will turn out not to be able to do this well - so if anybody has suggestions, please go ahead! :)

And for sparsely populated areas you might still be able to claim this honourable mention if you met at least half of the geohashers in your and the eight surrounding graticules (at least two though!)

This user earned the Handshake achievement honourable mention by meeting {{{number}}} out of {{{total number}}} geohashers from the surrounding graticules since {{{date first other hasher met}}}.