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  1. SE7EN
    quote:Originally posted by Syn:And I dont care if my caches gets targeted now because of it...if you want to play games with peoples caches, then I am more than happy to play games with yours by permanently removing them and hucking them into the nearest garbage. Just hope area caches don't start turning up missing with a little note that says, "You can thank Syn for this cache going missing. He shouldn't have started this war. Condolences on your loss. BTW, his user number is xxxxx. Why don't you email him with your thoughts on the loss of your cache?" This hobby only survives on the inherent goodness of people. Create someone with a mission and the cache population in a large area could be destroyed. The answer is NOT retaliation. ...unless, of course, you don't care for geocaching, anymore.
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    Pretty stupid idea if you ask me. The whole purpose of GC.com is to list caches so other people can find them. Won't happen. You'd still have to make sure the people you intend to open this capsule knew about the site, the cache ID, and more to access. It'd be better and easier on everyone if you just wrote the coordinates down in a scrapbook. Jeremy has many more things better to do than to create a cache type for caches that benefit only a very select few people.
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    Before we go any further, let's make sure we all are on the same page. Here are the definitions: TROLL: a person who posts an inflammatory remark specifically to elicit heated replies, or flames. Most often as a joke to get people riled up. pseudonym: a pen name, fictious name made up to author messages. Also, called 'nym, pseudo, or handle. Sock Puppet: a handle used by a person to support the argument made by the same person under a different handle in order to appear to have more than one person supporting the stated postion. Sock PuppetAs used on geocaching.com: a person posting under a different handle than one they post finds/hides under. Typically, the sock puppet will have zero finds and zero hides. So, as you can see a sock puppet can actually be something bad and if used like what it is typically used for is deceiving and should be despised. However, an account used to hide a person's caching handle can be used for something other than hatefulness. The reason I use a different 'nym than my caching handle is so I can query the forum on ideas I've had and not tip my hand to my fellow, local cachers. Simple as that. AFAICR, I've never posted under my sock puppet account to support or counter a post made under my caching handle. I have forgotten which account I was posting under and instead of going "oops" and then posting another under the right account I've adjusted the message and left it--that's probably the closest I've come to acting like a true sock puppet. Yes, true sock puppets are vile and are to be despised. If you want to come up with a title for the type handle that I'm using at the very minute, the handle that I use to insulate my true caching handle from the posts where I want to stay anonymous, then fine, let's make up something. But please realize GeoSockPuppets and true sock puppets are two completely different things. Thank you for your time. Signed, SE7EN (Not my real name.)
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    My pleasure!
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    quote:Originally posted by General Bracket:Seriously, if you're offended I used your code I'll take it down. Not at all! I'm flattered!
  6. SE7EN
    No problem. Upload the graphic you want to use. Put <BODY BACKGROUND="//domain.com/your/graphic/here.gif"> somewhere in Bio, Hobbies, or Recent News. NOTE: Do not put the HTTP: as the site script will try to convert it to a link. Use "Slash Slash" and then the rest of the full URL, but not the HTTP:. Works with IE5.5, don't know about the rest. Cheers!
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    quote:Originally posted by welch:They changed more than just the background, But I wondered if the TPTB discourage such things...?? DOH! But why should they discourage custom profile pages? Except that I read a post by Jeremy and I quote, "I seriously despise puppet accounts so please don't be deceptive. " So, I'll be on my best behaviour. ...mostly.
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    You mean like in my profile? Look at the source, it's actually fairly easy. Look at the source right after "Other Hobbies" and go from there!
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    You can't stop Sock Puppets in an open forum. Not with time restrictions. Not with IP checks. Not with mail origins. Not with authentication. There are easy ways around all of the above. Only by shutting down open registration can you shut down sock puppets. Check my profile. Getting around all of the above mentioned checks and restrictions are as easy as what I did with my profile. Simple as that.
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    If you look at someone's profile page source, just below where it shows how many bench marks, there it will show how many Traditional caches that person has found. For example, here's mine: ...<FONT SIZE=2>Travel Bugs Owned/Found: 0/0</FONT><br/><FONT SIZE=2>Benchmarks <A HREF="../mark/nearest.asp?A=100135">Found</A>: 0<br><br><!--Traditional: 0<p>-->... Nifty!
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    I used to have my profile look like this: But today, I noticed somebody had deleted everything in it. I'm not trying to hide anything on this account, it's all zeros and nothing other than saying it's a sockpuppet account. I don't particularly care for anyone to email me. Besides, you can look at the source to see everything underneath. I've put it back. Let's see how long it stays. So, why would someone delete my fun little hack?
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    It might be because it's for registered users only. I believe this is the only forum that you can't access if you aren't logged on.
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    ...who said, "computer, freeze program!"
  14. SE7EN
    http://store.yahoo.com/tigergps/newmagsporpr.html Can't vouch for the vendor, but it's available. ...at decent price, too!
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    quote:Originally posted by kd4adc:If you have 450 finds, you've found 450 caches. It's that simple. Uh, no. Just because you've stumbled across an artesian well and remembered it's a locationless doesn't mean you've hunted it. Doesn't mean you've even fired up your GPS except to get it in the pic. The only skills needed are to be able to read the coordinates off the unit and take a picture. Locationless caches are not hunted like any other cache, therefor they shouldn't be counted in with them. Someone who has hunted only 15 caches would still be considered a newbie around here and that was the reason I said it that way. The numbers, though, show he is an veryexperienced cacher, which he is not--I wouldn't be calling 15 real chaches found experienced. quote:Actually, from a numbers standpoint (which is your initial gripe) the find count is inherently flawed and biased very much towards cachers who work first shift, have kids with ballgames all day Saturday, go to church on Sunday, and live in rural areas where the cache concentrations are low. Unemployed, single cachers who live in metropolitan areas have much higher find counts. You might want to clarify this concept. If you're meaning each number has more merit because you're buzy, I don't see it. A few drive-bys count the same as a few 5/5s, both of which could be done by busy parents. Yet the merit of each count is vastly different. If you're meaning the numbers are biased because of concentration or free time, then I would think you mean "biased against." Eh, whatever. You can make your statement mean anything you want. But neither free time nor concentration have anything to do with the ability of racking up locationless count more than the time you started trying to find them. Any particular spot, once logged, is now useless to the rest of the geocaching community as it pertains to find counts. Most are once logged, that's it. Now, because most things created as a locationless are limited, like drive-in theaters, there are a finite number of cachers who can log it. That's the flaw. quote:I like all caches. I like benchmarks. I'll log anything I can find. Don't do away with any of them. Never said I wanted to do away with them. I said the locationless counts shouldn't be in with the regular cache counts. For Welch, I mean physical caches and true virts. I don't think CITO and other event types should be in the count either.
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    quote:Originally posted by timpaula:actually, i'd feel better if they took tuesdays & wednesdays off. Weekends are made for geocaching, you know? Prime time. Would be nice to know someone's minding the store. WELL SAID!!!
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    quote:Originally posted by Kite & Hawkeye:...but a cache that said, "Okay, here's the Fabulous Historical Site of 1843... and here's the final cache site, an empty lot!" would, well, suck. You know what else sucks? Lame virts because somebody was too lazy to even get coords right or produce a halfway interesting cache location. Owners that say wait for email response before posting find, yet never return an email. Verifications that require you to answer a dozen questions. Virtuals you don't even have to stop to log. Virts that actually could be enhanced with a micro. Instead of "Here's a steam engine, email me the number" could have been "here's a steam engine, now find the micro." Lame virts that block a good cache in an adjacent park. That list could go on and on. And another thing, if you have coords take you to a spot where you have to somehow decypher or find clues to another spot, that is by definition a multi. Doesn't matter if the next or final stage is miles away or 100' away, it's still multi. The final stage could be at a clubhouse, outhouse, or the ranger station, doesn't matter, it's still a multi. So, your arguement about not trying to shoehorn virts into multis doesn't hold water. There are a great deal of things that people can do to create a multi on site that people overlook. No one is saying that you have to create a lame physical to incorporate a virt. I've done some that has taken me many miles to do. Plus, you're supposed to be placing caches where you can maintain them. This should indicate that you are near enough to the area that you could scout out better places that an empty lot to place a cache. There is no way you can tell me "all the good places are gone." We heard this many times before, yet hundreds of more caches have gone in. HINT: at present, there is no rule limiting the final stage of a cache being within the .1 mile radius restriction.
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    quote:Originally posted by Brian - Team A.I.:Take look at this log entry from Friday night. Honestly, which do you think came first, the chicken or the egging? Okay, bad pun. However, it could have been that this guy's action are what caused the egging and now he's using it as an excuse. Charges are in order, I think. Somebody, or some thing, has got to calm this guy down before he starts carrying a gun!
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    quote:Originally posted by Cholo:Settle down and relax, this is way too much animosity over nothing. I guess the emphasis could indicate heightened emotion, but is was only to indicate what I said was my opinion only.
  20. SE7EN
    More publicity will likely bring it into the mainstream. Advantages: It could be made more accepted, authorities more likely to understand what's going on, new ideas, fresh blood, and more caches. Disadvantages: Fresh blood that has to be taught how to do things all the while risking cache security, more lame-assed caches blocking people who put out good caches, crappy ideas and whinning why their's is not acceptable. One of my biggest worries is malious teens with a GPS. The more mainstream it is, the more likely there will be someone who thinks it cool to steal caches. We already see some of it today. It wouldn't take a band of rouge cachers long to do serious damage to our sport in the way of trampling cache locations, stealing the cache, or ruining the cache by means already seen here in the forums. Hiding caches is like leaving your car unlocked, windows down, and the keys in the ignition. Eventually, as more people see it, the more likely it won't be there in the morning to take you to work. It's my opinion that geocaching is an inherently flawed concept to take into the mainstream--the reason is security. You simply cannot prevent, or even deter, vandalism.
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    quote:Originally posted by Jolly B Good:I couldn't agree more. I don't do locationless caches myself but I don't see why they can't be part of sport. I've never understood why so many people are so vocal (and sometimes hostile) about cache types they don't like. It's easy enough to filter them out and ignore them. Where's the harm? The harm is in the numbers. The locationless cache counts as a regular find. With many locationless caches a particular find can be logged only once. Some can be logged mulitple times by the same person. Say you're looking for massive widgets. There is only one in a hundred mile radius. But, an earlier cacher has already logged it. Well, you've just been robbed of a find. That's cool, stratch that one off. Well, then there's the one where you can log all of the historical signs. But wait, you've just joined the sport and an earlier cacher has already found all of them in your area and thus inflated his find count by 450 finds! Only thing, he's only found 15 physical caches. To a outsider looking in, he would look like a much more experienced cacher than he really is. You know how many locationlesses we've tried to do only to discover it's already been logged? Talking about frustration! In short, there really is nothing wrong with a locationless cache, per se. Thing is, including them into the find count is inherently flawed and biased very much towards cachers who have been into the sport for a while. Heck, even locationless caches themselves are biased towards people who have been around for a while. Once, your area is exhausted, that location is useless to you. Imagine how many of today's locationless caches can even be done in a couple of years. Until there is a change in the way queries are handled for locationlesses so ALL of the logs can be downloaded into your PDA, there is no way you will be able to tell a particular location has already been logged. Until then you'd just have to treat each locationless as not found and hope it hasn't been logged. That's way I think locationless caches don't belong in with the regular caches.
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    Some people just don't get it. This site is called GeoCaching. Even variations of the game name include something about a stash. With a virt there is no cache. You place a virt where a physcial could go, you take away from the game. "If you don't like them, then don't do them," is very short sighted. You are only looking at it from a finder's view. What about a hider's view? When a virt holds a spot in a park, it blocks being able to place a physical cache. By it's very definition means there can't be a cache there until the virt goes away. Like another poster said, a physical cache can be everything a virtual can be and more. However, the only advantage a virt has is being able to go into places physicals are prohibited. By it's very nature, a virt is a lesser cache than a physical. There is nothing lamer than a lame virt--some you can do without even stoping the car! Now, how lame is that? Even with the lamest of physicals there is still something you have find, pick up, open, and interact with. When/if land managers think virtual caches are "just as good" as physical caches, then a good portion of them will only allow virtuals. As more and more managers get wind of others allowing only virts and thinking that's an acceptable solution, the next thing we know our sport is changed forever. When you are doing virtual cache, the owner is supposed to be telling you, among other things, "sorry I wasn't able to place a physical cache here, the managers have prohibited them." He's not supposed to be telling you, "I didn't put a physical cache because I didn't feel like it." "Bring back virtuals?" Where did they go? I still get them in my queries. I also bet I could get one approved on the first or second go around, if I could find an interesting spot around here that I simply could not incorporate into a physical. All you have to do is read some of the posts by the approvers here to realize what it takes to post a virt.
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    I always figured "Code Word Micros" were so lazy people could play the game. Too lazy to miniturize your cache into your choosen container? Simply put a code word in it! Nice, simple, lazy way to put out a cache.
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    Don't think you can directly. Use a filter in your email client to automatically forward emails from geocaching.com to your friend. If you have a site hosted somewhere a lot of times they allow for unlimited aliases. Create one for your geocaching mail and have it forwarded to both of your accounts. If you want only this cache's notification sent to both people, then I'm at a loss other than creating a team account for both of you. That opens a new can of worms though and I wouldn't do it. Maybe the new site, due out at anytime now, will have a fix for these things. Let's hope.
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    Leave them out so the prudes don't have anything to say about it. I agree most heartily with DustyJacket. The surface of our society is prudish in the extreme. Any U.S. paper that tried to mimic Britian's Page 3 Girl would be burned to the ground, both figuratively and literally! If the media got wind of Playboys in a cache, we would suffer the same fate. Don't do it.
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