the4dirtydogs
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In a matter of days, people using this app have caused all sorts of problems. Arlington National Cemetery has asked people to refrain from doing it on their grounds. Storekeepers are putting signs in store windows telling players to stay away. The police are raising red flags about safety because of people walking into traffic.
Geocachers would be well advised to create as much distance from this insipid nonsense as possible. It is a trainwreck and exactly what we have worked diligently for years to avoid.
Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious.
We are constantly fighting to save the game from the problems you've mentioned.
In a matter of days, this new thing has caused more hassle than geocachers cause in a year. And our name is being associated with it. I expect we'll see even more parks and municipal properties become off-limits to GPS games including ours, despite all the efforts we have made to save it.
What hassle are you talking about???? Too many people in one spot....like a flash mob? People walking into traffic? What hassle? It's a virtual game with NOTHING real to find,hide. Just some people walking around staring at their phones. What's the hassle?
There have been numerous instances of people playing the game in places that are inappropriate, in a manner that is causing public alarm and inconvenience. People are playing it while they drive. They are walking into private businesses and bothering proprietors and paying customers. They are turning solemn historical landmarks into game spaces without permission from the property managers. This stuff is all over the news, and geocaching is being named next to it. We should be working to put lots of daylight between geocaching and this new app fad.
I'll let you work on putting lots of daylight between this new app fad....I have way better things to worry about. LMAO. What little I've seen on the news....I have not heard one word of geocaching. SMH
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In a matter of days, people using this app have caused all sorts of problems. Arlington National Cemetery has asked people to refrain from doing it on their grounds. Storekeepers are putting signs in store windows telling players to stay away. The police are raising red flags about safety because of people walking into traffic.
Geocachers would be well advised to create as much distance from this insipid nonsense as possible. It is a trainwreck and exactly what we have worked diligently for years to avoid.
Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious.
We are constantly fighting to save the game from the problems you've mentioned.
In a matter of days, this new thing has caused more hassle than geocachers cause in a year. And our name is being associated with it. I expect we'll see even more parks and municipal properties become off-limits to GPS games including ours, despite all the efforts we have made to save it.
What hassle are you talking about???? Too many people in one spot....like a flash mob? People walking into traffic? What hassle? It's a virtual game with NOTHING real to find,hide. Just some people walking around staring at their phones. What's the hassle?
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In a matter of days, people using this app have caused all sorts of problems. Arlington National Cemetery has asked people to refrain from doing it on their grounds. Storekeepers are putting signs in store windows telling players to stay away. The police are raising red flags about safety because of people walking into traffic.
Geocachers would be well advised to create as much distance from this insipid nonsense as possible. It is a trainwreck and exactly what we have worked diligently for years to avoid.
Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious.
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Fortunately the "parking lot sticker defacement game" places most of their pieces in areas I have no interest in looking for a geocache in, so I rarely see a problem.
I know a woman who likes to find those stickers. She went to the states on holiday and found herself in a large parking lot at 2am going from sign to lampost, scanning all the stickers. I can't understand what she got out of it. She's driven around town here and pulled over at every signpost to put a sticker on it. Hundreds of times. Not surprisingly, almost nobody is looking for them.
Oh, and you get Souvenirs...
They're Badges to be clear. No Souv's in that game.....just Badges.
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
I kept saying the same thing and they brought them in anyways. LOL
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Fortunately the "parking lot sticker defacement game" places most of their pieces in areas I have no interest in looking for a geocache in, so I rarely see a problem.
I know a woman who likes to find those stickers. She went to the states on holiday and found herself in a large parking lot at 2am going from sign to lampost, scanning all the stickers. I can't understand what she got out of it. She's driven around town here and pulled over at every signpost to put a sticker on it. Hundreds of times. Not surprisingly, almost nobody is looking for them.
Oh, and you get Souvenirs...
They're Badges to be clear. No Souv's in that game.....just Badges.
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Sure, they are not as offensive as graffiti, but they are still stickers that are difficult to remove. If a sticker is placed on a public sign, then a city employee will have to spend time scraping it off. If a sticker is placed on a wall or a fence, then it disrupts the appearance of what the wall/fence owner intended. There are some cases where a tag is hung from a tree or something, so that's not as bad.
In my opinion, this Munzee game is annoying and disrepectful to public spaces. As far as searching for geocaches, they wouldn't bother me if the stickers aren't more specific than the coordinates.
And how much money is wasted on BOMB calls on harmless geocaches? I have seen more public defacing and private property damage and crushed plants in this game than I have seen in Munzee. Some of you people need to get a grip....geocaching isn't the only geo-location game out there.
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Why don't you just log the cache also and move on.
Go fix the cache and log a find on it and move on.
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I really doubt someone that was banned from a game is going to go out and pick up their game pieces.
Then they're a slob who left their garbage out in the woods. Being banned has nothing to do with it. That cache would lay there until the end of time because the CO is a slob, not because of anything Groundspeak did.
So now the containers will sit as litter until the containers break down and the contents just blow away in the wind.
See my response above. Banning someone does not automatically turn them from a responsible cache owner into a slob.
OK the reviewer idea was a horrible one.
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Looks like the Archival was due to the 30 day ban being upgraded.
Although I still wonder whether auto-archiving is a good idea since the containers will often still be in place.
Maybe TPTB should send out the area reviewer to pick up the trash that they archived. I'm sure the CO isn't going to pick them up. So TPTB locked them out and leave the trash in place to rot. Doesn't make sense to me.
The CO is banned from being a member of geocaching.com, not from being a cache owner. Does banning someone also cause memory loss so that they can't remember where they placed their own caches? If they are a responsible person, they'll go retrieve the cache.
I really doubt someone that was banned from a game is going to go out and pick up their game pieces. I realize there are other GPS games that hide containers as well and could post those caches on their sites but I doubt they would. I could be wrong though. So now the containers will sit as litter until the containers break down and the contents just blow away in the wind.
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When was the first intentional geo-art published? What's the oldest active geoart?
Since it's Veterans Day here's the newest geoart. Pretty cool design as well.
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There's a NO CLUE series down in the Antelope Valley area of California. Someone did a Monopoly Series in Arizona, which seems to be going away slowly. Also a Copyrighted Board Game Series in Marin County (Here's a hint, it has Boardwalk and Park Place) along some back roads.
The NO CLUE series started off as the CLUE series. Someone decided it would be funny to add the NO part.
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I help fix up every cache that I come across. Keeps the game fun for everyone and less hassles all the way around. Heck I'll even replace missing caches if I have a container with me. It's all about having fun.
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Looks like the Archival was due to the 30 day ban being upgraded.
Although I still wonder whether auto-archiving is a good idea since the containers will often still be in place.
Maybe TPTB should send out the area reviewer to pick up the trash that they archived. I'm sure the CO isn't going to pick them up. So TPTB locked them out and leave the trash in place to rot. Doesn't make sense to me.
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caches are located along a route called:
http://www.naturstyrelsen.dk/Naturoplevelser/Beskrivelser/Margueritruten/
Oh, good idea. That makes a lot of sense.
In my opinion it would make more sense to devote the caches to places of interest and offer individual cache descriptions from which one can learn what can be seen/visited where. The trail as it is rather creates the impression that finding many caches is much more important than anything else.
But that wasn't the plan here. The plan was to dump a bunch of caches to create a P.T. for the record books. So finding many caches is the point here and nothing else is important. Just smilies...a bunch of smilies
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Very impressive... and I'm certain that you have the record for # of caches placed in one day (and likely the longest power trail in existence). Even though I'll likely never get there to do this I would like to thank all of you for your imagination and the work it took to creat this. I am in awe!
That's the thing...it took them over a year to plan and place these caches. It's not like they placed and published all these caches on the same day. So, I would say this is a record of nothing. Maybe the longest worked on and delayed P.T. EVER!!!!!
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Am I the only one laughing at "Major Wank"...?
Nope. I thought it was funny too.
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Event owners will be invited to create lab caches instead.
Does someone know if this is the plan? And will they only be allowed at Megas?
According to the blog post they were available at the block party and will become available for mega events. Which means for those that don't have the luxury of living near Seattle or in a country which has enough cachers to create a mega event you're going to have to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to travel to a mega event in order to obtain the special icon.
But you have the special icon and maybe a new Souvi for a country or state you haven't cached in. How AWESOME would that be?
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Caching simplified:
Find 'em when you can.
Log 'em when you're able.
Don't stress over how self entitled folks feel you should play.
But thats too easy and we can't have a couple pages of material to read about logging caches for FTF and laughing while reading.
I like caching simplified. 
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Buy a spare battery(thats what I did for another game that uses a smartphone to play
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I have found many caches before they got published. Almost all but one or two were because they were on power trails and some got published but the remainder hadn't been by the time I went to go find them. In these cases the caches were fairly uniform and hidden in similar manners, so you knew what you were looking for and how far apart the caches were (tubes hidden on high way delineater posts).
I was with a group when we did the same thing. We found out where the trail was going to start and we spread out and started looking. Once we found the first one we marked the cache and headed out every .10 and found 135 unpublished caches for FTFs. One of the best times I've had caching. My daughter(7 at the time) was making fake hiding spots with rocks for the cachers behind us. Hey she was having fun making piles til we found the cache and moved on to the next one. Those same cachers still tease me when they see us. All in good fun.
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I always wear sunglasses when I'm outside, so I have them on when caching. My shades have saved my eyes a couple times. Guess I don't need any safety glasses.
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ahhh that games oddDuring a recent meet a few people went to find a local cache, I decided to go with. On the way back we stopped at a second location. I think it was a sticker with a barcode, and everyone scanned it with their phones. Is this another geocaching game? sorry if this is a dumb question!
Kinda like finding tupperware in bushes isn't odd.
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I'd move the hide to a suitable spot nearby, but not near the den.
I wouldn't leave it there knowing that others may get hurt in the attempt, unlike a tree or climbing hide where cachers are aware of the danger and bring equipment to get it.
With so many saying they use GSAK and rarely read cache pages anymore, that's really the only safe thing to do.
I really don't think moving the hide will do anything. Snakes travel and find different areas to nest. The only safe thing you can do is pay ATTENTION to where you are going and where you place your hands. Never stick your hand where you can't see or you will learn the hard way and hope it's not a rattlesnake that bites you.
I've ran into MANY rattlesnakes on the trail. 3 in one day was enough to call our hike quits one time. I'm just thankful that most of the time the snake will rattle to let you know they are there. Mojave Greens are the bad boy of this species, they will come after you.
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I'm in Southern California. Come on down, I like new friends. I'm close to the California Speedway.
One of these days i will make it that far west. if i do, ill do my best to remember to look ya up.
Sounds good. Good luck on meeting new people. I've met some really cool people playing this game and hope you do as well.
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So be safe out there and keep your eyes on the trail and not your GPSr.
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Maybe it was the way you were blowing things WAY out of proportion. But then again you were getting your info from the news and they NEVER do that
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