simpjkee
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I made the previous two posts to illustrate the kind of cruft that is spewed, probably just to increase a post count.
It is not a score.
I'd like to see the post count hidden altogether and then we might not see as much of that type of thing.
Aside from your suggestion of removing the post count alltogether....You do bring up an interesting point.... If off topic posts counted, we would see those kinds of posts in the off topic forum where they belong and not in the other forums that are for 'real' messages.
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How can you be against Off Topic posts counting??? C'mon frinklabs!! I need your support!!!
I was unclear -- I was against ALL posts counting.
Sorry about that.
Wat?!?! Thats blasphemy!
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How can you be against Off Topic posts counting??? C'mon frinklabs!! I need your support!!!
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Yesterday I hiked 3.5 miles one way to a cache that was right on the side of a road for off highway vehicles. Thats the life of a geocacher who drives a street car.
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I want my numbers!!!!!!
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I'd like to see an update in forum software. I frequent another forum that uses the latest Xenforo software. Here's a list of the benefits:
- The ability to tag someone in a post. If I'm referencing another user in a post I can tag them and they will get a notification that they hhave been tagged. For example if I'm posting in the Southwest forum and talking about hiking to some caches over the weekend I could write "went caching with @JohnDoe in the desert". Then JohnDoe will get notified that he is referenced in a thread and be given a link.
- The ability to rate a post. The forum I use offers 6 ratings: like, agree, funny, informative, friendly, and useful. Then if someone posts something that I agree with totally I won't feel the urge to quote their post and add '+1'. Instead, I can just rate it as agree. If a post has been rated, the rating will show up along the bottom of the post below the signature.
- With the previous two bullet points, I'd want more notifications. Right now I have a notification set to notify me if my post is quoted. I'd want a notification if someone tagged me or rated my post as agree or whatever.
- Forum keeps track of what I've read. For example, if I click on a thread with 6 posts in it, the forum will keep track of that. The next day when I click on the same thread I will be sent straight to post 7 and be shown a little tag that posts 7 and over are new (to me).
There are more benefits such as trophies and forum arcade, but those are just for fun and don't necessarily improve the forum experience.
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I'd like my posts in the Off Topic forum to count towards my post count that is shown below my username to the left of my message. The current number of posts listed for my account is inaccurate without the inclusion of the number of off topic posts I've made.
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11. Not all interactions with your cache are documented in online logs so don't rely on online logs to tell the whole story of your cache. Cache visits are DNF'd but never logged. Caches can be found by muggles and never logged online. Caches can be found by muggles right after the muggles saw a cacher find the cache. Animals may have 'found' the cache. If a cache is 'not replaced correctly' you can not assume it was because the last person to log a find was careless. My brother has visited caches with me and subsequently visited them again without me, but since he has no account... he posts no logs.
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Congratulations! Glad you had a good time. 19 is a lot! I got 2 on my first day.
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well some challenges do actually measure finds pr distance pr date
those offcourse must be found by the SAME person or team members must be at the same location,
you can not for THOSE special few, split up and log finds at different locations at the same time..
but if you just stay away from those few secial challenges, you will be fine.
Does the cache page say that the finds have to be found by the same person or is it the assumption of the reader that that is the case? I would think it would be hard for the CO to know what individual of the team was present at each of the cache sites.
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There are some cachers that will delete your finds as fake if they notice finds in 2 different countries on the same day. Others will insist you are cheating. Although it doesn't appear that you are intentionally trying to boost your stats, even if you were, I don't know how it affects anyone else, or how it's anyone's business. If the numbers really don't matter, I don't know why they would care.
Remember, as long as your signature is on every log, you may still be eligible for Puritan status.
Wont be me deleting any logs. I know a guy (single account)that found a cache here and flew to Europe and found a cache over there in one day. Hard to do it when there is plenty of layovers and its the next day when you are over there. Yes, I find it in the gray line.
To take this back on topic...can a couple log caches from different part of the world? Yes, in a heartbeat because they are having fun but really it does mess up their stats page. (your stats is really more public via another site)
It doesn't 'mess up their stats page'. The account is shared by two people. One finds a cache in Arizona. The other finds a cache in Singapore. The account found a cache in AZ and Singapore on the same day. The stats will accurately reflect that, because that is what happened.
Yes it does, the most miles in one day. We can agree to disagree here. (there is are stats pages out there that isnt part of GS) The total distance between caches does get mess up as well. Its count the miles between caches in the order of the way you log them. If you log one today in Arizona and the next day in Singapore and so on, it counts all the miles between the all the caches and make it looks like you are a "world traveler" when you aren't. I am not against accounts that are shared by two people, it just make it looks like something that isnt there. I got a habit of looking at other people stats page to get a good idea what kind of cacher they are.
The top two cachers in the world in finds is a join account as well. The 3rd top finder is a single account and I admire him more than the join couple accounts. Its many time harder that way. (I am not talking about team finds to do powertrails and etc)
Sounds like you and the non GS stats website you're referring to have a preconceived assumption that an account represents the caching behavior of a single person. Thats a false assumption.
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There are some cachers that will delete your finds as fake if they notice finds in 2 different countries on the same day. Others will insist you are cheating. Although it doesn't appear that you are intentionally trying to boost your stats, even if you were, I don't know how it affects anyone else, or how it's anyone's business. If the numbers really don't matter, I don't know why they would care.
Remember, as long as your signature is on every log, you may still be eligible for Puritan status.
Wont be me deleting any logs. I know a guy (single account)that found a cache here and flew to Europe and found a cache over there in one day. Hard to do it when there is plenty of layovers and its the next day when you are over there. Yes, I find it in the gray line.
To take this back on topic...can a couple log caches from different part of the world? Yes, in a heartbeat because they are having fun but really it does mess up their stats page. (your stats is really more public via another site)
It doesn't 'mess up their stats page'. The account is shared by two people. One finds a cache in Arizona. The other finds a cache in Singapore. The account found a cache in AZ and Singapore on the same day. The stats will accurately reflect that, because that is what happened.
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Its ok to a point, but it really mess up some part of the static page. Like the most miles in one day challenge cache and etc which make some CO grain their teeth because they arent playing it "fair"..
edit to add.. or the most states in a day or the most countries in a day or the most counties in a day. People that work HARD to do it as a single account might not like it when a couple "beat" them by doing it in two different area.
I am not totally against team account, its just that when it comes to reading the static page and I wonder if they were "cheating" the system.
I think thats the fault of the CO for not clarifying what the challenge is. It's not the cacher who is not playing 'fair'.
Its too hard to enforce it since not all team account do that. If I was a CO of just challenges, I would let it go and "LAUGH" at them behind their back. I just got home from an east coast trip and ranked up 5 states in one day. Yes, thats plenty of states but they were "small" states and easy to do if you start at the state line. If a couple account did 5 states in a day, I will be double checking to see if they did it "together" and not apart.
I understand its just a game, but the fine line is this, if they(couple) start up bragging about how many miles, states, countries, counties, caches-per-day or whatnot they did in a day, it will be silly since they are taking it to a serious level of the game. If a couple is just having fun, no problem, but if they start challenging others and brag how they "beat" you in so so challenges, I will be laughing at you. (yes, I did laugh at a couple once behind their back)
Yes, I put couple account and single account players in to two different catalogs when it comes to bragging rights.
...and the fact that it is too hard to enforce it is why these challenges are silly, IMO. Until there is a singular governing body that puts everyone on a level playing field with the same rules and stuff, these challenges will continue to be silly. The fact is that every single cacher/account is playing by their own rules. We're just all doing it on the same field at the same time. You have your rules and play your game. I have my rules and play my game. The OP will decide what their rules will be and then play their game. If you're a challenge cache owner, I suggest creating qualifications for each cacher/account. If not, there will surely be a cacher/account that qualifies the 'unfair' way
Either way, as some of the challenge cache owners abandon their challenge caches, the floodgates will open and they'll be getting logged like the virtuals that are getting arm chair logged to death.
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The fact is that Geocaching is getting to old and this requirement need to be reconsidered, otherwise it will convert to a simple "go, find and log" game and no challenge will be fair to all cachers.
A simple 'go find and log' game is enough for me. It doesn't sound bad at all. I don't need challenges to make the game exciting.
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GPS
in How do I...?
Now I'm TOTATLY confused do I even need a separate GPS I was just reading about how to use your smart phone as a back country GPS so cell coverage is not a issue ? But does it work as good as a dedicated GPS device
Check this thread out: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=305204
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Its ok to a point, but it really mess up some part of the static page. Like the most miles in one day challenge cache and etc which make some CO grain their teeth because they arent playing it "fair"..
edit to add.. or the most states in a day or the most countries in a day or the most counties in a day. People that work HARD to do it as a single account might not like it when a couple "beat" them by doing it in two different area.
I am not totally against team account, its just that when it comes to reading the static page and I wonder if they were "cheating" the system.
I think thats the fault of the CO for not clarifying what the challenge is. It's not the cacher who is not playing 'fair'.
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- The brat's now logging our found 4+ hides on it to keep her terrain rating high (making sure her "other" sig is on the log).
Unfair! Thats cheating!
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Hmm
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I DNF'd my first LPC. Honestly, I could have easily DNF'd many more, but the second one I went to was broken and I could see the cache inside the skirt. After that I remembered the lamp post skirt at the one I DNF'd a couple nights before and sho nuff there it was! I couldn't believe it! I definitely had no clue those could be lifted either.
Glad the OP found it. Congratulations!
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GPS
in How do I...?
I've got a Garmin Oregon 450t for Christmas and its flawless.
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I don't think 'fairness' really applies here. If you and your husband want to log your individuals finds under a team account please feel free. Your doing so doesn't affect the 'fairness' of the game to anyone else. Your account is yours (and your husbands) alone...you two decide the best way to use it.
For me personally, I like to have my own account for my own finds. If I were to marry someone who became a cacher, I'd prefer she get her own account so I wouldn't see finds on my account that I haven't actually found.
note that I've never been married or had a 'teammate' of sorts so I've never run in to this kind of problem
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Log your find on the old cache (as you have already done so). Find the new cache and then log your find on the new cache.
I know a cache that has rwecently been going the exact opposite. A new cache has been listed in the same spot as a now archived cache. People are finding and logging the new cache as found AND logging the archived cache as found. That's their business, but I don't play that way.
There is one nearby where the CO moved and archived the cache, but did not remove it. New cache, new CO, same location, has the old cache and log inside it. Some people are logging both.
Don't know what to think about his one...
In simpjkee's rules of geocaching (which apply only to simpjkee) that is one find and one smiley on the new cache. If I hadn't previously logged the old one while it was active, I've missed my chance.
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Log your find on the old cache (as you have already done so). Find the new cache and then log your find on the new cache.
I know a cache that has rwecently been going the exact opposite. A new cache has been listed in the same spot as a now archived cache. People are finding and logging the new cache as found AND logging the archived cache as found. That's their business, but I don't play that way.
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I believe that on any given puzzle cache only half of the smileys are from people who actually completed the puzzle. Seems the cache the OP is referring too is on par to me.
And the other half that "found" it probably went to the coordinates listed and threw one down because the original was missing.
That may be a good reason to put the bogus coordinates in the middle of a lake or some other location that isn't accessible.
However I find your implication that if you didn't use the coordinate checker you didn't solve the puzzle insulting. When I started geocaching there were no coordinate checker sites and when you solved the puzzle if you were certain enough that you had the correct solution you'd go and look for it. (Otherwise you might email the owner to verify your answer). Since checkers are not required, this is still true for many puzzles. However, I have solved puzzle and being quite sure that my answer is correct, I have gone and found the cache without using the checker. I believe that I even have a few FTFs this way.
If you're referring to my implication.....That's not what I was implying. I'm implying that on any given puzzle cache only half of the smileys are from people who actually completed the puzzle....regardless of the use or non use of the geochecker.
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Never had someone stumble upon a cache of mine (and not throw it away) that I know of. I only really talk to people about geocaching if they start pressing me to tell them what I like to do. Then at a gathering they'll suggest that I explain it to someone else and I get all shy and wish they hadn't put me on the spot. Not surprisingly, I haven't converted anyone in to being a cacher (that I know of). I do know a guy who I think would really like the game though so I bring it up with him every once in a while, but he's not biting.
Republishing identical caches
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Last night, I found 5 caches that were identical, but just relisted. It's a cache so I'll find it, but is it really necessary? I don't think so. I wouldn't do it.