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    The curious case of the 20 Finds... just so you can Hide your own caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by RuideAlmeida

    1 minute ago, cerberus1 said:

     

    Odd that this is a recent thing where you are, we've realized this hobby became a game since phone apps ...     

    Games need "points", and he with the most points wins.    :)

    By your terrain, looking to check could be a real pain-in-the-can.  I can simply drive by and spot mine (with binoculars).

    Some you can tell in wording they never found it, others ...not so much, so you can't just zap everyone.

    If me, I'd probably bulk-delete with no explanation (they know they didn't find it...) when it's time for maintenance.

    Odds are most of those deleted aren't even in the hobby anymore by then...

    I have two five-Terrain caches I'd like to do maintenance on when I'm capable (soon I hope...), and already know that a few are fakers that'll be deleted at that time.  Luckily both are checked by others to still be there in good shape....

     

     

    I'm concerned with this new "trend" that a newbie needs to find at least 20 caches, forcing them to cheat... not the old story of simply fake Found It logs.

    Sorry if I was not clear on the matter.

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    The curious case of the 20 Finds... just so you can Hide your own caches

    in General geocaching topics

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    7 minutes ago, baer2006 said:

    The problem with fake finds on remote caches exists not only in Brazil. Browse the cache map, and pick a random rural cache in an "exotic" part of the planet, where geocaching is essentially non-existing (e.g. large parts of Africa). If the cache has finds, then chances are good that most of them are almost certainly fakes.

    I don't think there is a technological solution to this (geofencing, whatever ...). IMHO the most important part in the equation are the cache owners. If someone place a cache in a remote place, they should at least care that the listing doesn't accumulate finds, which are most likely fakes. You don't need to check the physical logbook - just ask a polite question (as the OP has said), and if there is no response (or the fake log is outright admitted), delete the log.

     

     

    I'm concerned with this new "trend" that a newbie needs to find at least 20 caches, forcing them to cheat... not the old story of simply fake Found It logs.

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    The curious case of the 20 Finds... just so you can Hide your own caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by RuideAlmeida

    Living in a huge country with not that many caches, means that I can have them all in Watchlist. Considering that, is really easy to be alerted by sudden Found It logs all over Brazil... especially here in the Amazon basin, where it is almost impossible to travel between state capitals... in a single day. Sometimes even in different south American countries and in other continents.

    When some of those caches are mine, is even easier to verify that it is nothing but fake Founds.

    Usually I send a respectful message to these geocachers, stating my "admiration" to such feats.

    In the good old days, most of the times, they blamed on their little children getting hold of their smartphones, and simply apologize.

     

    Nevertheless, lately arised a new reason. They heard somehow and somewhere that it is needed to Found at least 20 caches to be able to Hide the first one.

     

    Suddenly they answer my messages like this:

    "Look I’m just a kid that wants to hide one so let me be."

    "Ok I just wanted to hide a cache but I’m still trying to find the location that I’m going to put it so I just wanted to hide one so I “found” 20 caches."

    "I do not care." :)

     

    I always reply saying that they don't need to find any specific amount of caches, but even if they feel that they do, at least don't cheat by claiming false Founds.

    The immediate consequence of this in a country with many faraway caches waiting (real) FTFs, is the idea that is useless to look for them, as soon another of these fake logs arrive.

    I think that something should be done to address this false claims. But what?

     

    I'm concerned with this new "trend" that a newbie needs to find at least 20 caches, forcing them to cheat... not the old story of simply fake Found It logs.

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    Introduce Yourself

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    14 hours ago, GunsandGlitter said:

    Hi, we're new to geocaching where is the best place to get all the tips and tricks we need to be successful?

     

    Be welcome, family!

    The best way (apart from this forum) would be to attend any nearby Event.

    NOVAS CACHES NO BRASIL

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    BOAS CACHADAS!

    Error message Geocaching.com via Safari

    in Website

    Posted

    2 hours ago, RCH65 said:

     

    • There were no scripts running on my side... I even deactivated Tampermonkey to be sure...
    • The problem comes... the problem goes... (and comes back again) without any changes (on my side). 
    • If European providers block geocaching.com traffic, you couldn't just switch between browsers - and the problems would occur all over the site
    • I have the strong feeling that this is caused by some faulty data caching somewhere between 'you' and 'me' - and that the problem is somehow related to performance issues. This is why it comes and goes...

     

    My answer was related to other thread, that later was merged with this one... only about not been able to run the website on an iPad. :)

    Error message Geocaching.com via Safari

    in Website

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    On 5/14/2022 at 9:18 PM, Jubatus_Acinonyx said:

    It is impossible to browse your website on an iPad, using any browser.

     

    Not a single problem... with Safari on an Air 4 with iOS 15.5.

    Maybe the problem is not the website, but some other software you have running, I guess... and some providers used to block geocaching.com in Germany, by instance... who knows also in Belgium?!

    Good luck!

     

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