Trail Blaisers

I made this a new discussion thread, but Isonzo Karst notified me of this one (thanks). Geesh, I had no idea this has been an identified challenge since 2011. And little to no action has ever been taken. As predicted by many back then the situation has only gotten worse in terms of the number of missing trackables still on cache pages. Advising COs and trackable owners has had little to no effect. Unfortunately, the situation is just a joke but the only thing laughable is the recent newsletter email from Groundspeak that touted more than 2 million trackables in circulation. Most of these are gone! My original post is as follows, but there are many great (and somewhat softer) approaches that have been noted which I would be fine to see. Just do something! Given the authority, I would be happy to volunteer hours to mark TBs and GCs as missing after first giving the owners a chance to do it themselves (just like a cache). [original post] Moving trackables has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of geocaching since I joined in 2007. However, as has been mentioned over and over in these forums, the careless handling of trackables has become an epidemic which is truly unfortunate. There are still a good number in circulation, but I would say that at least 2/3 of caches that I visit does not have the trackable that is listed as being there. With a map full of icons that say there is a trackable it is an unpleasant task to try and weed them out. I've been proactive to let both TB and GC owners as well as cache owners know they should mark their items as missing if it's been more than a year, but rarely get action. Without taking action, the 'litter' of missing trackables will only get worse. My question is, with the obvious exception of those that may be in a very lonely cache, can/should Groundspeak make a clean sweep and eliminate or mark missing any trackable that hasn't been moved in a given amount of time (say one or two years)?

I made this a new discussion thread, but Isonzo Karst notified me of this one (thanks). Geesh, I had no idea this has been an identified challenge since 2011. And little to no action has ever been taken. As predicted by many back then the situation has only gotten worse in terms of the number of missing trackables still on cache pages. Advising COs and trackable owners has had little to no effect. Unfortunately, the situation is just a joke but the only thing laughable is the recent newsletter email from Groundspeak that touted more than 2 million trackables in circulation. Most of these are gone! My original post is as follows, but there are many great (and somewhat softer) approaches that have been noted which I would be fine to see. Just do something! Given the authority, I would be happy to volunteer hours to mark TBs and GCs as missing after first giving the owners a chance to do it themselves (just like a cache). [original post] Moving trackables has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of geocaching since I joined in 2007. However, as has been mentioned over and over in these forums, the careless handling of trackables has become an epidemic which is truly unfortunate. There are still a good number in circulation, but I would say that at least 2/3 of caches that I visit does not have the trackable that is listed as being there. With a map full of icons that say there is a trackable it is an unpleasant task to try and weed them out. I've been proactive to let both TB and GC owners as well as cache owners know they should mark their items as missing if it's been more than a year, but rarely get action. Without taking action, the 'litter' of missing trackables will only get worse. My question is, with the obvious exception of those that may be in a very lonely cache, can/should Groundspeak make a clean sweep and eliminate or mark missing any trackable that hasn't been moved in a given amount of time (say one or two years)?

Moving trackables has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of geocaching since I joined in 2007. However, as has been mentioned over and over in these forums, the careless handling of trackables has become an epidemic which is truly unfortunate. There are still a good number in circulation, but I would say that at least 2/3 of caches that I visit does not have the trackable that is listed as being there. With a map full of icons that say there is a trackable it is an unpleasant task to try and weed them out. I've been proactive to let both TB and GC owners as well as cache owners know they should mark their items as missing if it's been more than a year, but rarely get action. Without taking action, the 'litter' of missing trackables will only get worse. My question is, with the obvious exception of those that may be in a very lonely cache, can/should Groundspeak make a clean sweep and eliminate or mark missing any trackable that hasn't been moved in a given amount of time (say one or two years)?

Well done! I hope you only had to try and post it once.

A BIG thank you for the fix.

I had a similar problem but it was resolved when a friend suggest that I delete all of the maps and reinstall them.