Hemlock

As this website is a direct competitor of Wherigo, Groundspeak would rather that you not use its forums to promote it. Thank you for your understanding. I'm closing this thread.

As the OP just appears to just be reviewer-bashing AND selection of reviewers is not done in the forums, I'm closing this thread. Besides, they already doubled my pay. Twice

It looks like a great cache and should be published once permission is obtained and proven. Hi Puppymonster!

It was hidden back in September and disabled because it's too close to another cache in the park.

Moving back to the general forum. I think Quiggle lost something in the separation

I've only managed 4 FTFs since I started reviewing 4 years ago. The most fun I've had on an "almost FTF" was one that I reviewed at work at the end of the day. It was about 2 miles from the office, in a location I was very familiar with. I hit the Publish button, then shut down my laptop and packed it in its case. I stopped by the restroom, walked to the lobby, entered the alarm code to activate it, and walked to my car. I arrived at the cache site about 8 minutes after it was published. There was a crowd of a dozen cachers standing in the parking lot. They had already found the cache and returned it to its hiding place and watched and laughed at me as I searched for it. One of them was sitting in that very parking lot, 100 feet from the cache, when she got the Insta-notify on her phone. Most of the others were driving home when they got the notify. Another time I stopped at a drive-thru on the way to the cache. I arrived and no one was there so I thought I was FTF. I opened the log to find 2 others had already been there just minutes before (the logs included the time). Two of the actual FTFs were on caches hundreds of miles from home, weeks after they were published. One of those was a 3.5 star difficulty that had 3 DNFs before me and I was the first one to actually find it.

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And every one of them has claimed to be Hemlock at some point in time. Even mtn-man. I'm Hemlock!

OK, we got the thread into the right forum now. Directions to cancel your membership are here. But if there is a technical reason why you can't transfer waypoints, maybe you can explain the problem here and maybe we can help

I just tried it with my reviewer account. It's definitely broken for me too.

I also had a situation similar to palmetto's. The kicker is it was two newbie cachers each hiding their first cache. IIRC the GC numbers were only 3 digits apart. From what I could tell, there was no connection between the two cachers. Just simple luck in choosing two locations in the same park, about 250 feet apart. I elected to make an exception and publish both caches, not wanting to turn off either newbie. I also figured as newbie hides, attrition would take care of one or both soon. Well you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. It only took 4 hours and someone from 400 miles away in Southern California was emailing me and Groundspeak to complain that these caches were published too close to each other. Thankfully Groundspeak agreed with my reasoning. I wish I could remember what caches these were. I'm curious if either or both are still active.

pathfynder, As a result of this thread I took a look at your latest submissions and I see you used several caches in my area as justification for your new cache series. First, let me point you to the 3rd paragraph in the guidelines. The caches you cite are pretty old, at least two revisions of the guidelines old. I am the reviewer that published 3 of the 4 series you mentioned and I would not publish them today because they do not meet the current version of the guidelines. So asking for another reviewer won't accomplish what you want. I recommend working with your reviewer, within the current guidelines.

This is one of the most offensive posts I have ever seen on these forums Everyone I've talked to here in NorCal has no issue with a reviewer going for FTF after the cache is published but I would never, ever, even consider finding it before it's published. Nor would I tell anyone about it. After all, if cachers have an Insta-Notify set up, they know about the cache within a few seconds of publication anyways, so I have no real advantage. Heck, I showed up at a cache within 12 minutes of publication last week, and 8 cachers were already there had signed the log, replaced the cache, and they stood around and watched me search for it. Then we all went to dinner together That said, there have been a handful of times I've physically visited the general area of a cache before publication, because there were some serious questions about property ownership or proximity, but I didn't bother to actually find the cache or log it. I do remember a particular time that a cache had several finders before publication, but when I asked one of them about it, he said the owner called him and gave out the coords. Geocaching.com is just a listing service, and not the only way to publicize a cache

Six active threads for the San Diego area is enough. Closing this one.

I think with six active threads in these forums with various titles that include "San Diego" that you can find the info you need without another thread. Closing this one.

I think with six active threads in these forums with various titles that include "San Diego" that you can find the info you need without another thread. Closing this one.

No. This is intentional to distinguish from a "needs archived" log.

I have a Groundspeak Volunteer coin that I'd like to trade for a Moun10bike version 1 coin BTW, the speculation above is correct. Just like all Moun10bike coins are "owned" by Moun10bike, all Volunteer coins will be owned by a volunteer.

If it's anything beyond a one-time sale, like if you're selling t-shirts or other swag, you need to get permission from Groundspeak to advertise it. Looking through the threads on the first page of posts in this section, I see at least two threads that do have explicit permission. So don't be afraid to ask. It's not that Groundspeak is entirely against advertising, they just want to control who gets free advertising on their site. Edit to add don't ask me or post here asking for permission to post Send an email to contact at Groundspeak dot com.

Looks like we're getting close to seeing Godwin's Law in play here Back on topic, please, folks. Leave the politics out of it. Thanks

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A pinned thread with links to commercial websites. You new here or something?

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