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Frank Broughton

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  1. Would that be new user TravelerHuntter? I've had 3 bugs logged twice today. 2 went missing in 2004 the other is my personal travel bug. All had just numbers for their IDs.

     

    He had 490 bug logs this morning now he is over 600. I did refresh his profile and the numbers went down. Looks like people are deleting his logs.

     

    Wonder why he would sit there for hours guessing numbers and posting false bug logs?

     

    Looks like he is enjoying it.... let it be! really does it matter?

  2. What do people think about logging an archived Virtual cache?

     

    I know a virtual that was recently archived. For some months, (during which time I visited the location), it was not possible to gather certain information required to log the cache and so it was archived. However, that situation will change, and the information will be available again.

     

    Thoughts?

     

    Have at it.... like it even matters.

  3. If cache owners do their job and delete fake logs what is the problem? Caches that don't get maintained should be archived. Their is no reason why webcams should not be allowed.

    Except that Groundspeak has determined that, with the exception of Earthcaches and events, geocaches listed on their site have a container and logbook. Sounds like a reason to me.

     

    Events have logbooks....

     

    Wow broke a record today, made it through 5 threads before the "pile oners" made me have a stomach ache....

  4. I know of at least 5 caches that are buried. I reported one of them to the reviewer and nothing was done about it. Should I bother to report any more?

     

    Edited to clarify what I meant by "buried." In each case a hole was obviously dug. In 3 cases the hole was shored up on 4 sides by wood and the container placed into the cavity and covered by another piece of wood and/or a large flat rock. In 2 cases the hole was made to fit a plastic container which was placed into it up to its neck/top, and then covered by some type of camo.

     

    You asked, here is the answer I will give. You have no idea if the co has permission to do as you described - move on! Or you may be one of those types that thrive on casuing drama and love controversy, if that be the case, you are on your own, I for one and sick up and fed of that type of person in this GAME. Not saying you are, just answering the question.

     

    BTW - I think anyone who reports anything in a game where adults hunt down plastic containers in all different kinds of areas is pretty petty. Move on....

  5. An excuse to go see places I have not seen before, to hike, in whatever weather, and a way to categorize all those places and spots I went to with maps and pictures and occasionally, find some cool cache containers to boot.

     

    My sentiments exactly. I love documenting the places I go to find a geocache with pictures. Love saving hiking tracks from my GPS of said. My BaseCamp software is FULL of info!

     

    I will add, I love placing geocaches for other people to find. I love trying to come up with places and ideas of hides that people will have no choice by say so in the log, no TFTC's.....

  6. This wouldn't happen so much if more CO's were more diligent about their responsibilities. Not only should they go out and remove any throwdowns they are made aware of, they should delete the bogus logs of the throwdown perpetrators. If this was done consistently, across the Geocaching world, the throwdown crowd would quit doing it when they realize their bogus logs won't stand.

     

    Agree..... it is not s simple case of they are just cheating and hurting themselves - briansnat said it best.

  7. Well, the word "demanded" was Nate's, not mine, and frankly, it puts me off, especially when so many good ideas are politely posted to the request forum and they don't even get acknowledged.

     

    Is there a special secret place where we can go to demand things, like a nano size or the ability to ignore a user's 450 placed, then neglected micros, with just a few clicks?

     

     

    I'd appreciate if you would quote me in context, in particular because I was careful to clarify my use of the word "demand" being in the "supply/demand" sense and not "I demand you do X or else". There is an appetite for finds that comes with attending an event. Organizers are responding to that appetite.

     

    Good job Nate, I like this concept much!

  8. I don't have any problem with the commercial aspect of the brewery tour. Remember this is "labs", a chance to try something new and different - something that wouldn't normally be allowed by the current guidelines. Besides, it's beer - beer! I'd be totally opposed to a candle store tour - that would be crossing the line. :D

     

    I'm looking forward to seeing what people will put out with this. Many of us have had thoughts of cool caches that we'd like to put out, but couldn't because of issues with cache permanence (90 days), worries about weathering, leaving an expensive item out for long in the wild, etc ..

     

    What cool things can people build?

     

    - some expensive electronic gizmo thingamabob that was itself a cache or led you to a cache, but you wouldn't want to leave out as a real cache for 90 days due to weather issues and cost issues.

     

    - a well constructed puzzle box (wooden, metal, ...) that would not be appropriate for leaving out in the woods

     

    - temporary moving caches, that move from person to person at an event

     

    - a cache where you have to go talk to various people at an event to collect clues to find the actual cache. If you watch Amazing Race there was an episode a couple seasons ago where the contestants had to find people walking with trench coats and briefcases in Washington DC and give some spy code-word to them and find the right "spy" who had a clue for them. This would be something cool to do at an event to find a cache, but wouldn't normally work.

     

    - caches involving NFC with phones, again where you have to find cachers at an event who have a clue on their phone you get via NFC

     

    - a "flash mob" cache, where you have to get 50 (or whatever) people with smart phones into a 50 ft (or whatever) circle before a web site will reveal coordinates to a cache. I'll have a puzzle cache doing this soon, but it will also make a good lab/event cache.

     

    - A scavenger hunt where you have to drive around a town/park/... to collect various clues and present them back to the event organizer before you are given cache coordinates

     

    - Night caches involving electronic blinkies, which are only good for a day or two

     

    Awesome awesome ideas there ChileHead! Love all of these you mentioned.

  9. The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

     

    Why fix something that isnt broken?

     

    Still spewing stuff from your toilet on the forums eh? I should send you the sign I have hanging next to my desk... and I being nice about this, it says, Lord, if I have nothing good to say, please help me keep my big mouth shut.

     

    I came back to the forums to looksie around and I hear the same smelly sock opinion of the crusty rusty grumpy gang.... ain't ya ll got anything better to do that tear this place down day after day?

     

    Please...............

  10. For a lot of us, the icons were not a simple matter of cosmetics, but usability. Now that I can change the icons, I'm finding that some of the designs are an improvement, while some are really bad, IMO. I'm able to get the mix that works with my eyes and for that I am grateful. Thank You.

     

    Sorry sir I disagree... a casual peruse of your posts show there is much more to it that that. You have been very negative around here for some time. Why so serious over a game? Maybe a break is in order. Not being a jerk, expressing an observation.

     

    Personal attacks are not allowed here.

     

    Hardly a personal attack...be serious. Some of you are downright outrageous with your words expressed towards GS, I point out that to someone and it is a personal attack?? I wish I could say something like grow (redacted) child, but then that would be a personal attack, so I will only say this: NO I am right, I just installed the GM script to pick icons, you have to be kidding me, there is hardly even a difference in almost all of them. The icons have NOTHING to do with making the site readible or not for any with bad eyes or color blindness, and for the record I have very bad eyes. The complaints are the sign of something else.... and that personified for some.

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    For a lot of us, the icons were not a simple matter of cosmetics, but usability. Now that I can change the icons, I'm finding that some of the designs are an improvement, while some are really bad, IMO. I'm able to get the mix that works with my eyes and for that I am grateful. Thank You.

     

    Sorry sir I disagree... a casual peruse of your posts show there is much more to it that that. You have been very negative around here for some time. Why so serious over a game? Maybe a break is in order. Not being a jerk, expressing an observation.

  12. To be fair, it's their website and their system.

    That's true. We are just the lowly customers... :unsure:

    Who cares what the customers think? dry.gif

     

    Really.... i hear ya Clan! BTW - Merry Christmas and thanks for your service to your community!

  13. :yikes:<(Boooooooooo.)

     

    Announce it properly next time. Any changes to the game should be beta tested and reviewed with a sample group. That's how games and improvements work. Not so sure this happened outside of the echo chamber in the office.

     

    That is all.

     

    Why so the PO's can create two trillion posts of complaining? Please....... over icons, what a joke this thread is. :ph34r:

  14. I guess color pixels are expensive these days.

     

    Let's put this into the "make better mistakes tomorrow" category.

     

    But, they didn't even accomplish that. They made a worse mistake.

     

    Wrong..... the changes are very practical & useful even!

  15. Up until this point, Geocaching.com has been using mostly generic icons provided in third-party icon libraries. With this update we are now using icons that have been developed in-house by our design team, with imagery that was developed with geocaching in mind and that better matches the actual purpose behind the associated function. For example, rather than using an orange traffic cone for "Archive listing," we now use a red file cabinet. That old traffic cone was also used for about 3 other functions as well (including unarchive), and now each of those functions uses its own unique icon.

     

    In addition, the coloring of the icons now follows a theme rather being all over the board. General actions are gray, while "positive" actions are green and "negative" actions are red. Blue is used for informative elements, such as ratings, notes from reviewers, directional arrows, et al.

     

    I think that the changes to the icons are good. Actually very well done. What should "stand out" now does. The thought process behind the new icons was well thought out. Good job GC!

     

    On a side note: I think that if you sent $50 cold cash to each of the "pile on'ers" they would find something to not like about it.

  16. For example, I have several ideas for virtuals where placing a container just distracts from what is really important. You can believe me that I know how to do multi and mystery caches and how to use offsets. If I want to implement an idea as a virtual, it is not because I'm too lazy to hide a container and to maintain it. My oldest cache is almost ten years old and I had to invest quite some work into it.

     

    Like a well designed Earthcaches is much better suited for teaching Earth science than a hide and seek game the same is true for many other fields. Waymarking is well suited for example to show others an interesting old ruin and hiding a container there with some offset (in order to avoid damages to the ruin) is well suited if one wants to appeal to those who enjoy the hide and seek process. If I want to teach others e.g. about the role of castle in the middle ages, neither posting a waymark nor hiding a container will be the ideal way to go.

     

    I agree that what I have in mind is a different activity than a hide and seek game. Still it is true that the old virtuals allowed to implement such ideas while neither waymarks nor challenges offer(ed) this possibility.

     

    The main issue for me is not whether a container can be placed, but rather whether I want to place a container to implement my idea. In some cases my answer is yes and in others it is no.

     

    Cezanne

     

    I strongly agree with this post. Virtuals done right can increase the quality of geocaching. I would love to be able to do as you suggested in your post Cezanne. Some times a container is just not practical.

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