Every stage in lab cache counts as a found. This is actually problematic from plenty of reasons:
- Effortless. Comparing to other cache types it costs almost no effort to score a found. Most of lab cache are simple questions to answer.
- Unfair. You don't have points for every stage in other cache types. Also you don't need to log anything, do research, fulfil tasks, etc.
- Inhomogeneous. Has nothing to do with geocaching, except you're outdoors. Even earthcaches and virtual caches requires you to learn something, to research something, do some tasks. Lab caches? Nothing, simple question answering.
- Cheating. People builds databases with answers and using fake gps to earn cheap points.
And some more. Simply this is not a geocaching, it's an own game. And while I am enjoying doing lab caches I really dislike idea adding them to my total found statistics.
Please, reconsider it, do a compromise and allow to filter out lab caches from statistics for people who just don't want them to be added. So anybody who looks at my profile would see only cache founds without lab caches included. And please do not argue that I can delete them. I do not want to delete them, I just don't want them to be included in total found. This is a valid use case for lots of people. Many people either stopped doing lab caches, or even worse stopped playing geocaching. Please don't let this happen.