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I hope so - I want that feature, too. Basically s just an 'Ignore' log which acts on the database like a Find log, except it dosn't show online, doesn't add to your count, and doesn't trigger a message to the owner.

I thought maps were regenerated daily at 7 pm... That time has passed twice, and no checkmarks are visible yet. It's a constantly recurring problem. Four days, no updates yet. New caches are also not showing.

Yes, and I think that's part of the problem. Couldn't numbers be made invisible to cachers other then oneself? I'd still like to look in other cachers profile and see WHAT they hid and found, but there's no need for those numbers appearing next to people's names. I'd like numbers to become a private matter. And as to forum posting numbers - I'd like those to disappear altogether. Listening to all those here who care about numbers, or make a fuss about them while saying they actually don't care, I'm afraid I'm in the minority on these two issues, though.

This in some cases is not realistic. Some circumstances, lighting conditions (or just some of us) just can't take good pictures. Just browse though a number of the pics that are currently submitted to any locationless cache and most of the coordinates are unreadable. My suggestion was a solution for a locationless cache owner who had a problem. If a cache-owner cares about cheaters, he may want to make it very clear what kind of picture he expects. That's much better than deleting pictures on the basis of some unspecified criteria after a cache is already logged. Cache owners can require whatever they want. You don't have to hunt or log a cache if you cannot meet the requirements.

Instead of deciding who is a faker and who isn't, wouldn't it be much easier if the cache owners required that the coordinates and the time be legible on the GPS screen, and that if those cannot be provided on the same screen, two different "screen shots" will be required?

I'm NOT gonna go there.....this post has already had some trickle-down effect. In other words, the folks that need to know about this, are watching. And, as much as some previous readers really want to know names and numbers....I'll not go there either. Not that I disagree with Briansnat and all the others - I couldn't have phrased it better - but I feel that approvers are the obvious road to address such issues. Forums are not meant for mob action, IMO - and I am saying this as someone who is agreement with the mob, here.

GeoCoin collecting seems to be a growing part of geocaching as a whole. Is this something we want to support, though? I mean: collecting TBs is frowned upon, because they're released with a specific purpose. Is this different for geocoins? Does this mean I shouldn't circulate geocoins with specific missions, and only use them as special FTF prizes, etc.? So far, I have passed on any coin that I found. If collecing coins is OK, perhaps I should stop doing that.

Bump. I thought maps were regenerated daily at 7 pm... That time has passed twice, and no checkmarks are visible yet. It's a constantly recurring problem.

I suggest that things be left just as they are. No flowers, no automated reminders, no health inspections, nothing. If a cache has a big number of DNFs, a potential finder may himself take the initiative of writing to the owner and ask about the status, and then decides whether he wants to risk his time. Also, I suggest that people be a little bit more proactive with SBAs. They are a flag to future seekers, they get the attention of the owner, AND of the local approver, who will take a look and decide on a case by case basis whether something should be done. Examples for different responses to my SBAs: Cache was archived immediately Archival pending, Note sent to the owner Note was sent to the owner, cache archived when no response was received and the probability of geolitter was ruled out Cache archived after owner confirmed that the container was missing; later unarchived when the container was replaced Cache in bad shape; SBA followed up by approver's request that the container be removed by the next finder. After that happened, archival followed This way, we can all help weed out the dead ones.

Thanks, John, and Dick, Megan and MA! It was # 700 alright, but it's not about the numbers

This cache is 80.9 miles from the coordinates you gave. This one is 113.4 miles from the epicenter, and there are 6 more on this island, mostly placed by people living nearby (as opposed to the one in my previous post, which appears to be a vacation cache).

This cache is 80.9 miles from the coordinates you gave.

Does that mean we're going to get more leap years?

C'mon. Membership for a whole year costs about as much as a tank of gas. Someone who can afford a GPS, not to mention afford driving an SUV, and who is using the site's features for free, is a parasite. I can imagine many explanations. The only valid one is not being able to pay, for some technical reason, from outside the US.

I'm taking that back. It isn't true for most recently approved caches, but nevertheles for quite a few. In addition to the one I mentioned before, there is one Here and here and here , and there are 8 more caches I can see in Washington and Oregon alone.

It's not a unique "feature". It is true for most caches that were approved today. Here's another one, near me: This one Also: there are no red check marks on recently found or owned caches on the maps (that's not new, I have been omplaining about that on and off) But also" there are no red checkmarks for recently found caches in the 'nearest caches' lists anywhere, And also: the dates on which caches were found are not updated in the right-hand column, neither when I'm the finder, nor when it's someone else, and not even when a cache is found by several people today.

Never mind.

That's what I do now. My wish was to make that unnecessary, to make that the default option.

Would it be hard to let the log window appear on a separate page by default? I like to toggle back and forth while writing my logs... Thanks!

FWIW, my finds since December 19 still have no checkmarks. The problem keeps recurring.

You're right, I've rewritten my posting at that point over and over and ended up slightly wrong ... ;-( However, I think you shouldn't be as harsh as you have been to people making mistakes in foreign languages. I'm glad that nobody is pointing out all the mistakes I'm doiing even in my german postings... ;-) Greetings & merry christmas, Tobias Hi Tobsas, I'm not being harsh at all - I greatly admire anyone who tries his luck with foreign languages, and particularly here in the US that is rather exceptional. That said, I can't help having a laugh at an obviously clueless nitwit who thinks he knows it better, even when everyone tells him he's got it wrong. Merry Christmas and a caching new year, Daniel

Yes. People making an a** of themselves are likely to get me. Well, anyway, I'm glad to hear that the notions you've been broadcasting were meant for baiting purposes only, and that you're not really as stupid as you allowed yourself to come across.

DO YOU THINK I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT? There a few things that I never do. 1. Correct my wife on her perfect German. 2. Talk to her in the morning unless she has had her morning cup of STOUT coffee. To be brief: Yes. Now, will ya please, after she'll be done with her stout coffee, ask her to confirm your notion about German grammar, and then report back to us? (And until then, just shut up about things you don't understand?) I think Divine went out of his way to explain it to you on a 1st grade level. In case you missed them, he added three links at the bottom of his post, which you may want to reflect on. Silently.

Wrong At least two other people more knowledgeable than you have already explained to you why, so there's no need for me to repeat. Precisely because it's 'der' (rather than 'das') Travelbug in my opinion too, 'meines Travelbugs' (masculine singular genitive) in my translation was correct. The amazing thing is that in spite of your limited understanding of German, you are so cocksure that you'd probably even 'correct' the doubtlessly fluent German of your German-native wife. You're a hoot!

Hi Tobias, I was obviously serious, but I believe he was too. hihi Ok I did not know a travel bug was considered a Das? I thought is would be a masculine Der. It sounds kind of funny meines Travelbugs? IMO you can use what you would like as "Travelbug" is formaly no german word. However, I never heard "die TB" but both "der TB" and "das TB". In the german subforum this question is addressed in this thread but I disagree with the reference to the Duden as the meanings in the Duden don't refer to the Travelbug but to Computer-bugs and a river somewhere in the east of europe. I already heard and used both "der" and "das" to adress a TB and if you use "das" then "meines Travelbugs" is totaly correct as the "Genitiv". Like Hogarth, I was actually thinking of Travelbug as a masculine noun, but regardless whether it's der or das Travelbug, it would end up as "meines Travelbugs" in the genitive. "Meines Travlebugs" is one TB. That's the so called "Genitiv", second casus. "zumindesten" is, AFAIK, no german word in contrast to "zumindest". Of course not Did Laogai say that? FWIW, I first wrote 'diese', and only thought of changing it to 'jene' when I reread it. 'Jene' clearly refers to Ireland, whereas 'diese', while not outright wrong, sort-of implies that a specific direction, as opposed to a specific destination, had been previously mentioned. But that's indeed a very fine distinction which I cannot substantiate on the basis of grammar books, merely on intuition based on many years of immersion.