mvigor

The most recent site changes fix an issue for me that's affected you in your time zone. Previously my finds of 2 days ago were showing up as "yesterday" until 2 p.m. The adjustment that fixed this issue for me has broken it for you.

Yeah, but it's going to take me 20 years of carrying it out one backpack at a time and melting it down at home before I get it all, so I can't say anything.

Those are way too cool to let go of for face value, if that's meant to be taken literally. Won't most people just keep them?

That's because the code is stored in the URL. It's the only way to populate the field with your tracking number in step one. I'm not sure I would consider this a bug. User clicks "Trackable Items". That takes him to http://www.geocaching.com/track/ In the area "Activate Trackable Item:" the user ignorantly enter the activation code because he doesn't know better. Say code is "Z1Z1Z1Z1" The user is then brought to http://www.geocaching.com/track/activate.a...trknum=Z1Z1Z1Z1 when he clicks the submit button. That page has two text entry inputs. "Enter your tracking number below" is prepopulated from the URL, so contains "Z1Z1Z1Z1". At this point the user realizes his mistake and moves the value "Z1Z1Z1Z1" down to "Enter your activation code below" and then changes the top input field to the tracking number. When the user clicks the submit button, the changes he made to the top input area are NOT USED (disregarded/discarded)...the value from the URL is retained instead. In other words, the top input area is just there to fool the user...changing it doesn't DO anything upon submission...the value from the first page sticks around. That's a bug in my book.

I noticed while activating a couple geocoins this week that if a person enters the activation code on the first screen instead of the reference number, and then corrects that mistake on the 2nd screen, the form is still holding the incorrect value somewhere and will not take your new entry from the form on the 2nd screen...it will insist on still using the activation code. You have to back out of the form and start over again.

That is the LAST THING I would ever, ever do. Sounds like a good way to kill yourself.

To the OP, I say post that photo you took in his cache gallery. It's not a spoiler, just an image of some of the swag.

Yes, I for one, upon seeing MY username in there, would take out the trash and leave swag in its place.

Just look at that list! Many of the people are towards the bottom of it due only to their large number of finds...yet they have hidden dozens, sometimes a hundred or more caches! I would say they have contributed!

I find that list incredibly rude. Right now at 16/1 I have 6.25%, but I can tell you that I plan on never maintaining more caches than I can count on both hands. So down the road when I've found 500 and only planted 10, I'll be down to 2% and if I make it to, say, 2000 finds, my percentage will be 0.5%. My point being that I *am* actively giving back, doing my small part. Those other caches are out there to be found...should I feel guilty going after them? Plus, I plan on hiding mainly ammo cans. I *could* order 20 nanos for $20 and stick them to everything magnetic in town, but I'm not going to. I wouldn't expect that printed sheet to last long inside that cache after the wrong person sees it.

Are any of you who are arguing here actually trying to do some good, or do you all just like sucking the fun out of the whole forum?

Exactly. Read the word "AND" in between all those things you have listed and visualize the list getting smaller each time you say one.

MREs with heaters are only about a pound per person.

What is the problem with somebody sweeping through your area and moving all the travelers out of town? That's the point of trackable items.

I hope everybody wishing for ammo can hides in this thread has hidden their own fair share of ammo can hides. Just sayin'...

Yes, I took a dozen new pencils and hacksawed them in half. I sharpened each short half and filled an old 200ct. pill bottle with three-inch pencils and tossed it in my backpack. I leave pencils now whenever I find a cache without and I also leave one when the cache only has a pen in anticipation of problems in freezing temperatures. At the size these pencils sharpen up to be, they can even be left in a magnetic key holder or a bison tube. Cost me two cents each to make.

YES YES YES There is no magic number.

I'm guessing that this person signed up for an automatically renewing payment plan for a premium membership. Perhaps they want to keep their account but ensure that no money is taken from their account on the renewal date???

Let's see... one hand on the camera, one hand holding swag and one hand on the metal detector. That's just about right. ???

One of the very first things the hide page says is that there is no precedent for getting your hide approved based on another existing cache.

I taught my 4 and 6 -year-olds the "Ho / Yeah" greeting and response last night. They love it!

The CD is worthless but the rights to the music on it are not. Good point about the CD.

By all means go ahead. Caches can hold as many TB as will physically fit inside them, from what I've seen in the listings.