fbingha
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RockChalk,
Can you find $10 laying around and purchase the Dark Mode plugin and install it here?
The on Apr 1, set Dark Mode on by default. I would love to see the conniption fit that 75% of this forum would have over that.
People, the best way to get used to website changes is to stop being upset about it. Accept it and move on. By some miracle you'll either get used to it, or quit using it. Either one solves the problem.
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I think some people enjoy the dress up aspect more than the need to conceal their motives.
I would never cache somewhere that I felt the need to present a false identity, even if it is to just make myself invisible to muggles. One of my top rules is that I do not cache where I believe the locals won't appreciate behavior that they might see as sketchy. I respect that people have a certain expectation of privacy around their homes and their property even if I may be within my legal right to be there.
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I've had no issues with delamination with the tags I've added to travel bugs. If the bug is still moving, the tags look fine in the posted pictures. Looking at the Jeep lamination above, the edge is cut to less than a mm in some places. Of course that's going to delaminate. I cut mine no closer then 1/4" from the paper inside.
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7 hours ago, CheekyBrit said:
I thought of the blue switch as a classification term. Green switches often refer to companies becoming economical and carbon neutral. I always thought the "blue" switch refers to the releasing of technology, turning on that technology with regard to the public's eye.
Why blue? Outside of the matrix trilogy blue seems to be the primary media depicted color of computer based technology, possibly thanks to windows using blue a lot.
Also, Big Blue is
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If you want to move it move than .1 miles, just ask a reviewer to do it. You don't need to pass any moral test as to whether or not your cache is the "same experience". If it's part of a theme and it makes more sense to keep the same cache instead of creating a new one, let the reviewer know that and they will likely help you out. This has been my experience with themed caches that have become compromised and I needed to move them elsewhere in the same area but more than a tenth of a mile.
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Leave a FTF prize if that's what you want to do. It's your first cache, make it an experience just as much for you as the finder.
I left a mountaintop pole trek, rock scramble, cache last month with a $20 bill in it. Whoever gets it, deserves it for the effort.
A bike path cache on the other hand, I don't leave any FTF prizes. Often, your hard work, turns into nothing more than a statistic for someone so they can claim their FTF for the week, for the month, whatever. They don't experience the walk, the ride, the place, they just see a mark they can put down. Really no reason to reward that.
Please realize that you are talking to the grizzled veterans here, though. Our experience will not be yours.
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16 hours ago, CAVinoGal said:
I don't get why people do this either. There are some who show up at events (when we could have events!) with a sheet of TB #'s and want us all to "Discover them". I don't bother. But others do. I don't get it. Even if someone shows up with a whole box of coins and tags, I may Discover one or two that look interesting, but not the whole lot.
I enjoy increasing the different coins discovered on my profile, but only actual coins. I will not discover items from a list.
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A week? It's now Jan 2nd. What sort of SCRUM process is Groundspeak running in that their expectation of a software release being 1 week away has now turned into 2 months later?
Is this where we insert the conspiracy theories about killing of Wherigo in preference for Adventure Labs?
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I think 4.5 years was a good amount of time for DARKSIDEDAN to study the after effects of the switch.
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5 hours ago, Goodgulf said:
Nice, I've found someone who has a longer No Finds streak than I do.
Yes, I've cached more this year because of Corona Virus. Just got tired of being cooped up at home.
Yearly Breakdown
Year Total Caches Find Rate 2008 3 0.012 caches/day 2009 0 0 caches/day 2010 0 0 caches/day 2011 0 0 caches/day 2012 138 0.377 caches/day 2013 223 0.611 caches/day 2014 55 0.1507 caches/day 2015 14 0.0384 caches/day 2016 79 0.2158 caches/day 2017 130 0.3562 caches/day 2018 19 0.0521 caches/day 2019 9 0.0247 caches/day 2020 137 0.3881 caches/day -
9 hours ago, cerberus1 said:
Cool.. Works for you, right ?
Why not just skip the caches where parking is close to caches ? I've done that since starting.
If you're driving anyway. there aren't areas outside the urban setting to walk a bit ?
This is the general forums, so it's sorta okay, but "recreating" words used in this hobby incorrectly could confuse new members elsewhere.
For us, a "spawnpoint" is a pebbled bed in a river where we're hooking into salmon.
.. and I was thinking Pokemon Go when I read "spawnpoint".
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19 hours ago, TmdAndGG said:
It was sent in an email by HQ. Did you not get it?
I don't recall seeing it or deleting it.
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Where is this survey?
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Firetacks are
23 minutes ago, Unit473L said:Does anybody have any suggestions on how to mount a reflector in a tree in a way that it will reliably face in the right direction, without screws or nails?
Something that isn't going to get blown away or dislodged by an animal? No.
Use firetacks, they are allowed.
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39 minutes ago, Bundyrumandcoke said:
I have a PVC cache, thats around 14 years old, never been DNFed, never been off line for maintenance, never needed maintenance, fairly easily found, about 100 metres off a busy main road. Large enough to be a TB motel for all but the very largest TBs. Container is 100mm PVC pipe about 1 metre long.
Mind you, an ammo can is not the be all and end all for cache container, as I have seen one rusted out completely due to its proximity to the beach.
It all depends on the environment. PVC exposed to the sun will degrade whereas an Ammo can will continue to function.
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2 hours ago, on4bam said:
No matter if I know the CO or not, I will post a NM if I find a cache with a piece of paper that doesn't look like the log the CO placed. NM logs are meant to alert the CO of problems with the cache and shouldn't bee seen as anything more than that.
Deleting the online log because of a NM is kind of petty anyway.
Of course, that's a proper thing to do... but if you have a "history" with the CO, MANY OF US KNOW how such simple actions can blow up.
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On 12/9/2020 at 5:09 AM, WadleClan said:
I found the cache and saw there was no logbook, just a little scrap of paper which many others had marked before me. So I added my stamp and logged the find. I also added a Needs Maintenance and explained how there was no logbook. Later in the day, I noticed my Stats were suddenly lower. I had no logged cache from today. I checked the last cache to see if it did not transfer from my phone. I found he disabled the cache and wrote a snippy note about how if there were no logbook, it could not be logged, it was not a virtual.
To me, it seems that both of you are behaving childishly. You have over 1,000 finds and surely you know by now that a slip of paper is all this required. I am certain that you've found many micros with just a slip of paper that you did not log a NM requiest. You know an actual logbook is not required, regardless of the size of the cache. To post a NM with such a reason gives the appearance that you were being snippy based on your past history with the CO. He responded with the same snippy attitude and removed your find. He does have a point, if you say there isn't a valid log, then therefore you didn't sign a valid log, hence no find.
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4 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said:
OP does raise a point I agree with: if your Premium expires then all of your PMO caches should automatically loose PMO status.
I could get behind this change, with a grace period.
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On 12/6/2020 at 10:11 AM, Lynx Humble said:
Yeah a good example for an NA because the NM got ignored would be this one you found recently https://coord.info/GC2GD8K
What the heck people are logging since June when the cache dissapeared? Also most geocacher in California seems to love short log sadly...
That is not a good example in my experience. Cachers are finding something out there and besides the OP, they are logging it without complaining. When I've attempted to get similar, but even worse off caches archived, I have been unsuccessful. It really seems that if a cache appears to be "functioning" then archival is hard to push through because it's simply a zip log bag or has a receipt for a log.
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Monday, 07 December 2020 by <GIMME MORE FINDS #1>
Third time in the US. And a new found here near <SOME CITY> with <GIMME MORE FINDS #2>. We think the box isn't here anymore. Tftc.
Monday, 07 December 2020 by <GIMME MORE FINDS #2>
<GIMME MORE FINDS #1> and I stay for some days in <SOME CITY> and of course we wanted to find some Caches. We was on the right spot but couldnt found a box. There is too much dirt and everything is overgrown. Hope the picture will be okay. Tftc -
On 12/3/2020 at 8:39 AM, hzoi said:
It's for consistency. That way, hiders, reviewers, and finders are all on the same page of what's expected.
I should be able to find any given letterbox hybrid geocache, or traditional, or multi, or Wherigo, or earthcache, or virtual cache, or A.P.E. cache, or event cache, or adventure maze, without relying on other caches to piece it together. Whereas if it's an unknown/mystery cache, categorically I'm on notice that I can't just turn on the GPSr and go hunting, as there are other things I need to do or figure out in order to get the find.
You don't see how this doesn't make sense?
You say "categorically I'm on notice that I can't just turn on the GPSr and go hunting, as there are other things I need to do or figure out in order to get the find"
I can take my cache with a stamp, set up a puzzle that requires you to do all sorts of things all over the county over several days and publish it as a letterbox, right now, per the rules.
.. but if I just happen to include finding another geocache in that puzzle, it can no longer be a letterbox.
It's just nonsense.
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I would like to see such features added to the cache page.
Remember, this is a small forum and the opinions expressed here may not reflect opinions of those who do not utilize these forums.
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This gets old every time. This game is not played like XYZ want it to be.
I get tired of people complaining about hides when they don’t bother to hide or stopped hiding along time ago.
Get off your high horse and go hide the caches that you want to find. That’s all we can do. It takes a couple dedicated hiders in an area to change what is expected in an area.
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40 minutes ago, colleda said:
Likewise. When I placed my Fernleigh Track series of 21 caches over seven years ago I allowed approximately 400 metres or so between caches, including two or three placed by another cacher. After mine were published the other CO promptly archived theirs - I'm not sure why. At the time I thought that leaving plenty of room between mine would allow anyone else to place some if they wished. To date no one has so I am now thinking of placing a few more as an alternative trail.
Best guess is that they didn't want the Power Trail traffic. PTs often bring cookie cutter logs that give no feeling of thanks back to hiders who get mixed up in that.
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Release Notes (Website: Benchmarking retirement) - October 17, 2022
in Geocaching HQ communications
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Your first comment describes ALL of geocaching, it's just in a steady decline.
At this point in Geocaching's timeline, it is not becoming more and more global. Again, it's all just in decline.
You should do what you can to keep the cachers you have. Your ability to capture new cachers is very limited these days.