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You do what you think you need to do. Many will tell you, oh no you can never do that without actually visiting the cache. It depends on your level of involvement with the community. If you're really invested, know what is going on with the different hiders and finders, you can make quite an educated guess about caches.

I've had no issues with my reviewers or seen any from them with them with other players. They are just there, doing their job with a complete lack of drama. Lava Lizard, Seismic Quark, and Marko Ramius. If I have questions, they take more time than I figure they have to answer. If my hide skirts some boundary, they explain why and offer suggestions as to fix. They even don't have any ill will when I've asked for a review a couple times.

I just ran into the problem after looking up and down the attributes and not finding field puzzle. I've hidden a letterbox that is also a gadget cache. Since it is already published, I need a proper solution to adding the field puzzle attribute.

I found my first caches in 2008 with a Forerunner 305. It worked but it is was a real pain to work with. That is why I only found three that day. Do you have a smartphone?

To those of you that leave short logs, no matter the reason, I will offer a compromise that I hope you can make. When you take notice that the hider went a little extra on the hide. They placed it somewhere out of the ordinary, they spent a bit of money on it, they made it a little different than the majority out there. Just add something short that tells the hider that you recognized that. You don't have to appreciate it, just give the hider a feeling that he/she understands that you were present in that moment of signing the log. I love long, wordy logs, but I don't expect them and if I only got the above, I would be satisfied with what I try to offer as a hider.

Sorry. Such blanket generalizations like this are invalid. I have 624 finds to 97 hides. By your logic, I should have only been allowed 34 hides. Ask anyone in my county who hides the most fun and interesting hides and I'll be surprised if most don't have me in the top 2. And, also, you think hides by different cachers are going to tend to be different? On average THEY WILL NOT BE. They will be the same micro, cheap container in the same hiding place. Your problems are very regional, specific to your area. Your solution would hurt other areas.

You don't. You are free to leave that information in your found/note/dnf log to alert others to your information but other than that, there is nothing to "report".

Hmm, I have a diamond and a sapphire in my collection. http://www.geogems.us/ Sales links to a broken site but maybe you can get somewhere from what is there. Look up the domain owner and email them. If you pull the domain info, you'll get a name and if you search that name, you'll find a facebook profile that is of the creator of the gems. He most likely still has some stashed away, if you were to ask.

I see favorite points that are left.. See the green heart? p.s. someone explain why this heart is green and not blue? It's not because it is MY cache as the heart is green on the caches I see in my friend's logs as well.

Are you just trying to fiddle with the Health Score to see if it appears on the dashboard?

Woah, stop right there. I was a developer of the vBulletin Forum software package for ~13 years. The very software that inspired the software package that this Forum is running on. I have a lot of experience in the arena of customer "feedback" left on forums. You need to take a step back, put your armor on, and think before hitting the Enter key on your keyboard. You are in a position where you, your team, your work, is going to be constantly criticized. This will happen regardless of how much faith and effort you have put forth. The customer, for the most part, doesn't care. They only want what they want, not what may be best for all. If you are going to put yourself in here, don't only do it when you feel the need to defend yourself. It looks bad when the only communication from up high comes from a place of defense. I understand why you wouldn't want to get into the details of the health score. If you open that can, everyone is going to chime in, telling you how it should work. Again, I know from experience what happens when you open the floor to the customers, allowing them to get there hand in, dictating how and when this or that feature is going to be implemented. We all have opinions of Groundspeak, some feel Groundspeak is flippant at times with their care for the game in the ways that we find important. It is a two way street, you need to recognize that and accept the criticisms, valid or not. Anyone using this forum cares about Geocaching more than most. Defend your position, your work, but don't do in a way that invalidates what we feel are problems with the system. I know, again, that if any of you lackeys feel like it is time to converse with us, you need to follow up with what you started. If you're going to throw something out there about the coordinates checker, don't then go completely silent on what many feel are problems with it. After a spell, take a moment to address the issues and say either, that's that, or we are going to change it in <timeframe here>.

I feel it is time for you to start publishing the Health Score of each cache as well as the overall Health Score of every hider.

I wasn't referring to the number 10 when I said "High Number" but rather to geocachers with ALOT of finds, tens of thousands. Those are the people whom I believe Groundspeak changed the rules towards. Allowing them to qualify for most challenges without them having to do anything different than what they already do.

I think you can translate that into: "A challenge cache must be automatically qualifiable by high number cachers without them having to do anything they don't already do" Real challenges, like the one I own, are not allowed any longer. Compare the logs on my cache versus the standard "We checked and we qualify for this one. TFTC." found on most challenges. <shakes head>

1. Only log caches that I put my hand on. 2. Only log caches that I find and I believe are the accepted cache. This means, yes, I have logged caches that I know are throwdowns. 3. If I find a cache without a log, I will leave my signature on a scrap of paper. If I find just a log, no container, I do not log the cache. 4. I will never leave a throwdown. It exists in the realm of possibility that I might leave a replacement for a friend but I wouldn't log anything that I left. 5. Only record the log date as the actual date that I found the cache. 1. I delete logs that are left on my caches that are missing. 2. I don't leave my caches missing for long so #1 isn't really an issue. 3. I don't hide caches in places that I can't regularly check on them. 4. I don't hide inferior containers: hide a keys, pill bottles, altoids. I don't go cheap. 5. I realize most finders don't care about #4.

Don't waste any of your time proposing ANY social abilities be introduced into geocaching. The thing I find funny is that you will hear "play the game like you want, I'll play like I want" all the time here except when it comes to introducing more social features into the cache page. If you asked the forums, should Facebook even exist, you would get a majority telling you NO.

Come on now, everything has been "done to death" at this point. When you roll up on a birdhouse, do you really feel some bit of disgust at what you've found? How is finding a small, dry container a bad thing?

Click the "Upload an Image" on your trackable's page. Select an image and then check the "Make this the default image for this Trackable". Your uploaded image will replace the Nurse image that you currently have. I think that is what you are actually asking about. The other responses are talking about the icon next to the trackable's name. You can't change that, but your tag is probably supposed to have its own icon. Email Groundspeak and ask them to check if they missed uploading the icon image. It happens. I've asked about icons that I though I should have on some coins and they write back they will fix it and the icon shows up soon enough after that.

A cache owner is not required to give a reason for archiving a cache. One thing we owners still possess the right to do, is archive our caches. This is just another example of finders believing geocaching is always about them. The owner can ask his/her reviewer to lock the cache for any further logging and it will be done.

Is the hole dripping with sap? In my experience, those sorts of trees drip a lot of sap after being drilled, which I have encountered when caches have been drilled into trees. More or less, from the photo you provided doesn't look to be a fresh drilled hole. With what you've provided, just move on. Keep this hide in mind if you find other caches by the CO. That's where you can build your case from. It can be a tough road to go down though. I'm sure you already feel push back in this very thread about even considering the idea of reporting a cache.

If the owner expects you to put a new trackable code on the item then I would respectfully ask them to either send you the tag or give you postage to send the item back to them.

I have hidden 25+ letterbox hybrids and would like to see more of them out in the world. I would also like to see more geocoins in my folder. My offer is to carve letterbox stamps for you in exchange for a trackable geocoin or trackable geocoins. My preference is for personal coins but I will consider any offers. I don't care if the coin is activated as long as it can be transferred to me. Stamps will come attached to 1/4" Walnut with a foam backing to provide a solid image transfer. Some examples of my work follow. The Beatles stamps are the size of a quarter.

When has a thread this long, on this forum, not been shot at this point?

Agreed, if someone logs the cache, I don't care if everyone else with them doesn't personally sign the log. If I believe they were actually there, then they experienced the cache in some manner or other. It isn't my concern that they don't play the game the same as I do as far as only logging caches that I touch. My line is a throwdown. If you admit to leaving a throwdown, then your log will be deleted. If I find a throwdown and can track back to who did it, that log gets deleted.

Use Cachly in offline mode and you can get the photos and more than 5 logs.