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Owyn

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  1. I guess you are using the Greasemonkey script "GC Little Helper" - you can turn off the redirection to the maps in its options!
  2. I have just seen that the order of pictures in logs is now reversed (now: last uploaded image first, before: last uploaded image last). I think that's not logical. The order of the logs themselves is correct: newest one first. But each log is read from top to bottom, so the pictures should be in that order, too! Thanks in advance for reverting that change...
  3. Dear Groundspeak team, please - revert the design changes. There really is way too much whitespace and line spacing, the site is now almost unusable with a netbook. I also miss the different background colors. And please re-allow more HTML and CSS in cache descriptions - <hr>, position:absolute...
  4. Not quite. Going back to the beginning there have always been requirements in addition to just finding the cache. Dave Ulmer wrote in his posting "The Great American GPS Stash Hunt !": "The only rule for stashes is: Get some Stuff, Leave some Stuff!!" In his announcement of the first geocache or "Stash #1" he wrote: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff! Record it all in the log book." If interpreted strictly this is not "please do so", it is "do so!"... I read this a bit differently than that, I read it as Dave left out two words (possibly by accident??)...those words being "IF YOU". I say by accident, but probably Dave never imagined some would end up being so stuck on definitions to an activity meant to be fun. Let me see if I can help: IF YOU get some stuff, leave some stuff. I hope this helps! Of course I don't interpret Dave's writing in a strict way! I just wanted to point out that geocaching has evolved quite a bit since the first cache. Now there are multi caches, puzzle caches and so many other changes and additions. I welcome most of them. There are so many caches in the world that no one is "forced" to do any of them. We all can just ignore caches we don't like. Either by using the "ignore" feature (although I think it isn't consider in the map feature) or by using our cognitive abilities. I would have loved a change of cache types and/or attributes in a way that anyone can see directly not only what type of cache it is (traditional / multi), but also if he has to do something before the hunt (maybe an added "?" to the cache icon) and/or if he has to do something after finding the cache (maybe an added "+" to the cache icon). What would remain is the added hassle for the reviewers. This could possibly be solved my stating clearly in the guidelines that if a cache owner wants to have an ALR, he has to prove to the reviewers that he has fulfilled the requirements himself. If a cache owner still wants anyone to wear a silly hat, put up a tent on a market place or embrace a policeman, he would have to do himself and send his reviewer a photo of this. I guess many of the silly ALRs would go away. And I think there are quite legitimate ALRs: I consider it cheating if anyone signs the logbook of a tree climbing or similar T5 cache that is handed down to him - unless I know that he would be able to get to the cache himself. Cheers, Christian (Owyn)
  5. Not quite. Going back to the beginning there have always been requirements in addition to just finding the cache. Dave Ulmer wrote in his posting "The Great American GPS Stash Hunt !": "The only rule for stashes is: Get some Stuff, Leave some Stuff!!" In his announcement of the first geocache or "Stash #1" he wrote: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff! Record it all in the log book." If interpreted strictly this is not "please do so", it is "do so!"...
  6. As the seekers knew beforehand that they would have to fulfill an ALR, it's not true that "the situation changes right about the time the seeker's ink is drying in the logbook". If they know that they don't want to do the ALR, they don't have to go for the cache. Of course this decision is directly influenced by the ALR - but any decision about searching a cache is directly influenced by the cache type, the rating, maybe past logs, previously posted photos and a whole lot of other things! If he decides to go for the cache anyway, he could just log a "note" instead of a "found" - then he just searched the cache with out the ALR for his own enjoyment and not for a smiley icon you can't buy anything for after all. Then it's great that you have not added an ALR to your cache. You don't have to. No cache owner has to or had to, and most won't. There are more than 750 000 active caches in the world - I'm pretty sure an overwhelming majority of them don't have an ALR. I for my part welcome the diversity of all these caches! Of course there are some (or many?) caches I wouldn't do, because they mean no fun to me. Well, I don't have to - and maybe they are great for other cachers - now that's a win-win situation in my book. Cheers, Christian (Owyn)
  7. ALR caches are (or "were") labeled as mystery caches. When you cache "aimlessly", I would suggest only taking traditional cache coordinates with you! But even then it's better to read the cache pages in many cases: you get background information about the cache site or the cache, you can read about the opening times of the park the cache is in etc. Greetings, Christian (Owyn)
  8. (and the entire rest of your posting): I fully agree. MissJenn wrote: "We have made this change because, over time, the ALRs attached to a rapidly-growing number of caches have devolved to have little or nothing to do with geocaching: the act of finding a unique container/location using latitude and longitude". Well, of course there are caches with silly ALRs, as there are quite a number of otherwise stupid caches. But I wouldn't say all caches that go beyond the simple traditional cache are part of a DEvolution! For me it is a great EVOLUTION. The diversity grows, there are caches for everyone. Many still "just" show a great location, others show a great innovative way of hiding a box, some let you solve puzzles and maybe learn new things in order to do so that you would never have heard about without the cache - and some have any kind of log requirement (be it the "silly hat photo", a photo proof for T5 caches or the requirement NOT to post spoilers). Everybody can choose which caches they want to go after. TBTB could have introduced a new icon (or some new icons) and maybe improved the search features. And to reduce the workload of the reviewers, there are many possibilities in the "new cache form": automatically check the 161 meter distance to other caches/stages, automatically check if the home coordinates have been entered (which seems to be a problem for at least the German reviewers)... but this is a different story. Greetings, Christian (Owyn)
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