[Requiring GSAK for a Challenge Cache?]

I can't guarantee that this is the cache the OP is referring to, but this one states that it requires GSAK verification. What I find confusing is that they require a bookmark list, which would be just fine, but then they additionally require the GSAK verification. I can't understand why the bookmark list wouldn't be enough. The GSAK verification seems superfluous to me.

 

Does anyone bother to contact the CO's of such caches? Or do we take one look at it and start to bash him/her? I can't speak for all of them but I can about this particular cache. I use a MAC and have never used GSAK. I have wanted to do this cache for some time now. I contacted the CO and explained my situation. I sent him a my finds query in an email and he ran it through the macro for me. I thanked him for his time and jumped on a plane. Not only did I do this cache I did a few others while out there including Earthcaches.

 

Funny thing is, I had not one problem logging any of his caches. It makes me wonder, is it possible some people treat others the way they are treated. If that's the case don't you think it's interesting that people that dish it out and can't take like to complain about it?

[Pause on New Challenge Caches]

In my opinion the frustrating part is not that thing that challenges caches does not have an own cache type or attribute or whatsever, in my opinion the frustrating part are such challenges like: find 50 T5 in 24h or have a 1000-day-streak. Yes, it's a bit exaggerated and such challenges can also be a challenge, but on the same way they are only achieved by a very small amount of cachers which prevent the majority of the geocachers from achieving them...And there is another problem. The guidelines says:"If a geocacher is required to alter their caching style or habits, [...], the geocache will not be published."If we are honest and interpret this rule in a strict way, then 99% of all challenge caches does not comply with the guidelines.Like my example with the 1000-day-streak: you have to find a cache every day and this is, in my opinion, an alteration of caching style/habits.

 

You do not have to alter anything. If I see a Challenge I do not find interesting, I just don't do it. I really don't care if there's a 1000 day streak cache down the street from my house. Why do people feel they need to find everything out there. There are plenty of lamp post caches around here that I dislike even more. I don't sit here and bitch about them. I simply ignore them.

[Release Notes (Website: New Search) - March 11, 2015]

Nice work NYPaddleCacher

[Release Notes (Website: New Search) - March 11, 2015]

Your new search feature is garbage. Why can't you people stop fixing things that are not broken?