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We did a not so interesting cache and my other said out loud (the full version) "..and TFTFC" as she dated/signed the log. I couldn't move from laughing for about 5 minutes!

your rank currently equals your title.

you do realise more cars get stolen and resold daily, then any coins? Btw, these all get returned back to the streets(game).

see bolded stuff Good Times

Maybe there needs to be a CBFA log for these... Just so others know that the cache could well still be there, and there's no need for the cache owner to rush out to check it. CBFA = Couldn't Be Bothered To Look For It. CBFA = Couldn't Be Further Away? I'm sure ze German armchair loggers would like that one

my personal best is 4 finds/7 dnf for one session

The guidelines regarding this got updated in January I think, it is just that a lot of cache owners haven't updated their cache pages. from the EC guidelines, my bold : Logging of an EarthCache must involve visitors undertaking some educational task that relates to the Earth science at the site. This could involve measuring or estimating the size of some feature or aspect of the site, collecting and recording data (such as time of a tidal bore), or sending an e-mail to the cache owner with the answer to Earth science related questions they obtained by reading an information display. While photographs may be requested, they do not take the place of other logging requirements. Taking a photograph alone or asking people to do internet research does NOT meet these logging guidelines. Requests for specific content in the photograph (must include the visitor's face, for example) will be considered an additional logging requirement and must be optional. Cache owners may not delete the cache seeker's log based solely on optional tasks. As for us personally, we don't mind, we like taking pics

Photos unrelated to the geologic content of the EarthCache can no longer be required, ie face/gps pic.

Is it weekend yet?

cross posted

A gentle email may well be a good idea. One point of deleting a log would be to educate the influx that the aim of the game isn't to just do your thing in selfish isolation but to reach out to your fellow game players and acknowledge they exist and went to the trouble of hiding a cache, and that at least some sort of a log is required to play the game properly. The aim of the game isn't just to find cache - it's more than that. I don't care if it's a short log, it can even smell of paste and have some cut marks around the edge, but '.' is just rude and the 'sent from ...' is much the same. Just imagine if everyone logged caches with '.' - how many people would continue to hide caches? I think the 'sent from...' logs are because folk don't understand the app. I actually sent one myself the other day by accidentally pressing the wrong button before having written anything. I did, of course, go and edit it when I got home. The app could be better designed from this pov. (By the way, I'd rather have a short cut&paste log than a long rambling cut&paste job. Looks like an interesting paragraph, then you realise its exactly the same.) Copy and paste (inc. on iPhone4) should presumably be useful for anyone who struggles to write a log. Craft something short, then just paste it in. But I don't believe most people have any problems, just have odd attitudes - it would be nice to say Ta. To be honest, most people do and rubbish logs aren't that common, and generally just get ignored by me. I think the "." is also an automated log on the same app. Not sure but i think it went from a blank space to a dot to 'send from...' evolutionary speaking

I remember it well I am notoriously bad at finding our own caches though so was glad of the spoiler picture! Email sent to dgwebster hahaha thank for the lols, seriously

err so chicken out in may next year then, I'm sure you where still doing it this year sorry mate, had a bout of fatness and had to opt out, I am sure you know what thats like.

now only for this thread to be closed so the basement dweller doesn't get any more attention. glad you got things sorted tho

sorry if i am posting something very obvious here : suedenim = pseudonym good luck to get anything done if the above is true.

I have tried changing the name back, but can't as it is already taken, (by me). When I log in as Jacaru I have basic membership, no finds and no hides. Just waiting for Groundspeak to get in touch and then off to the police. Thanks everyone for your support. change basic account into jac-basic, change main account back to Jacaru?

hmmm??? She found it first, she got the coords first. if I cross list a cache listing are we going to have this discussion as well? Will we require opencaching and GS reviewers to review and release the listing at the exact same time??? Just to make it fair so someone can properly earn it? the above aside.. I am playing devil's advocate here, and I can make up 100 reasons for him to do what he did. We don't know any of the ins and outs at all. My point was to illustrate these forums and most responses are very trigger happy and negative. Most posts tend to presume the 'bad', rather then a possible 'good' scenario .

Just adapt the mindset that the moment you release it it is lost and gone forever. Pretend you are throwing a £10 note out an open window just to see where it might land.

That is actually not a bad idea at all, perhaps something the GAGB can provide? *looks around for GAGB people*

or go here and click Calendar : GAGB

yup

QFT, good post

what she said

On the flipside, what about this scenario: A loving granddad who has just programmed the numbers in for his grandchild, who then excitedly found the cache and had a ftf. Can you imagine the smile on her face and how the Granddad felt when he saw her smile? *shrugs* life is to short to worry about these things

I can confirm the answer to that question is : No.