TheMarbler

Thanks for the feedback! As for the hard vs soft, I've seen some 3's that were incredibly easy, and some that were much harder than some 4's. As for the rating chart on Geocaching.com to help interpret D/T levels, I feel this suggestion would be a good way to further align the chart with the understanding of the masses, as many folks have never seen that chart, and many others don't have it memorized. Also, I think this method, allowing cachers to 'rate' it themselves would benefit CO's in that, so many cachers (guilty as sometimes charged) only leave 'TFTC' in the log, and nothing else of relevance to the time it took, how easy it was to get to the location, etc. That said, I would very much appreciate your feedback regarding one of my hides in particular, where I've questioned whether or not the difficulty matches what I rated it as the CO. The GC Code is: GC7Z1TN. It's in Fenton, Michigan. Not sure where you are located, but if you getting out to this one is unlikely, I'd be happy to share photos with you privately to get your thoughts. Thanks!

Agreed! Although I am much, much newer to geocaching than you are, I have still come across my fair share of inaccurate D/T ratings, and would like the opportunity to learn how to rate them better as I begin to place more hides myself. Cheers!

'Souvenir' would be just fine. I used the term challenge to allude to a sense of leveling the souvenir, hopefully encouraging cachers to go above and beyond 1 holiday, and to promote learning about the variety of worldwide/regional/etc. holidays that are out there, such as those you referenced in your reply. Trivial or not, it may be a good way to bring awareness to these holidays of which I would bet money that the vast majority of people have no idea exist, myself for one. Hope this helps clear up my overstatement in the suggestion. Thanks for your reply!

Hello, everyone! I would like to make a feature suggestion for the Geocaching app. It would be nice if there was a feature to allow cachers to submit their own rating of a cache’s published D/T number. Meaning, if I hide a geocache, and I rate it a 3/1, do those who find it agree with its rating. They would not be able to change the published rating, but rather, enter what they felt the ratings should be (voluntarily, of course). The benefit would come over time, and would help cachers and cache owners alike. Cachers would be able to ‘see’ if it’s a hard 3/1, or an easier 3/1, etc. A cache owner would be able to gauge how well he/she rated the cache initially based on the greater population (maybe I’m great at clever hides, and feel that the one I place is fairly easy, when for most, it’s rather difficult – and vice versa). Thoughts?

Hello, everyone! I would like to make a suggestion for a new souvenir challenge. Challenge Name: Holiday Hunter Requirement(s) to earn: Find a cache on a certain number of holidays during the year. Perhaps finding 5 earns the basic souvenir (bronze), 10 earns a silver version, 20 earns the gold, etc. Not sure how many holidays there are worldwide, but am certain there are a ton to choose from. Thoughts?