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Maybe we can have a system that quantifies the difficulty of the challenge, which would more accurately reflect the achievement than a monolithic +1 smiley. I'd like to see a stats bar that looks like this:

Maybe I missed it somewhere in the rest of this thread, but does anything prevent me from listing a 5-star challenge cache that requires someone to find only 2 caches in 1 day (and the challenge cache would count as one of the two)? There is nothing in the thread that addresses this issue. Whatever mechanisms exist to prevent bad D/T ratings would also apply to the C rating, to which they are akin.

Challenge Stars separate the physical find from the challenge completion. Only those who have met the requirements would be allowed to log the exclusive Challenge Completed log type, after which they would get their deserved Stars (whose quantity would be proportional to the difficulty of the challenge). By using the Found It as it was originally intended (find-sign-log) and not as reward for completing the challenge, there will never be a need to log challenge caches with a Note log type. A five-star Challenge Completed is more exclusive than a monolithic Found It. The Stars enhance the exclusivity of these challenges. The Challenge Stars system proposes enhancing existing icons to provide this functionality. For example, see post 8 for what the map filter could look like.

Go have a look at the Challenge Stars proposal. It addresses the scenarios you describe.

Should GS decide it's ok for a challenge cache to be logged as found by those not meeting the challenge I would immediately archive my challenge caches. I put in a lot of effort to qualify for my challenges before publishing them and will not let anyone that hasn't log them. You'd better go and archive them now, because they all appear to have been found and logged by a number of people who haven't qualified. http://coord.info/GLGZ423F http://coord.info/GLGBV5V1 http://coord.info/GLGBDRPH http://coord.info/GLGZ40GT Those are notes and I clearly stated logged as found. Big difference, but you already knew that. . So in the context of those challenges, a "Found It" log really means "Challenge Completed" and a "Note" can mean the container was found and the log signed. It sounds like there should be some system to separate the finding of the container from the completion of the challenge.

Should GS decide it's ok for a challenge cache to be logged as found by those not meeting the challenge I would immediately archive my challenge caches. I put in a lot of effort to qualify for my challenges before publishing them and will not let anyone that hasn't log them. You'd better go and archive them now, because they all appear to have been found and logged by a number of people who haven't qualified. http://coord.info/GLGZ423F http://coord.info/GLGBV5V1 http://coord.info/GLGBDRPH http://coord.info/GLGZ40GT

Is this an inappropriate location to shill for the Challenge Stars feature?

Even the accompanying photo is awesome:

The problem also occurs with deactivated plugin... It won't ever work, plugin or no, unless Groundspeak enables SSL on all their web servers.

It sounds like you might have to write a rule within the add-on for those problematic URLs. The authenticated-by-a-certification-authority SSL certificates aren't free. Non-implementation of https on servers that don't process confidential information might be a financial decision by Groundspeak. EDIT: The issue might not be financial. Examination of the certificate issued at their web store shows it is a wildcard certificate which means they could theoretically deploy it on any server whose URL ends with .geocaching.com (unless they bought a wildcard certificate with a limited number of subject names). The issue could be technical/administrative; when you add another subject name to the certificate and re-key it, that new cert has to be reinstalled on all the servers on which it is currently in use.

Are you finding links on the site that are explicitly pointing at https: or are you changing the URL yourself?

Properly implemented, the Challenge Stars feature would differentiate these caches from the mystery type.

The GSAK license is always free. However, after the initial trial period, a nag screen appears before the program will run. The display time of the nag screen increases the longer you go without paying. I got the nag screen up to 420 seconds before I broke down and paid. It was the API integration which closed me, and it is worth every penny.

That's a warning to cachers who are looking through the logs. It doesn't obligate cache owners to tolerate spoilers. Of course you are right, but a pedant like myself allows for the minority interpretation. Like when the help desk phone menu announcement says that "your call may be recorded for quality control purposes" -- in my mind, it is giving me permission to record the call.

A needs-archived on a clearly unsafe cache doesn't work up here: Apparently the reviewers are not the safety police

[FEATURE] Show trackable activity in log entries

I took this out of my profile because I couldn't get it to work perfectly. I'd rather wait for it to be an official feature. Am I naive to believe that it might actually be implemented since the workaround originated from a lackey?

Absent any official public response, I can relate anecdotally what was the nature of my behavior that resulted in my no-warning ban. I was "showing a continuing pattern of disdain for Groundspeak" Instead of being constructively critical (which is alleged to be OK), my mistake was "to take underhanded swipes at the company" I wonder if the moderators would to allow me to relate what it was exactly I did, as a cautionary tale to others, without having the post deleted and resulting in a (possibly-permanent) ban?

Totally worth it. Here's a photo from an event I attended on Batchawana mountain:

The twitter hashtagging is inline -- #like #this The IP Board tagging feature is not -- the tagged words are presented as a header in the message, if the screenshot from IP Board is accurate:

My one and only (so far) forum ban was for commentary about the lack of input from TPTB (in a way that I thought was humorous but I guess not so much for the receiving end). Compared to other forums in which I participate, interaction with officiates here (other than moderators) is conspicuously lacking. Browsing past forum posts indicates that this wasn't always the case and I often wonder if there was a tipping point and what it was.

IP.Board supports their own keyword tagging scheme. http://www.invisionpower.com/features/

I tend to call it "sharp" myself... When my daughter's around, I refer to it as a "hashbrown" Otherwise, it is an octothorpe It's a phone thing. You don't want to know what is the phone-thing word for "asterisk" Meanwhile, looking at the pictures that were posted here gives me an idea where might be located a cache I have DNF'd so thanks for that. On another note, regarding the pinterest thing -- is it mandatory to force a login to view galleries? Like, could they have made an anonymous public version if they wanted to?

The thread title reminded me of this scene in Beverly Hills Cop: (don't click that link if you are offended by swearing, which is why I didn't embed it)

Maybe I am not reading the responses carefully enough, but I can't see where anyone answered the OP question in the context of the specific challenge indicated. Lets say someone completed all of the challenge's requirements, found and signed the log and posted a Found It. But they didn't post a note indicating they were attempting it. Could their Found It be legitimately deleted?