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Don't worry -- this feature is already in the system SUBMITTED (24998) - [FEATURE] add "Part of a powertrail" to cache attributes

To avoid creating anomalies in the space-time continuum, I don't attempt to sign the log until after I have completed the challenge requirements. This has come up before: Which date can you use to log a challenge cache Signing challenge caches before qualification - and note logs Challenge Caches - pre-signing of logs In those threads, I link to a suggested feature that would include differentiation of the challenge-completed event from the log-signed one. I believe the feature should be implemented for the sake of the temporal integrity of the universe.

This is excellent information -- thanks! I do the IT so any of the backend stuff is always interesting to me. You have explained it clearly and non-technically -- not always an easy thing to do. Keep up the good work, and thanks for keeping us in the loop. Meanwhile, on the downside, I was enjoying playing the FTF game as I did before I was PMO, back in the day. A combination of refreshing the map and the newest-in-state list led to a couple of my first firsts. It would be fair to say that they were more satisfying than subsequent finds aided by instant notification. During this latest outage everyone was playing that way and I hope that the situation led to more finds by cachers who didn't even know they'd be first.

"You Found This on...." for Trackables Trackable Item Page Should Indicate a Log [FEATURE] Right rail call outs on trackable listings for "discovered it," etc Trackable page enhancement Wishful for trackables? Quick link trackable log Adding "Discovered" to travel bug description page

[FEATURE] Enhance Instant Notification Setup proposes this:

Not sure if this counts, but my favorite is the cloth camouflage hockey tape. Completely 100% superior to camouflage duct tape: it is completely non-reflective and will not deteriorate over time. In fact, over time, the camouflage hockey tape will start to acquire the characteristics of the location in which the container it is covering was hidden. Love that stuff.

From the [FEATURE] Enhance D/T selection in PQ thread:

How about enhancing the icons with badges instead of replacing them?

When registering for the mega-event (which was separate from posting a Will Attend log), there was an option for ordering lunch, T-shirts, geocoins, etc. You could pick up any swag (T-shirts, geocoins, etc.) when you checked in at the registration table. I don't know anything about the lunch arrangements though, since I left the mega-event early to attend a friend's surprise birthday party, and didn't order lunch. He probably went to the wrong place to retrieve the lunch he paid for. Maybe he accidentally paid his lunch money to

Dnf X Marks On Maps? Blue frownies New idea - Frownie face on the map downed caches New feature request(s) DNF caches Feature Request: Additional Bookmark Icon Displaying "Frownies" as Well as "Smilies" in "MapIt" Feature Request (DNF's on Maps) Feature request - sad DNF faces on map Misses not showing up Showing DNFs on maps Sad Faces on the Map DNF Suggestion? DNF's on the Map Did not find frowns last "DNF" blue not happy faces Found / Not Found Smilies Map Improvement DNF Shown on Map New map option New icons on the map Did Not Finds Frownie for DNFs A few ideas They are working on it (from first thread on the list):

[FEATURE] Ability to turn off 'visited' option for owned TBs/Coins Please stop automatic "took it to" logs Why Auto-Visit? Optional "took-it-to"-Logs Deleting pages of visit logs on owned trackables New idea: disable 'took it too.....' Filter out a trackables visited logs Blocking took-logs for trackables TB log enhancement

[FEATURE] Ability to turn off 'visited' option for owned TBs/Coins Please stop automatic "took it to" logs Why Auto-Visit? Optional "took-it-to"-Logs Deleting pages of visit logs on owned trackables New idea: disable 'took it too.....' Filter out a trackables visited logs Blocking took-logs for trackables TB log enhancement

I say again A rating system frees the reviewer from having to make any subjective decisions; those are left up to the CCO when they rate their challenge at publication.

Perhaps it could have helped to use a system that would provide quantification of degrees of difficulty? Five degrees of challenge difficulty that are maybe described thus: 1 - Recommended for beginners 2 - Attainable by casual cachers 3 - Attainable by half the local caching population 4 - Attainable by less than a quarter of the local caching population 5 - Attainable by 10 or less local cachers Rather than eliminate extreme challenges altogether, this would allow them to exist, but be filtered as needed.

Note also that the Windows 10 upgrade can be reverted within 30 days http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-10/going-back-to-windows-7-or-windows-81

It's hard when people point out the flaws in your arguments, isn't it? In this case your example (which you called a "prime" example) was shown to be a bad example. Thus your argument is unsupported by evidence. Something isn't an example just because you said it was -- in a real discussion, you are expected to show why your example is relevant to the argument and how the particular example applies. You did neither. Anecdotal - Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis. Yep - fits the description perfectly. A team of people hammered two hundred plastic tubes into the ground just outside of proximity with each other just so they could hide caches to facilitate completing a 200 finds in a day challenge as quickly as possible - and that's not a good enough anecdotal example? At least my example is real - actually happened - not some imaginary example that may or may not exist. You guys crack me up Can you provide from your example trail a link where it states on the cache page that the intent was to fulfill cache-a-day challenges? While we wait for that, have a look at this set of caches in Iowa, placed specifically (as stated on each cache's page) to fill the grid, twice: The "G" MEN (I couldn't find the grid series that was in Ontario; perhaps I imagined it when I was altering my dosages...)

Nope, sorry, I find it very easy to doubt. I've seen a few caches planted to help with a challenge qualification, but none of the ones I've found were for that purpose to the exclusion of all else. All were reasonable hides with decent containers, all well within the normal standards for my area. If anything, I'd say such caches tend to be a little better. Perhaps you could show me an area suffering such a scourge. If there's a place where such caches made an area actually suffer, I'd be wondering why the CO is ignoring the suffering he's caused. That would true whether the CO planted them to help with challenges or had some other reason to plant caches that make the area suffer. It seems like a local matter. You're sorry that you find it easy to doubt? Don't be - it's very easy to doubt anything you choose. It's also very easy to look around you and claim that because it isn't happening where you are, it isn't happening anywhere and I've even heard it said that ignorance is bliss. I am happy that you live in caching Utopia - if only your utopian outlook could magically spread to all parts of the world everything would be raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Sure it's a local matter - local to everywhere that it happens. I too wonder why some CO's ignore the suffering they cause - perhaps they are blissfully unaware of it, believing all is Utopian. The question stands Where is this dystopia? No problem - I'll get working right away on a detailed report... That's not necessary; I'd be happy to see even a single anecdotal instance. Surely you must have had one in mind when you made the allegation, no? The main one that springs to mind was a trail of 200 caches along a canal bank, placed so that people could qualify for 200 finds in a day challenges. The caches were all hidden in plastic tubes hammered into the ground with a stone on top, which obviously contravened the buried cache guideline. Correlation does not mean causation. Any trail of caches could be used to qualify for a x-finds-a-day. I was trying to find a better example but couldn't. Isn't there a trail somewhere that has 81 caches on it, each with a different D/T? That's a for-sure challenge-fulfilling trail. But if each cache is legitimately rated for D and T, is a trail like that a bad thing? Sigh. I'd be happy to see even a single anecdotal instance you said- and then, given a prime example, claim it doesn't meet your requirements. I won't pretend to be surprised. My anecdotal instance is more relevant (if it exists) because it shows the caches were placed to fulfill a challenge. While a trail of caches can be used to fulfill a x-caches-a-day challenge, it is disingenuous to presume that was the motivation for creating the trail in the first place. I'd need more specifics -- the trail you (don't) cite may have been placed before challenge caches were a thing, which would be exculpatory.

Nope, sorry, I find it very easy to doubt. I've seen a few caches planted to help with a challenge qualification, but none of the ones I've found were for that purpose to the exclusion of all else. All were reasonable hides with decent containers, all well within the normal standards for my area. If anything, I'd say such caches tend to be a little better. Perhaps you could show me an area suffering such a scourge. If there's a place where such caches made an area actually suffer, I'd be wondering why the CO is ignoring the suffering he's caused. That would true whether the CO planted them to help with challenges or had some other reason to plant caches that make the area suffer. It seems like a local matter. You're sorry that you find it easy to doubt? Don't be - it's very easy to doubt anything you choose. It's also very easy to look around you and claim that because it isn't happening where you are, it isn't happening anywhere and I've even heard it said that ignorance is bliss. I am happy that you live in caching Utopia - if only your utopian outlook could magically spread to all parts of the world everything would be raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Sure it's a local matter - local to everywhere that it happens. I too wonder why some CO's ignore the suffering they cause - perhaps they are blissfully unaware of it, believing all is Utopian. The question stands Where is this dystopia? No problem - I'll get working right away on a detailed report... That's not necessary; I'd be happy to see even a single anecdotal instance. Surely you must have had one in mind when you made the allegation, no? The main one that springs to mind was a trail of 200 caches along a canal bank, placed so that people could qualify for 200 finds in a day challenges. The caches were all hidden in plastic tubes hammered into the ground with a stone on top, which obviously contravened the buried cache guideline. Correlation does not mean causation. Any trail of caches could be used to qualify for a x-finds-a-day. I was trying to find a better example but couldn't. Isn't there a trail somewhere that has 81 caches on it, each with a different D/T? That's a for-sure challenge-fulfilling trail. But if each cache is legitimately rated for D and T, is a trail like that a bad thing?

Nope, sorry, I find it very easy to doubt. I've seen a few caches planted to help with a challenge qualification, but none of the ones I've found were for that purpose to the exclusion of all else. All were reasonable hides with decent containers, all well within the normal standards for my area. If anything, I'd say such caches tend to be a little better. Perhaps you could show me an area suffering such a scourge. If there's a place where such caches made an area actually suffer, I'd be wondering why the CO is ignoring the suffering he's caused. That would true whether the CO planted them to help with challenges or had some other reason to plant caches that make the area suffer. It seems like a local matter. You're sorry that you find it easy to doubt? Don't be - it's very easy to doubt anything you choose. It's also very easy to look around you and claim that because it isn't happening where you are, it isn't happening anywhere and I've even heard it said that ignorance is bliss. I am happy that you live in caching Utopia - if only your utopian outlook could magically spread to all parts of the world everything would be raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Sure it's a local matter - local to everywhere that it happens. I too wonder why some CO's ignore the suffering they cause - perhaps they are blissfully unaware of it, believing all is Utopian. The question stands Where is this dystopia? No problem - I'll get working right away on a detailed report... That's not necessary; I'd be happy to see even a single anecdotal instance. Surely you must have had one in mind when you made the allegation, no?

Nope, sorry, I find it very easy to doubt. I've seen a few caches planted to help with a challenge qualification, but none of the ones I've found were for that purpose to the exclusion of all else. All were reasonable hides with decent containers, all well within the normal standards for my area. If anything, I'd say such caches tend to be a little better. Perhaps you could show me an area suffering such a scourge. If there's a place where such caches made an area actually suffer, I'd be wondering why the CO is ignoring the suffering he's caused. That would true whether the CO planted them to help with challenges or had some other reason to plant caches that make the area suffer. It seems like a local matter. You're sorry that you find it easy to doubt? Don't be - it's very easy to doubt anything you choose. It's also very easy to look around you and claim that because it isn't happening where you are, it isn't happening anywhere and I've even heard it said that ignorance is bliss. I am happy that you live in caching Utopia - if only your utopian outlook could magically spread to all parts of the world everything would be raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Sure it's a local matter - local to everywhere that it happens. I too wonder why some CO's ignore the suffering they cause - perhaps they are blissfully unaware of it, believing all is Utopian. The question stands Where is this dystopia?

Hm. If that's the case, I'd wager the challenge would not be allowed. They must be positive/additive, which typically means that you shouldn't be able to "unqualify" (to take a step back while geocahcing normally, or 'not' cache in order to move towards qualification). Can you cite an example of a challenge that exists where this would be the case? (I know of many types) We may quickly be able to determine if that particular one would be allowed under the new guidelines. Well the simplest one that springs to mind is a challenge based on the D/T grid where CO's might change D/T any time they choose. If I'm on the threshold, so to speak, a single change could break my qualification. That's not something that can be controlled by finders' geocaching habits; it is out of their hands what the CO does behind their backs. The example that came to my mind was a challenge based on your centroid: Cache Centroid Challenge

That looks like the landing page where you end up after authenticating yourself to PGC. If you are already authenticated and click on the link to the checker, you should land on a less-complicated page like this: That is the result of this link: http://project-gc.co...llenges/GC5GTNY That's a bit better but is that last sentence really useful? It just comes across as someone trying to show off their technical knowledge; "a more correct way to do it would be to use Vincenty's formula, but it's very cpu heavy to use." Does anyone actually care what Vincenty's formula is? It's a challenge checker, not an academic research paper. Bad example. How about this?

That looks like the landing page where you end up after authenticating yourself to PGC. If you are already authenticated and click on the link to the checker, you should land on a less-complicated page like this: That is the result of this link: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5GTNY