PandyBat
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Hmm. Maybe there should be two levels of archiving. One that lets people still be able to view the cache (and therefore be able to create logs) and one that prohibits viewing altogether...
Yea that would work
I agree too. If the Yellow Jeep locationless cache was archived due to the burden on the server (or whatever reason it was) and people are still logging to it, is it really archived? Kinda defeats the reason it was archived in the first place.
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Hello!
I am taking a trip to St. Genevieve, Missouri in two weeks. Any 'do not miss' caches that I should hit? I need to find ones that have really good history or unbelievable views behind them as I am taking along someone who doesn't geocache and I want to make it worth the time for both of us.
What do you suggest?
Also, am I using the right zip code in searches - 63670?
TIA!
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If that frog ends up turning into a prince, I'm gonna pee my pants laughing!
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I like being able to see the archived ones so if I want to put another cache in the same area or close, I can see by past experience how the archived one fared there.
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Earlier this year at the Carnegie Museum of Art here in Pittsburgh, I saw a do-it-yourself work of art that was a lawn chair. Literally.
It started with a cardboard form that spliced together to make a chair shape. You would fill it with dirt, pack it in and then plant grass. Eventually you would have a grassy chair.
That would be a cool thing to find in the woods.
I've been looking for a weblink but I haven't been able to find one but the concept is simple enough that anyone could work it out.
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127x129x60cms assembled
When the chair is assembled it can be filled with soil and sown with grass seed, when the grass grows it makes a lovely organic garden seat! Delivered Flat-pack, including grass seed. Now available in a miniature size! If you don't own a garden but still appreciate the concept you can still own a Terra! Also suitable as an outdoor seat for very small children.
I LOVE IT!
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I don't know how much work is currently going into moderating AS, but it wouldn't be a job I would want. With the current number of moderators now, I dont see GP.com creating an OT forum.
You know what...the mods very seldom have to moderate in AS...we get along just fine, and everyone is welcome...its a nice respite from some of the venom that sometimes gets spewed in the forums.
I think he's referring to how fast the AS thread moves. It would be hard to moderate that thread just because it can cover several pages in such a short time. I don't think he meant you all were starting trouble all the time or anything like that.
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Of course then there would the increased workload on the approvers/moderators to consider.
Could they recruit the person who originated the thread to help moderate such a forum? I believe she even requested being able to delete posts if people violated the rules.
Edit: wording
Why are approvers also moderators anyway? Seems they have enough to deal with just being approvers. For a couple years I was a moderator at a busy website and had several jobs outside of just moderating that I did. It wasn't easy. I don't wish that one anyone.
Back OT, I don't think having people moderating their own threads is a good idea. Too many people start unnecessary threads now as it is and would probably enjoy the trouble that gets started in those threads and wouldn't close it just to keep the drama going. Or they may post and never come back.
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Do you really think there should be a separate forum created for the thirty(!) people who like off topic banter??? I think the figures in the post you quoted prove that the vast majority of forum users don’t have an interest in topics that are… um… off. It doesn’t seem like an argument for a separate OT forum, but rather an argument against having even a single topic devoted to OT posting.
…just my opinion, of course.
Matt
If they build it, they will come. AS is the way it is because it is one single thread. Where multiple threads, and hence different conversations can exist, I think youi'd see greater participation.
Yep...this is the reason I don't post in AS. The thread is so fast and I'm too lazy to adjust my subscription settings and don't want to be bombarded by hundreds of email notifications in my inbox pertaining to AS.
I think with different subjects to choose from instead of trying to catch up with one ongoing thread like AS, people would participate more.
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I don't have that much of a problem with AS except for it signaling new posts in the Geocaching Topics forum when there isn't really any new posts except in AS.
I would vote for an OT forum just to talk about things that are not geocaching. We spend alot of time here and get to know people and it would be nice to be able to talk to them about other things besides geocaching. Of course then there would the increased workload on the approvers/moderators to consider.
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Does anyone here have experience with that i-cache program? I'm not sure if I should be downloading .loc files or .gpx files or if it even makes any difference. All I am getting when I import .loc files into the program is the cache name and waypoint. I was hoping it would download a little more information than that into the program. If not, I'll be here a while trying to update everything (which really means I'll probably give up on doing it after a while..lol).
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Awww....how cool is that?!?!
Congrats on everything and enjoy that pizza, Bret!
Thanks to RiverExplorer for making this a special day for Cybret!
I'm a 1967 baby too!
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And think of it: what would be the rationale behind a rule that would stop you from finding and logging a cache near your house, and keeping it stuck at the top of your todo list forever?
Unless the cache owner doesn't want you to log both, I don't think there is any set rule. But if you are logging the same cache in the same location only under a different name, then is it really a new find?
I prefer not to log them both because its really only one cache. I would be cheating myself if I took credit on two logs for the same cache. Must be the personal numbers stickler in me...lol
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I have a signature card that I use that I printed out on my computer. It's nothing much, just lets people know I was there. I leave a card for people that collect them and one for the owner. But I use other swag when for trading items. I don't use just the sig card to trade items with. That's hardly fair and not trading up or equal, unless another sig card was the only thing I traded for out of the cache.
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There was one in a cache that I recently did. I said to my partner, looks like a cache inside a cache. Then I realized that someone left it there for someone else to hide it. When I opened it up though, people had signed it too..lol
They just give someone a reason to hide yet another lame micro instead of thinking and hiding creatively.
Can you tell I'm not a huge fan of micros? LOL
I do like the CITO containers though.
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a beaver (not that kind!) pelt barb wired to a tree with dried blood all around!
Someone training dogs for hunting maybe? Didn't think people hunted beavers, just trapped themso why would anyone do something like this?! That's just weird!
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This was sort of creepy
What is that? Looks like someone with flip flops on laying under a red sheet.
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If they physically go there and find it again, why not?
Because they already found it once. We are talking about the same cache, same coords, same location, just a slightly different name and cache type. They would be logging the same logbook that they signed before. I guess I don't see the point in that, but others can do what they want, I suppose.
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This even applies if the new listing is for the same container, and the same coords. The bottom line is that a unique listing is a unique cache.
I'd refine that even more and say, a new listing with the same container, same coords can be a unique listing but is not always a unique cache.
We had a multi cache here that was made into a new cache. Same container, same location but the first leg of the multi was taken off and the coords go straight to the cache now. I found it previously when it was the old cache. The same but new cache kept coming up in my searches of new cache listings. So I had to go back to the old archived cache, turn that log into a note and log a FOUND IT on the new cache. Some people logged both as finds though. I don't understand that nor why the owner didn't just redesign the cache page to reflect that it was no longer a multi. I think it's because once you set a cache as a certain type of cache, you can't change it to another type of cache. That's the only reason I can think of. But allowing people to log both caches is not right either.
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Did you find your lost GPSr yet, Prissy?
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You're very creative! I like the pack! Wish I had the skills to make things like that myself.
I also love the tshirt! I think I could whip myself up something like that.
Themed caches are great! Good idea on the color themes!
Just remember, don't put that candy in a cache. No food or smelly stuff are allowed in caches.
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Any luck with finding the owner?
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HAHAHAHA!!
I've known Pip for a long time and we've always told her she was cute as a bug! See Pip..we're not the only ones that think so! LOL
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They also have 3 tb's in their possession. I'd say the owners might as well count them lost. It would be surprising if they showed up in another cache anytime soon, if at all.
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Going by some of the things I see left in caches, some people think anything that they can get cheap (meaning mainly free) and in huge quantities would make good cache swag. Usually that ends up being alot of stuff made out of some sort of paper. Business cards, drink coasters, playing cards, etc. Others think other cheap items are ok like used hotwheels, used or broken McToys, the list goes on and on. It would be ok with me if people left this kind of stuff in a cache but only if they didn't trade them for something else out of the cache. I have yet to find anything of great value made out of paper in a cache, except signature cards. Signature cards are good but that's about the extent of paper items that seem acceptable to me.
This guy taking his own trade item out of a cache that he visited earlier just makes me laugh. I'd say he doesn't have much to trade with and is recycling those cards to use in other caches. He gets out of having to come up with something better to use as swag. It gets pretty bad when you have to do CITO on your own caches to keep out the trash.
**TRADE UP, TRADE EQUAL OR DON'T TRADE**
Cool Idea - Search By Proximity
in General geocaching topics
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I thought of the same thing a while back before one of our events. My only alternative was to go through local caches and send emails to anyone that I wasn't sure if they were on our local geocachers email group. It was a pain in the butt to do. But I really like the idea of having a simpler way of getting ahold of members that don't know our email group exists.