Cmotitan

How do you know when a cache you've hidden is accepted?

I understand what y'all are saying, and agree. But down here in South Central Louisiana, some of the caches, or most are put in briar patches, deep in thickets, snake infested spots. Only a couple so far have actually taken their time and imagination to hide them. The rest of them seem to just throw it in the woods. One was in the bottom of a white pvc pipe stuck in the ground about 5 foot high, luckily I know south Louisiana because, when I peeked in the pvc pipe it was full of red wasp.

I know this has probably been addressed before, but why aren't the geocaching items I find, not have a geocaching logo on them? Why is this not mandatory, to have the logo on them?