daggr

I can't tell if your "by the way" is directed at my comment that I sent her a message... my message was definitely just neutral, just one question about the visits, and I asked nothing else. I suppose I'm not against visits as you described... but we're going on 30 caches here and I personally find that unreasonable. There are no photos, no logs. Just "took it to xx cache." I find those pretty boring. But yes, I can see how it would be comforting to know it's still in someone's hands and is being moved around. On the other hand, there's no reason to believe it's not lost since the app automatically marks it as visiting. It doesn't necessarily mean the TB is with the cacher.

I've released two travel bugs in the past. Each lasted a little while (One made it to Austria!) and then disappeared. I know the pain of missing TB's!

I couldn't help myself... I emailed the cacher a nice message asking if they were using an app with "auto-visit" and that's exactly the case. They are using an Android c:geo app and it automatically logs that the trackable has visited every. single. cache. that they log as a find. That's all I asked; I didn't ask if she still had it, what her plans were for it, or anything, but she volunteered that she would be dropping it in a cache this weekend. Not thrilled with all the pointless logs, but oh well. What can you do

We set a trackable out into the wild a few weeks ago. It was immediately taken to an event, so we were inundated with people that "discovered it." Annoying, but fine, whatever. The person who actually took it, though, is just logging all of these "xx took it to xx cache." and not dropping it in. Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind this? They've taken it to 25 caches for a visit! For what?? Is there some kind of stat that correlates to carrying a TB around like a little puppy in a purse? I realize once you set a TB out into the wild it's no longer in your control, but I'm completely baffled as to why this feature exists. Just drop the d@#$ thing already. Sorry for the rant.