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    Trying to Hide a Cache - Too Close to Another Mulitstage Cache - How Do You Know?

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by RaeRae7133

    Sounds like an entitlement problem? Other people should archive their caches so you can hide one? First come, first served.

    When I hide a cache, I know what other caches are in the area, and work around them. Yes. That includes multi and mystery caches. Though, mostly I hide caches in pretty places that have no other caches.

     

    Not looking for any one to have to archive their caches - I was just suggesting an alternative idea to the proximity guideline. If you took my post to mean otherwise, I apologize for not being more clear :unsure:

     

    I've got a decent number of finds under my belt, but it's difficult to know the placement of a final stage of a puzzle cache - I certainly don't think a cacher should have to find all the caches in an area before placing one.

     

    I totally understand the reasons for the proximity guideline, but it does make it difficult for newcomers to join in the fun - would you disagree? Perhaps Groundspeak could develop a tool to help hiders better identify nearby caches - ie, place your coordinates for the new cache, it lets you know how close other caches (including multi and puzzle caches) are from this location)?

    Trying to Hide a Cache - Too Close to Another Mulitstage Cache - How Do You Know?

    in How do I...?

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    Instead, I would love to see a rule that limits hiders from placing too many caches within a certain area.

     

    The Cache Owner of the nearby Multi that you're having problems with on your two Listings has 6 caches Hidden. What exactly would you put as the upper limit? :)

     

    That particular cache owner I think is fine. I'm looking at areas like in San Francisco, where one cache owner has basically taken over the whole city :D

    Trying to Hide a Cache - Too Close to Another Mulitstage Cache - How Do You Know?

    in How do I...?

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    Definitely reason to get frustrated :)

     

    You find that perfect spot, you develop hints and a description based on that spot, and it's 5 darn feet to close to another cache. This has happened to me with each of the 3 caches I have tried to hide. I've done research, mapped out the other nearby caches, but the darn puzzle ones get me each time.

     

    The proximity rule doesn't seem to always work. For example, in downtown San Francisco, there are TONS of unique and awesome places to hide caches - always a challenge (especially because the building make GPS signals difficult to get). So that little tiny log-only cache stuck in a planter prevents anyone else from hiding anything.

     

    Living in a densely cached area makes it hard to participate in the other side of this hobby. Sure, I could go out and hide it far away, but the chances of me being able to maintain that are much smaller.

     

    Instead, I would love to see a rule that limits hiders from placing too many caches within a certain area. Seems like a cacher takes over an entire city near me and makes it hard for anyone else to participate.

    Trying to Hide a Cache - Too Close to Another Mulitstage Cache - How Do You Know?

    in How do I...?

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    This hobby is getting awfully frustrating to me. The proximity guideline is just that - a guideline. Not a rule. I've been working to create unique caches with fun and challenging hints, only to be told that they are too close to another cache.

     

    This is my 3rd attempted hide that this has happened to. I'm sorry to say that this totally ruins the fun of the hide for me. You want to hide something in a place that you can easily maintain, that you put a lot of thought into, etc. But when it's maybe 5 feet too close to another cache - come on!

     

    I guess I'm going to stick to just finding. This is so disappointing, and I wish it wasn't like this.

    People prefer micros

    in General geocaching topics

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    I like having a record of all the caches I find - I have a display case with trinkets from all the caches I've found. For that reason, I don't really like microcaches. It's fun to find them wedged into small places, but I take a lot of joy out of finding a little trinket and leaving a trinket. I also really love swapping travel bugs, so I generally prefer larger caches.

    Objectionable Posting: You Make The Call...

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by RaeRae7133

    You and not Groundspeak, are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post or otherwise transmit via the Site. You agree not to:

     

    (a) Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, embarrassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to any other person or entity.

    This is obviously racially and ethnically objectionable.
    And the cache owner should delete it.
    Really? So if ANY person objects to ANY posting in a log, the cache owner should delete the log?

     

    If I read and object to something you wrote in your last Found It log the cache owner should delete it?

     

    Suppose I was a HUGE fan of the Carolina Panthers, and I objected to this log because in my interpretation the panther shirt worn by a gorilla makes the team look bad. Should that log be deleted too?

     

    I think that's the problem with the TOS, it's a little too open to interpretation, if you ask me. But if you read the TOS literally then yes, that post could be deleted. It would be nice to add an addendum that was something like "However, cache owners retain the ultimate right to decide what is appropriate in their cache."

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