Raenne
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Moving a rock to look under it and then carefully putting the rock back where it was is a 'scorched earth tactic'???...all from veteran geocachers who are not noted for scorched earth tactics.
If one of the scorched earthers were to roll through the area it will probably be a total disaster.
Wow.
He was specifically saying that the movement and replacement of rocks was -not- a scorched earth tactic, and that even though it was a group of careful geocachers who replaced things as they found, you can still tell things were moved.
Seems you missed a bit of the statement in your haste to bold a single sentence.
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When I have to type something long (like a character story for an online game I play), typing it into a word processing program first, like Word or Works, is much easier. Then, I can...wait for it....cut and paste!
Let me get this straight: you are blaming HD for not knowing ahead of time that the Groundspeak site is broken? And laughing at him, to boot?
Geez.
No, I was suggesting something that has worked for me in the past when writing something long and important to me and posting it on a sometimes unreliable internet connection. I placed no blame. I offered a suggestion for the future if he was so inclined.
And the laugh was for the cut-and-paste joke. I was far from laughing at him.
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Well. I'm done with writing nice logs! I will now be using the cut and paste "Found cache. Thanks."
I was working on my second longest log ever. It took some time. Finished and submitted it, and was told that I had timed out. I lost everything that I had written. It's no wonder that people do not leave nice logs. Geocaching does not encourage it. In fact, Geocaching actively discourages it!! That's it. I'm done trying to leave nice logs.
When I have to type something long (like a character story for an online game I play), typing it into a word processing program first, like Word or Works, is much easier. Then, I can...wait for it....cut and paste!
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Your right with the 440 feet but i am only 40 feet to near by the next cache and that cach isnt aktive. The cache was removed by someone some time ago and wasnt replaced yet .... thats why i still didnt. move and i am waiting for answer how to react now ...
Is the cache disabled temporarily? Or archived? If the cache is merely disabled, you cannot place a new cache within the minimum distance. Perhaps this is the concern the reviewer has? I think patience is the key here.
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Insinuated, not insulated
You'd have to find a way to hint at the fact that you need good hearing to find the cache, without giving it away.
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I think that's a fantastic idea!
My only concern would be somehow insinuating on the cache page that the ability to hear would be required for finding the cache, without giving away too much.
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You can add a "Found It" log. You don't have to edit your NM log. I've done a "Found" log, then a "Needs Maintenance" right after it. Just hit "Log Your Visit" again and select "Found It" this time.
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Hi! I'm Raenne (pronounced "rain", in case you were concerned about that sort of thing ;P ). I'm female, 29, married with a 2 year old son. I work in a hospital laboratory as a lab tech. When your doctor orders lab tests like blood sugars, cholesterol, or PSAs on your blood, I'm the one that does the tests.
If I remember correctly, I found out about geocaching a few years ago while doing a Google search for "scavenger hunt" trying to find ideas. I only remembered it this year while at an electronics store and saw GPSs on sale. I came back to geocaching.com and the rest is history.
I lurk. I am a lurker
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I think the big thing is the "Take one Leave One" that is the worst. There is a TB hotel near me that I am just dying to go to, because there are at least 10 TBs/geocoins logged into that cache and the rule stated by the cacher is to only take one and leave one in exchange. I just want to go there and take them all and send them all on their way!
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Raenne is my gaming name, and I love the phonetics of it.
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Added mine.
29, for the record
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Can someone please tell me why this man has not been banned yet? I have a lovely private message from him, too.
And, to keep this on topic, I think that PVC pipes would be fantastic containers, except for the fact that you have to rely on someone closing it right!
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Congratulations Raenne, you've just convinced me to not bother with the forums. Pat yourself on the back, your policy of inclusion and accepting everyone has just driven someone off. I hope that was exactly what you meant to accomplish by attacking me, because otherwise you're kind of an idiot.
You know, this really is kind of sad. You call my words personal attacks, yet you referenced Special Olympics in a poor tone, advocated not "coddling" stupid people, various versions of "dumb", "lame", and "time-wasting". You called me an idiot. I actually gave you credit for your cache hides, while disagreeing with you.
If you leave this forum, then perhaps it is for the best. But don't pretend I drove you away from a place you obviously did not want to be in in the first place.
May your creativity and zest for clever and memorable hides be what you are remembered for, not your unfortunate attitude.
Good luck to you.
As much as you don't want to hear it.
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This is not the Special Olympics. You do not get a prize just for showing up.
You invalidate any argument you may have (and I see your point in saturation, and agree with you to a point.) with comments like this. You don't get any prizes in this game. Your prize is what you get out of it, the journey, the places you see, the logs you read, and the trackables you may move.
Without some Simon Cowell to balance out people like you's Paula Abdul routine, you know what we end up? A world full of incompetant scerew-ups...Hyperbole much? You cannot possibly equate the problems this world has with nano caches in public parks.
I have zero interest in "belonging to a communityThen why are you here? If all you want to do is hide and find caches that make you happy and fulfill your vision of this game, then do so. But do not attempt to justify your negativity with some pessimistic nonsense about how horrible it is that people on this forum attempt to improve the geocaching by being helpful and welcoming to newbies who NEED TO LEARN. Don't participate in the forums, then. I'm not forcing you to hold my hand.
Take your hypocritical bs somewhere else sister.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Go look up the word hypocritical, then come back here and realize that the hypocrite here is you. You post that you want to improve the game, and yet you whine about nano caches sucking. How about you TEACH people? E-mail the cache hider and offer help? Try to inspire others with your own creativity. You obviously are passionate about this hobby, but have a poor way of showing it.
And, for the record, please don't equate my comments to you with those comparing you to Hitler. Those were out of line in my opinion, and not necessary.
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They're the people who are ruining the hobby for everyone else with their crapches.
On the contrary, it is snobbish elitist attitudes like yours that make newbies cringe at the thought of being looked down upon for not playing a game properly.
People who get upset that someone beat them to "their" spot and placed a cache there first are ruining the hobby for everyone new who wants to be part of a community, and instead sees attitudes like yours as representative of what to expect.
Shame on you.
Select a new spot. With all the work you put into your cache, it is inevitable that if you are as great a cache hider as you say you are, your cache will be enjoyed. Too bad such a fantastic sounding cache has to be sullied by the attitude of its owner.
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These are replicas of the Portas de Cidades ("Gates of the City"), a monument in the city of Ponta Delgada, on the island of Saint Michael (Sao Miguel), Azores. Ponta Delgada was declared Sister City to the city this replica resides in, Fall River, MA.
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I manage to casually geocache, play World of Warcraft (an online multiplayer roleplaying game), as well as work a full time job and be a mom to a toddler
Who says you can only have one hobby? ;P
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What, exactly, is the purpose of the skirt anyway?
I've seen plenty of lamp posts without them, or with slabs of concrete as "skirts" instead.
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And I continue to say, a bomb would never be a LPC micro. What would be the point in putting a firecracker in the middle of a parking lot?
Oh, I agree.
But can a non-geocaching bomb squad afford such an assumption?
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Now it doesn't say if they were trading with it, but they had a bunch of kids, so I am sure they took something and just left a silly wooden token
In your second sentence of the original post, you drew assumptions about the cacher's intentions based on information you admit you do not have. If they had kids, they must have taken a bunch of stuff and left nothing but a token. You don't know that.
Wooden tokens aren't bullswag either. Perhaps to you, but not to many.
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The Bomb Squads are doing their job. It is better to blow up a harmless box of toys and paper than not blow up something that could do damage to property or people. Once they are called in, unless it is truly obvious that the item in question is not a bomb (and a camouflaged, tube-shaped item certainly looks like one), they will destroy it.
When the media bombards the public dailies with nothing but the worst, they come to expect nothing but.
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That is what I am saying. They are not trade items. Now, possibly they left a toy or trinket or two, but the report showed them only leaving a token.
I have nothing wrong with leaving a token, but it would have been good of reporters to mention that if you take something, you should leave something of equal value.
If some one takes something cool like lets say a pack of glow in the dark ceiling stars, a wooden nickle to me would not be a good trade.
If you want to trade, and are going to leave a wooden token, you should take a wooden token.
I have no problem with took nothing left token.
I'm not sure it is a good idea, nor fair, to draw conclusions about the intentions of or the actions of a cacher when the only information you have is from a flavor story reporter for a local newscast, who edit things down to easy, 30 second feel-good story bits.
You don't truly know what the cachers left and/or took, so I don't really think it is fair to assume. You are correct in saying that it would have been good of the reporters to mention some of the various "rules" about trading fairness and the hunt being about thrills, and not toys. However, to expect such detail from a non-caching news reporter who is told to distill the story down for the public isn't fair to the newscaster, nor the cachers in question.
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I'm not a veteran by any stretch of the imagination, but it is my understanding that those wooden tokens serve as signature items for some cachers, and there are some folks who do indeed want them.
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I am a new geocacher by most of the standards I've seen on this forum (47 finds), however, I do plan on a hide very soon. There is a trail that winds along an inactive, unused railroad track behind the town hall of my town. There is already a micro on one part of the trail, placed by a prolific and skilled caching team in my area (4Swans). I hope to hide a small or regular sized cache (thinking one with a haiku theme, where cachers can contemplate on haikus written by previous cachers and add one of their own).
I try very hard to make sure that my actions as a finder are representative of the true spirit of geocaching, and I also hope to make my hide memorable enough that I will be thought of not as a newbie with a penchant for throwing film cans out windows, but as someone with only a few hides that have true meaning.
I am in the vast minority, I am sure.
But then again, I like being a bit off the norm ;P
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That's far from saying it's scorched earth tactics. Anyone who knows an area can tell things have been moved, even if care has been taken to try and replace things as they were. You can see slight shifts in the dirt where the rock has been disturbed. That doesn't mean cachers are scorching the earth.