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Alternative to boilerplate logs from the Intro App: pings. A ping would be a rather robotic Found It log like "Ping! User X registered a find". Pings would be invisible to anyone but the finder and the CO, so the CO gets the benefit of knowing the cache still exists whilst not diluting (in the eyes of prospective future finders) the collection of real logs waxing lyrical about the cache. Apart from the invisible ink, pings are full/genuine finds. Too late to change, no doubt, but interested nonetheless in your thoughts: would pings, making default logs basically invisible, have suited you better than "That's one more find for me! ..." ?

Fixable thus: reward the CO with one FP to spend for every two her caches receive.

Yes. And when that happens, the effect is permanent: years later, the decaying cache still has its little collection of points/stars from the CO's friends. It would be nice if gc.com also indicated "what's hot" now, minus the distortion of historic favouritism.

Very clever. They differ, however, in only the latter have a recognised lowercase form in Chambers and the OED.

AFAIK, words that must be capitalised have never been allowed in the official Scrabble words list, so it must be a word I've never heard of, "zen", in the final, rather than the original "Zen". Hmm.

A little hard to do this accurately, but "geocache" appears to be beating "zen" comfortably. Recent voting is seeing "zen" gain some ground, though.

I can't look at the word the same way now. Sounds like "geocake" in my head now. Seems "GEOCACHE" is going to be the clear winner. It was close for the first 200 votes.

I'm betting (no money, and certainly no recently-defeated bitcoins) on "zen" vs "ew" in the final.

Any GC codes for these? I'm searching for the Username Bonham and Bonhams and it's bringing nothing up. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?u=The+Bonhams

As a compromise, the intro app could prompt the user at start-up for a default log. It would be good sport to track the worst of 'em on OT

July 2013 Cache: River Nidd, Darley – Forest Stone Marker (GC4FN8Q) Photographer: MikeyG. August 2013 Cache: Chess Cress (GC2W9J7) Photographer: Clue-72 September 2013 Cache: H & G 6 ( formally Fort Micro #13 (Fort Darnett) ) (GC1DQY3) Photographer: Splendidz October 2013 Cache: Hardwick (GC4FBGP) Photographer: Happy Humphrey November 2013 Cache: Kinder Gates (GC1DGB0) Photographer: sussamb December 2013 Cache: Ford Prefect (GC3MBQ3) Photographer: I!

January 2013 Cache: Old Connahs Quay to Buckley Line - Mold Road (GC24E3D) Photographer: martin&lindabryn February 2013 Cache: Unst Bus Shelter (GC1TK5D) Photographer: duncanhoyle March 2013 Cache: Walking to Jerusalem:Finale (GC40N51) Photographer: Happy Humphrey April 2013 Cache: The Beast of Beccles (GC3CFXA) Photographer: fuzzybears May 2013 Cache: Mull:The Old Byre (GC2805Q) Photographer: milvus-milvus June 2013 Cache: FULL STEAM AHEAD (GC1Y1CZ) Photographer: The Blorenges

There's this, which I need to update ...

The latter. Here's hoping the other puzzle caches near you are easier!

Did you apply some funky post-processing to that? It looks unreal, like an illustration in an old book, being a bit grainy and oversaturated. I like it.

And can you show us the cache page? (If "cache page" is even the right notion - I'm completely in the dark.)

Ah, right. Then (and I suppose this has been said before too) it's not really a cache, is it? Geocaching is a community game. This seems like ... I don't know ... groundspeaking?

I didn't see anything there about visibility of the found/archived cache. Once found, will others be able to see it? I couldn't see the Lab Cache finds on your profile (for example).

Well that was fun. Now, remembering that this competition was as much about the story behind the cache as it was the photo ... ... in third place, with my favourite photo, little-leggs and GC9349 Gold Hill (Dorset) ... in second place, with points for fooling me into thinking, at first, "he's cheated!" because it was so sunny, and for placing his own cache where the archived one once sat, CaveBadgerMan and GC278F Lacock (Wilts) ... and the winner, by virtue of a good photo and, miraculously, actually finding the cache nearly seven years after the listing was archived, duncanhoyle and GC6012 A drive in the country Thank you to all entrants and well done to those three in particular for a tricky judging challenge! Over to duncanhoyle for next month's competition and, perhaps, a return to photo comp sanity.

Looks like the spine of an enormous dinosaur! Nice one, Gackt

Very impressed with this one, especially as you managed to find the container nearly seven years after archiving! Out of interest, I wonder what the previous finder meant by "I think that I understand why it was archived" -- can you shed some light? Competition's hotting up ... looking forward to more great discoveries this weekend

Nice photo, dodgydaved, but it's too old by a margin of 10+ years!

Oh, nice find. I didn't know about the Fovant Badges. Good spot for a cache

Good - some competition! Thanks, flipflopnick. Fingers crossed for a few more entries over the weekend.