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>What functionality would you consider essential to a logged-in geocaching dashboard (private profile)?
View from a www.geocaching.com user on a PC ... some non-essential nice-to-haves:
- What events are <1 month away in my local area? How many people have signed-up so far?
- What caches have been placed recently in my local area? How many finds, DNFs and favourites so far?
- Quick links to forum topics I'm watching, plus an indicator by each of recent activity levels.
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- What events are <1 month away in my local area? How many people have signed-up so far?
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Or did I miss something about this proposal?
Fixable thus: reward the CO with one FP to spend for every two her caches receive.
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... Gold Star favorite points is that they might exaggerate an already existing problem with favorite points ... some geocachers have a very strong tendency to give favorite points to friends' caches, regardless of the quality of those caches
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.
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Lowercase zen is a bit like lowercase puritan.
Very clever. They differ, however, in only the latter have a recognised lowercase form in Chambers and the OED.
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I would have thought that Zen would already be in the scrabble dictionary.
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.
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A little hard to do this accurately, but "geocache" appears to be beating "zen" comfortably. Recent voting is seeing "zen" gain some ground, though.
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I can't look at the word the same way now. Sounds like "geocake" in my head now.From a scrabble player's perspective, I'm imagining Player 1 placing "ACHE," then Player 2 adding a C to spell "CACHE" and then Player 3 wiping up by adding "GEO."Seems "GEOCACHE" is going to be the clear winner. It was close for the first 200 votes.
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I'm betting (no money, and certainly no recently-defeated bitcoins) on "zen" vs "ew" in the final.
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Have a look at the 5 types, 5 sizes series and the HD series by the Bonhams.
Any GC codes for these? I'm searching for the Username Bonham and Bonhams and it's bringing nothing up.
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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
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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!
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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
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There isn't a list that I know of.
If you use the white forum search box at the top of this thread (on my screen it's above the text 'read the forum guidelines' and enter the search string 'photo competition' you'll get a list of all past photo competition threads.
There's this, which I need to update ...
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So, gaging from the cache listed above, is this a typical "puzzle cache" and I'm just in over my head, or does this one look particularly tricky?
The latter. Here's hoping the other puzzle caches near you are easier!
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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.
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1st RULE: You do not talk about GEOCACHING
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about GEOCACHING.
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If you answer the title with yes then how was it and what do you think about it?
And can you show us the cache page? (If "cache page" is even the right notion - I'm completely in the dark.)
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I asked the question earlier in the thread, and no, no one will be able to see it.
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?
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The link is now live: http://www.geocaching.com/iheartgeocaching/
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).
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Well that was fun. Now, remembering that this competition was as much about the story behind the cache as it was the photo ...
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... inthird place, with my favourite photo,little-leggsand
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... insecond 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,CaveBadgerManand
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... and thewinner, by virtue of a good photo and, miraculously, actually finding the cache nearly seven years after the listing was archived,duncanhoyleand
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.
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Looks like the spine of an enormous dinosaur! Nice one, Gackt
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Then I started looking for other archived caches that might still be there. I came up with a list of 6 with the most likely fairly close to the first one. I arrived on site after a lovely drive along remote, gated single track Northumberland lanes to find an interesting looking structure as part of a DSW. Sure enough the cache was still safe and dry so my name was added to the log and photos were taken.
The cache is http://coord.info/GC6012, placed on 03/06/2002 and archived in 2007
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
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Nice photo, dodgydaved, but it's too old by a margin of 10+ years!
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I have enjoyed looking back to see where the UK Pioneers put their caches , although this photo is not taken at GZ , GZ would just be a field ? so this is looking up at GZ from the viewing point on the A30
Oh, nice find. I didn't know about the Fovant Badges. Good spot for a cache
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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! ..." ?