larimda

Yep. If there is a real problem (e.g., lack of adequate permission or a missing cache with no CO response), then it doesn't matter which account posted the NA log. If there isn't a real problem (e.g., "LPCs suck" or "T5 caches are unfair"), then it doesn't matter which account posted the NA log. I don't talk about such obviously inadequate postings, they will be ignored by anyone. If you want to have a look on such a posting, take this one for example. The text looks pretty similar to typical reviewer postings and the (fake) user name "Approov" looks similar to an existing well-known reviewer nickname ("Approver"). I don't think that any reviewer likes the idea that some sock puppet hides himself behind his good name while forcing COs to shut down caches ... And there are much more of this kind.

Thank you for your support. I hope that GS regards other countries' issues as serious as US domestic issues. If there is any question about this topic, I will gladly explain it directly.

Those sock puppet accounts in our area who try to shut down high rated caches (especially LPCs and T5 caches, but also famous caches like the "First Germany" GC77) with threatening NA posts have 0 finds or just a couple of online find logs without real log entries in cache containers. That kind of people who love to disturb or destroy things just for fun because of some brain insanity or by personal retribution reasons against the COs do not use this fake account for real geocaching. It's just a very cheap feature request to make it a little bit more difficult to abuse GC accounts. And I'm sure that neither any real geocacher nor GS wants anybody to abuse the GC platform.

Recently I noticed a growing number of NA postings by GC "members" who - according to their profiles - don't have any finds. From my personal point of view, there are several things to be said about this phenomenon: 1. If they are really totally unexperienced members, how were they able to gain the experience to decide whether to post a NA or not? 2. If they are not unexperienced users, already found a lot of caches and - as a result - are able to decide this, why don't they log their finds in order to prove that they don't run fake accounts? 3. If a fake account or an unexperienced user posts a NA, why should GS or any reviewer react to this posting? If a cache really violates the GS guidelines, there will surely be enough experienced members who post a NA themselves. But it is most likely that NA postings by unexperienced or fake users result from other reasons than any violation to GS guidelines - and therefore are in fact themselves a violation against the GS guidelines as far as I do understand them. From my point of view, such postings are not much more than spam and should at least be ignored. And from my point of view it would be an improvement to relieve the reviewers - along with the whole community - from such spam postings. Probably the easiest way to achieve this, is to restrict the ability to post a NA to members with a specified minimum of finds - e.g. 50. Additionally I would suggest to ban member accounts without any finds, but a couple of NA postings instead, since they are most likely fake accounts, created only to attack some cache owners or the geocaching community as a whole.