Merged duplicate threads.
Having been a volunteer here for over ten years, I can say this. The discover function was put in place to stop the confusion that was happening at events when people wanted to log a friend's trackable. It used to be that to log a trackable, you had to grab, or retrieve, it. Then the owner had to grab it back from you. If you wanted to log one you saw in a cache, you had to retrieve it, then log it back in to to cache. This created a lot of chaos when lots of people at events wanted to log the same trackable. So Discover and Visited were introduced. Suddenly, couch potato loggers crawled out of the woodwork. It is not intended for Facebook logging, or passing around numbers on a list. It's also too hard to police people who feel entitled to abuse the system in their own ways. If you didn't actually see it n person, how could you possibly want to claim a find on it? But some people feel the need to go for false numbers. And it's unbelievably so rampant that there isn't much Groundspeak can do to stem the tide. Go with your conscience. If it feels like cheating, it probably is. I am not impressed or fooled with false discoveries. The really traveled travel bugs will know who they are. The rest have their comfy couches, and we know how to tell them apart. I just shake my head at the FB and list loggers.