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    How many days after you became a GC.com member

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    When I discovered Geocaching, I was so interested that I looked through every corner of this site. I read the Guidelines, I read about how to find a cache, I read about how to hide a cache, I read the FAQ, I read through the knowledge-books and then I went back and read the Guidelines again. There's a lot of information to be found in those documents.

     

    A lot of newbies ask questions that are answered in these documents. I have no problem with helping the people who are new to this sport. Someone who has never heard of Geocaching before would have a lot of questions. I do, however, have problems with helping people who lack common sense, or people who do not wish to help themselves. Newbies who ask questions that are easily found on geocaching.com show they did not look very hard for the answer and they just want us to give them the answer. I have problems with people who decide: "Thinking is so old school."

     

    I wholeheartedly agree with and endorse this comment.

     

    aww face it, it gives you all something to do, a reason to stay online at night, a sense of community when you can team up against the new guy, even if he is a jerk in an online forum, where social rules do not apply, but people seem to think they should.

     

    in real life i think we would all be real good friends,

     

    I really don't think so.

    I am very anti-social.

    I dislike people that annoy me online.

    I dislike people that annoy me in the real world.

     

    Your mistake is assuming that people are different

    the term muggles....

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    is stolen from harry potter, is it not?

     

    so geocaching was invented when?

     

    and harry potter was invented when?

     

    have geocachers ever been in trouble with copywrite over this nick name?

     

    Are you just trying to stir up stuff?

     

    Your short term literature knowledge is ridiculously bad.

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    yeah yeah name calling and mud slinging back and forth all day long and nobody can answer my question, where exactly does my pm $30 a year go?

     

    also,

    so there are a hundred and one geocache apps and 99.99% of them are not legal according to the forums, so how many freeloaders are there who are hiding, and finding your caches? should we ban them too?

     

    I was not bragging ftr, i was merely asking why,

     

    as for being a troll...

    arnt trolls those big hairy guys who live under bridges and eat goats?

     

    i thought i was playing the game nicely,

    finding, logging, hiding, meeting up with, discussing, and giving my hard earned money out in FTF dollar bills to the players, the people i will actually get to interact with, the people out there hiding, and finding along with me, not some random person in some office building someplace.

     

    i cant believe you guys were voting to ban me over asking where my $30 bucks for a p.m. are going,

     

    I love geocaching, im having a blast on my 2 weeks off from school hiding and finding, if i am pissing some people off because i am being vocal about some things that i feel need ot be discussed, get over it. make a real argument, rather than tell me to leave, or tell mods to give me the ban hammer.

     

    Interestingly enough, I am more than willing to meet anyone off these forums, give out my phone number, and give you my physical address, im interested in everyones opinions thats why i posted mine, and come back to read, and comment on yours, unfortunately not everyone has valid arguments, they choose instead to try and scare me away or something liek that.

     

    sorry to have offended, but suck it up, and get on with your life.

     

    the one thing i do think pm'ers get non-pmers dont is the ftf notifications, only one person mentioned that, as far as i know its sort of an unspoken rule to leave a dollar in your cache when you first hide it, or something of real value, for the first person to find, so i left one in both of mine, (even though the second person to find my first cache took off with it) theres $2 i just donated to the game of geocaching, ive got $28 left, after I hide 30 caches, with a dollar in each, i should automatically get PM status, as i have donated $30 to the game.

     

    Wow.. you really are clueless and have no idea how to play nice.

    My only fear is that once you have been rejected from the community you will become a cache maggot.

    I am glad I live a long way away from you.

    Im sick of micros....

    in General geocaching topics

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    I'm barely old enough to be a mother, I don't think I'm old enough (or the right gender) to be a grandfather! Another thing, its harder to have a high IQ if you are still in school learning. Don't be unfair to us younger cachers!

    Harder but not impossible. I had a 120 IQ when I was in 3rd grade

    I was spouting off quantum theorems at 1 week! What? You find that hard to believe? I'm sure I was in some language...

    Hey, maybe you were but the fact of the matter is that you weren't quantifiably tested at one week. I was in the third grade.

     

    I've been a member of Mensa since I was in grade 3. They sought me out.

     

    After typing that I realize that Americans say third grade and we Canadians say grade three.

     

    odd...

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    It's massively different than advertising on TV.

     

    Is your viewing this website interrupted every ten minutes for five minutes before you can continue to view it?

     

    Not even comparable. Besides. I don't know a single person who does not pay for cable and that costs at least $30 a month.

     

    And, The people that don't pay for cable don't ask why they should.

    I guess thats where we are different. I know people who don't pay for cable. (and no, they don't steal cable either)

     

    Where I live, if you don't pay for cable you get 3 channels and all of them fuzzy and bad.

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

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    I read what you are saying and understand but, did anyone lay money out of their pocket for you to watch a sunrise or any of the other things you mentioned? no.

     

    I may have exaggerated by saying it was the cheapest form of entertainment... but... Nature doesn't count.

    Lets not get too deep here.

    Look at the top, right of the forum page. Notice that banner?

    That's called "advertising" which, arguably, isn't any different than the commercials on TV.

     

    It's massively different than advertising on TV.

     

    Is your viewing this website interrupted every ten minutes for five minutes before you can continue to view it?

     

    Not even comparable. Besides. I don't know a single person who does not pay for cable and that costs at least $30 a month.

     

    And, The people that don't pay for cable don't ask why they should.

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

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    I paid for a premium membership less than a month into registering here. I haven't even used PQs yet.

    I may someday but I mostly use my iPhone to find them and my legend to hide them.

     

    My premium membership expires around Christmas this year. Will I be broke then? probably.

    Will I renew my PM? Without a doubt.

     

    This is the cheapest entertainment I have ever used. The website is for the most part, excellent.

    I like the forums and I like the usability for finding and listing caches.

     

    I spend about $30 a day in gas for work.

     

    I can't understand how someone feels OK with using a service and not paying for it when you are satisfied with it.

     

    As for the OP... I think anyone that breaks the rules and then flaunts it on the very website who's rules he is breaking is...well.... Not the sharpest knife in the drawer and TPTB should do what they should do.

     

    I've never paid a dime to watch a sunset or listen to the sound of the ocean waves crashing.

    I didn't pay any money to watch a nuclear reactor cooling tower implode.

    I didn't pay a dime to watch a solar eclipse. Nor did I pay to watch geese migrating.

    I never paid any money to smell roses in bloom. I didn't pay any money to hear a childs laughter.

    It cost me nothing to see a volcano erupt and it was completely free to explore a lava tube (or two).

     

    All of those things were much more enjoyable than my best day geocaching.

     

    I read what you are saying and understand but, did anyone lay money out of their pocket for you to watch a sunrise or any of the other things you mentioned? no.

     

    I may have exaggerated by saying it was the cheapest form of entertainment... but... Nature doesn't count.

    Lets not get too deep here.

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

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    Haha, I was just thinking about some things I've read here in tha past...It's actually pretty funny that while people who can play for free often question the value of paying, there are a good number of paid members who would be willing to pay twice as much for what they get.

     

    Are these the same kind of folks who buy one and get the second free even when they did not need the first one?

     

    No. They are the people who realize what a great value they are getting for their $30.

     

    And if GS chooses to allow people to play (legally) for free/$10 and those people do not see the "great value" in the $30 because they get everything they need? Why should they pay? And again if you feel that you have to "support the site" perhaps we should be asking GS why they are giving it away for free/$10? How many of you watch and enjoy television? do you all donate $30 a year just to support it? No. Would you gladly pay your cable company twice for what you get? No. You pay the $30 PM because you get something out of it and if somebody else feels that the $30 is not worth it then it's time to get all high and mighty on them.

     

    The television and this website comparison doesn't work. TV stations make their money from advertising. Do you have to watch 5 minutes of commercials for every 10 minutes of looking at this website? no.

     

    Besides, I pay $150 a month to watch TV and still have to watch commercials.

    so with smartphones premium membership benefits may be obsolete

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I paid for a premium membership less than a month into registering here. I haven't even used PQs yet.

    I may someday but I mostly use my iPhone to find them and my legend to hide them.

     

    My premium membership expires around Christmas this year. Will I be broke then? probably.

    Will I renew my PM? Without a doubt.

     

    This is the cheapest entertainment I have ever used. The website is for the most part, excellent.

    I like the forums and I like the usability for finding and listing caches.

     

    I spend about $30 a day in gas for work.

     

    I can't understand how someone feels OK with using a service and not paying for it when you are satisfied with it.

     

    As for the OP... I think anyone that breaks the rules and then flaunts it on the very website who's rules he is breaking is...well.... Not the sharpest knife in the drawer and TPTB should do what they should do.

    Should there be a minimum age requirement to post a cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I've been wondering why Groundspeak doesn't have a minimum age requirement in its TOU for registering an account on the site and planting/posting caches. Can we really expect a 10 year old to be a responsible cache owner?

     

    Can we expect anyone who must rely on their parents/guardians to buy the supplies (GPS, container, logbook, swag), take them to the cache (kids can't drive) to plant the cache and to maintain the cache in a timely fashion, take care of the online clues - obtain their own email account and check it often for alerts.

     

    Should there be a check box when posting a cache that says:

     

    O I am 18 years of age or older

    kids can mow lawns for the money and can ride their bicycles to the site.

    however they should not be taking readings with their crappy iphones.

     

    I would like to know the percentage of iPhone owners vs the percentage of people that don't have an iPhone who call them "crappy".

     

    :P

     

    I don't own a iPhone because I think they are crappy. :P

     

    I would discuss your uneducated opinion here but it would be off topic.

    Have you modified your vehicle for geocaching?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Haven't modified anything but I have driven small cars most of my life (aside from a muscle car phase).

    I recently bought a 4 wheel drive SUV and one of the reasons was because I could use it to get to some of the more off road caches.

     

    It's just a bonus that it has lots of places to store swag and a convenient place for my GPSr to rest safely on the dash without sliding around.

    Should there be a minimum age requirement to post a cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I've been wondering why Groundspeak doesn't have a minimum age requirement in its TOU for registering an account on the site and planting/posting caches. Can we really expect a 10 year old to be a responsible cache owner?

     

    Can we expect anyone who must rely on their parents/guardians to buy the supplies (GPS, container, logbook, swag), take them to the cache (kids can't drive) to plant the cache and to maintain the cache in a timely fashion, take care of the online clues - obtain their own email account and check it often for alerts.

     

    Should there be a check box when posting a cache that says:

     

    O I am 18 years of age or older

    kids can mow lawns for the money and can ride their bicycles to the site.

    however they should not be taking readings with their crappy iphones.

     

    I would like to know the percentage of iPhone owners vs the percentage of people that don't have an iPhone who call them "crappy".

     

    :P

    Should there be a minimum age requirement to post a cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I would say when they can be reasonably maintain the cache without assistance from other, such as getting parents to drive them. So I would say 16 or 17. BUT... when kids start caching at a young age I think we can expect them to be able to place caches very well when they are younger. Someone who grew up caching from age 4 can probably place a better cache than a 45 year old who has been caching for 2 months.

     

    ^ I think that's about right.

     

    Besides, Do you really want more rules (or "guidelines")?

    How about a rule that only certain containers can be used? etc...

    run ins with the law

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    You do know there is a search function right? even though it is a highly useless one.

    You might try browsing the forums to seek answers before posting questions.

     

    Not trying to discourage you. I consider myself a newbie to this forum myself.

     

    Your enthusiasm is refreshing.

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