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You might want to check out Dan's Stats page... A search there would tell you if this person is in the habit of deleting their logs, since when a log is deleted on GC.com, Dan's site still keeps a record of it...
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Originally posted by nincehelser:quote:
Originally posted by Corp Of Discovery:1st- Slather? who actually says that?
I, for one. I would assume many others who tend to lay it on pretty thick.
Hmmm....
Problems with "slather" and "onus"...just what is the literacy level around here?
George
Well, if you want to slather it on, then the onus is on you to make your oration understandable.
If you want to mince words over the level of literacy (oh, my: a lovely little level of alliteration...)
go find the Californian who wanted to teach Ebonics as a second language.... Otherwise, you're getting into the same kind of generalizations as she did.
</comeback>
PS. Aren't statistics grand? With just a little bit of creativity you can make them say whatever you want.... My favorite was a mobile phone company who adverised that 8 out of 10(*) people preferred their service.....
(*)"Of their current customers" ---Always read the fine print....
[This message was edited by Team VE on July 28, 2003 at 07:51 PM.]
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Originally posted by nincehelser:Clues for the clueless:
Look up the caches in the area and read some of the logs.
Well, if she wanted to talk about LOCAL caches instead of making broad global blanketing statements, why didn't she post it to the West and Southwest Forum?
Instead she chose to broadcast her little sermon far and wide. Ignoring that (IMHO) most geocachers already are very aware of the environment and how to interact with it. ( I chose not to say 'minimize our impact' because to me that is an oxymoron, because as oxygen breathing omnivorous mammals, we're as much as part of the environment as anything you'll find on her 'Ranch' )
</Windmill Tilting>
Of course, unless she has notifications turned on, the whole thing is probably moot anyway because, given the tone of her message, I would bet she has no plans to ever come back and see how we've responded.....
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I see 2 options here
1. Troll
2. Eco-Twit who didn't bother to read the rest of the website anyway...
"New Sport" yeah, right..... Been around longer than some of those new 'X-treme' (I guess that refers to the amount of eco-damage they do) 'sports' like Rogaining....
Ooooh... I know.... Let's call GeoCaching an 'Eco-Challenge' like the Rogainers do and THEN the Eco-Police will like us!
</sarcasm>
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There's still problems with both ways...
Method 1 Won't find an account that hasn't logged any caches as 'Finds' yet.
Method 2 Won't find an account that hasn't hidden any caches yet.
It would be nice to have a simple profile search link that would eliminate these limitations....
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Originally posted by cachew nut:It seems that lower end Garmin units use a patch antenna. These units tend to have trouble under tree cover.
<snip>
The higher end Garmin units use a different antenna similar to the one in the Magellan units, and generally do not have the same trouble with tree cover. You get what you pay for.
What I find funny is that when I go caching with my brother in law, who has a 'higher end Garmin' he often loses his lock while my good old plain eTrex yellow doesn't when we go into the trees.....
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Originally posted by Cacheola Crew:Those on your cache page are actually the ones on your watch list. Not necessarily all you've found.
Nope. Wrong. I know. I've got quite a few bugs on my watch list, because I like to watch and see where they go, even if I get skunked on finding them when they're nearby.
On the 'My Cache Page' ONLY the ones that I have 'Found' or 'Post A Note' on show up.
So the mechanism IS there... It's just not being used....
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I just checked my cache page, and the log has been edited....
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I already checked on the cache (I wanted to log the TB that they had brought, for personal reasons) and had come to the same conclusion as you did zoltig. They clicked the wrong button
I didn't really want to clutter up the page with more notes, but I suppose that that's another way to handle it as well. But Wallflower still doesn't get credit for the cache that way....
I'm going to be away from the computer for the holiday weekend, so I probably won't actually DO anything until Monday...
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OK, I'll admit that the Subject line of this thread is a little more urgent/inflammatory than it really needs to be, but it got you to read the thread, right?
Anyway, here's my dilemma:
A (fairly) new cacher with 14 recorded finds recently logged My Cache 'Midwestern Silicon' with a fairly positive log and dropped off a travelbug. No problems there....
Except the log was entered as a "This Cache Should Be Archived" log and not a find....
I immediately emailed the cacher in question and suggested that they edit their log to fix this, unless they actually had some reason to request the cache be archived.
It will have been a week tomorrow. I'm assuming that TPTB has already looked at the log and gone 'Huh? Why?' and moved on. I just don't like having that red X hanging there at the top of the logs for various reasons.
I seem to have 3 options:
1. Wait some more (But how long?)
2. Use the sledgehammer and delete the log (Well, since it's a TCSBA it's not counting as a 'Find' for them anyway.....)
3. As for intervention by TPTB (That is if they don't take it into their own hands if they read this thread...)
I'm open for suggestions.......
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enter the tracking numbers into the lookup box on the 'Track Travel Bugs' page (That's the box next to the bar code....)
One of the tags will say that its not activated yet and the other shouold take you to the travelbug page that you created when you set it up....
Then I would recommend using a marker to label the 'Copy' tags for future reference once you release them into the wild.... I know it's saved me from the same headache before...
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Originally posted by MissJenn:<snip>
Digitally remove it from the cache and re-place it back there.
You don't even have to do that... You can just 'Post a Note' if you want it in your stats, or if you want to add to the story. Accomplishes all the same things as far as the website is concerned, and is much harder to screw up than the grab'n drop, especially if you try to clean up any of the extra logs....
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Well,
Here's a sneaky way for you....
Caches that were approved and then later archived CAN be viewed by anybody, as long as you have the GCID number...... They also don't show up on any searches.... And they DO count for Stats... (Though for Dan's page, somebody muight have to make it do a refresh on that particular cache when logged....)
Place the cache, get it approved, then archive it....
Of course, the drawback is then that the listing could also be found by looking at the logs of anyone who logs the cache.... I suppose that's where bogus/parking coordinates could come in.
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Originally posted by welch:2.I didn't have the files zipped
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I doubt its 2 as I don't even get a file!
The $1,000,000 question...
Might it be possible that you have an incoming file size limit? Many accounts do and people aren't aware of them, since often the only sign is that you just never get the messages that exceed the limit...
My search Zipped returns a 1.1 MB file (GPX is kind of blaoted with all of that extra info in there for the logs, etc....) Expanded, it's just over 2MB, and I'm only getting 300 caches....
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That IS wierd. I've had that same query running for a LONG time and havn't had a problem...
Type = all
that = Not Found & don't own
where = (Nothing)
From = (Lat/Lon of my home coords), Radius = 150
placed during = (all)
To = my email
formats = my email, GPX, ebook , zipped
Run = Friday....
Works for me.....
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We recently had a bout of plundering in this area, which made one of our leading cache placers turn most of his caches into 'Members Only'...
But since I've never made my cache (OK so I've only hidden 1 so far) a MOC, I had a question about the 'Audit' function.....
When a member gets the cache listing as part of a Pocket Query, does that show up?
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Yes for Minnesota
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Originally posted by Markwell:Yep. They ran out of 4 digit hex. Elias hasn't released what the new coding scheme is other than a vague reference to base36 or some other base.
I'd swear that elias had put out a fairly good description of the new scheme, but it appears that that topic got lost in the forum conversion.... I found a few Markwells to it, but the links were broken. And it's not turning up in my searches now....
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Good luck with your Intel Bug... If he every comes my way, I might be able to get him IN an Intel facility....
I'm just hoping that my Cleanroom Bug resurfaces (last seen in the tip of Nevada, taken by non-logging cacher(s?) the LSTroopers (and/or the Labhunters)...
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There's a few options:
1. MacGPS Pro (unfortunately there is no free version like EasyGPS vs ExpertGPS
2. If you're using OSX, check out roberlipe's gpsbabel....
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Look at Snow to Sand.
It's a delivery from Duluth, MN to Vero Beach, FL.
Got as far as the Carolinas, and then dissapeared from 7/5/2002 to 3/25/2003 when it was finally placed in California....
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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:The only problem with this is that it is only accurate when it is first generated. In our area, people can be quick to get to a cache when there is a TB available, so if you get the GPX file in the morning, by the time you leave work, some of the TBs could already be gone.
Of course, the same problem would still exist with instant bug queries too.
The data is only as fresh as when it was last entered... If that person who went and grabbed it while you were at work hasn't gotten home yet but is on an all day bug/cache hunt, you're still going to go out and find that they have beaten you there....
We have a few avid bug grabbers in this area too, so I know this all to well...
I had one where a bug I was watching was placed ina cache I was watching and I went out to get it 3 hours after it was placed.... Fortunately, I beat Centris there by 15 minutes.... If I hadn't been able to head out from work early that day, even the 'Live' data wouldn't have helped me.
So, I'm not disagreeing that there's a problem of data freshness with TB's.
I'm saying that the real source of the probelm is the time lag between when people visit a Cache/Bug and when they get to a computer to log it....
I don't think it's going to be worth the extra server load until that changes...
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Bug Trade and Virtuals?
in Trackables
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I know the cacher's you're talking about....
Notice that the post you're reffering to was a "Note" not an "I Have it"
Several of the avid bug hunters in this area have 'teamed up' and will occasionally have a gathering where they see who can help out with the mission on bugs that any of the others have. (This usually coincides with some kind of Geocaching event) If they can't help the bug out, they don't take it, but they will post the kind of 'I saw it' note that you were talking about....
The temporarily-unavailable cache you're talking about (which I'm guessing you can't see the detail on since it's members-only) says on the description page:
"8/10/03 -- Attention Bug owners -- your Travel Bug is being dropped here for mileage only. We just got back from a long road trip and are sorting out four different geocachers Travel bugs. Your bug is safe, in Minnesota and in good hands - never fear, it will move through here pretty soon.
If your Travel bug is headed to CA, WA, OR, AK - it will be going to the west coast with "John E Cache" on August 21st - please be patient while your TBug sits here (sorry).
Cache is temporarily unavailable
I will be re-working it into a bug hotel.
Any bug listed is just here for trading purposes."
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