mertat
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Now rescheduled to May 23rd.
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3 hours ago, Max and 99 said:
What does it mean "create new status"?
Well, if you put your cursor on it, it says "Create new content". If you hit the drop down button, it gives the options: Status and Topic
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1 hour ago, Harry Dolphin said:
Went for a geocaching hike in a NJ county park. About three miles. 3T. Eight caches. "All dogs must be on leash." Dog came running down the trail. Leapt up and hit me in the chest. "Sorry. We never see anyone hiking back here." Scared the heck out of me! I'm a senior dolphin and have some health issues. Please keep your dog on a leash!
-Yeah, I was out on a hiking trail doing some geocaches when a dog ran up to me - didn't jump on me and I didn't try to pet it. When the owner showed up he said, "I'm glad he didn't bite you." !!! Why would you NOT have a dog that bites on a leash?
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On 7/26/2019 at 9:34 AM, on4bam said:
I ignore the "promotions" and yet they "litter" my souvenirs page (until I hide them).
I ignore geotours and ignored the "shoe" caches.
I like geocaching but since GS has a monopoly, I'm stuck here. I don't have to like what GS does to enjoy the work of CO's. I see GS as the platform/database of the stuff I use to go caching. The day there's another platform I can use, I'm out of here, until then, I'll stay.
What are "shoe" caches?
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8 minutes ago, kunarion said:
All of your caches including archived caches will be in your Profile for all to see. And previous cache logs, such as "DNF" will be listed in a Finder's Profile. The archived cache listing is still shown, although any listing will display its link lined-out.
Also, if a Finder knows the GC code, they can visit the page directly, by typing a web address in the form of "https://coord.info/GC1XE27". I've done similar things after referring to things I've written in my cache notebook.
Or if you have the GC code, you can enter it directly into the "Search the millions of geocaches worldwide" box
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2 hours ago, HHL said:
Do not click "View Larger Map".
Click "For online maps > Geocaching.com Map" instead.Hans
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Thank you!
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4 hours ago, Clancy's Crew said:
We have done a few Earth Caches over the years, since they are intellectually stimulating and almost always in unusual locations. Most recent was an EC in central Mexico, at a cave that we were visiting to rappel anyway. Although the rappelling wasn't required for logging, we got some interesting pictures on the bottom that people never get a chance to see from the edge, 1,100 feet above. Nine foot pile of bird guano at the bottom of the pit; you don't see that too often!
Sótano de las Golondrinas, https://coord.info/GC3JMJ7Awesome pictures! Not something I'd ever be able to do.
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Okay, I've been reading this thread but hadn't been able to see the new search until today so this has probably already been covered but I don’t honestly remember. I was doing a search of all caches by a particular cacher. On the current/old system there are 27 caches, 4 of which are currently disabled and I get a list of all of them. When I do a search using the new system, I get shown 2 caches. What gives?
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17 minutes ago, niraD said:
And I don't care about the bugs in the CHS. Those bugs should be fixed. Logging practices should not be dictated by them.
This.
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17 hours ago, IceColdUK said:
Ridiculous. I’d be tempted to delete the log and ask them nicely to re-log ‘properly’.
Except all they'd have to do is appeal to GS to have their legitimate log reinstated.
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2 hours ago, Elektrazz said:2 hours ago, TriciaG said:
In a vacuum of information, there's nothing wrong with that cache name. It could refer to sports/performance cars, speed boats, ATVs... all sorts of toys for adults. It doesn't have to refer to sexual stuff.
It is at an adult toy shop.....
Um, you might want to check your facts. It actually seems to be at Bair's Powersports.
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7 hours ago, fizzymagic said:
I live in the same area as dprovan. Like him, I consider myself lucky. But I would bet that if I focused mainly the caches needing maintenance I could work myself up into a lather over irresponsible owners.
Gratitude (remembering that cache placements are a gift) versus entitlement (belief that what's important is others meeting your standards). can make a huge difference. I try (albeit imperfectly) to practice being grateful for what I am given, and I am still enjoying geocaching after 16+ years.
My opinion is that if you are unable to let go of an obsessive need to root out "bad caches" and you cannot or will not stop moralizing about cache maintenance, then this sport/activity/whatever is not good for you, and you would maybe be happier doing something else.
I completely agree with this - thanks for posting it.
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I thought I’d reply to this since I’ve been caching for a while (since 11-2004) but haven’t found massive amounts of caches and don’t tend to do a lot of caches in one day. However, I did a Heritage Trail series a few years back with a couple of friends – here’s one of the caches. There was an event where the cache coordinates were handed out and then we all set out to find the 30 caches in the series. My friends and I completed the challenge that day and got our coins – the caches were great, btw – you could tell a lot of thought and effort had gone into making and placing them. It was a lot of fun although I did start to get just a little cranky by the end of the day. I’ve never found 30 caches in one day before or since but was glad I did it.
I think you’ll have fun. Just take your time and don’t take it too seriously.
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At one point I kept up a bookmark list of Haunted Caches. Unfortunately, I let it lapse so a lot of those caches have been archived. However, there are still a few that are active and if you look those up you might find other bookmarks that are more up to date.
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This is too funny - love it (both The Jester's and Keystone's posts)!
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I think, rather, that your insistence on coming up with more and more hoops for cache owners to jump through to ensure that they guarantee you that the cache will be exactly as you want it is both ungrateful and unhelpful.
Remember: these people placed these caches at no cost to you. You are not paying them anything, yet you feel entitled to demand that they visit their caches on your schedule to maintain them according to your standards. I find that unacceptable.
In another topic I wrote about how seekers are acting more and more entitled, as if they are the "customers" and the cache owners are vendors of some kind. Your proposal nicely epitomizes what I was talking about.
I have some bad news for you: cache owners do not owe you a great debt just because you exist. On the contrary; you owe them a debt, one that you seem unwilling to acknowledge.
I find your accusation of my perceived entitlement unacceptable. It's nothing more than a manifestation of your sour view on caching today.
And your wrong. Cache owners do have a debt. A debt that was born the second they chose to hit that submit button.
I've repaid my debt by placing caches of my own and maintaining them.
First, I do not have a "sour view" of geocaching. I enjoy caching a great deal; I have steadily cached for a long time now and I have no idea where people get the idea that I don't like what it has become or that I am resistant to change.
My problem is not with caching; rather it is with whiners in the forums proposing new rules to make cache ownership more onerous in an ineffective attempt to solve minimally-important problems.
I've been in these forums for about 15 years now. The one constant is that there is always a group of people here proposing new rules in order to force everybody else to cache in the way they want. We've had people against power trails, people against cut-and-paste logs, people against challenge caches, people trying to get placement guidelines turned into hard-and-fast rules, etc. etc. etc. The latest iteration seems to be people who are so outraged at a cache that is not in perfect condition that they demand new rules for cache owners to guarantee them a perfect, pristine cache container.
My opinion is not that caching is going downhill, but rather that you are whining about a problem that is not very important. Your complete lack of gratitude for those who have placed caches for you to find is irritating, but hardly unprecedented; your willingness to punish those to who you should be grateful, however, is something I will do my best to resist. It's not acceptable for HQ to think that the majority of cachers out there are whiny, entitled little dictators who want new rules placed on cache hiders; thus, there is a need to speak out against the noisy few in the forums.
Well said. And, thank you.
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Um, I'm not really sure which is the "post like this" you're referring to - mine or cezanne's. Personally, I don't see any need for more regulation on the adoption process. I was simply pointing out a technical error in thebruce0's post.
Certainly not your post. I'm just perplexed by the whole exercise of trying to govern the maintenance of caches, with or without computer guided missives and regulation, through the forum.
Totally understand your point then and agree.
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Just a point of clarification - I don't believe a reviewer is currently involved in the adoption process. It is strictly between cachers.
Indeed and that's the key issue. What Team Microdot has in mind would involve that the system automatically blocks cachers from being allowed to adopt caches (including all cache owners who do not yet own a cache).
I would not want to have such a system not even if there existed a way to appeal against such bans where someone human would have a look at the situation and unblock the user in certain cases.
As soon as I saw this subject I knew I'd find posts like this. This really is a slippery slope to go down, beginning with the classic line:
There oughta be a law!
When you create a law, rule, statute, condition, etc. there must be a processes, so this becomes:
There oughta be a law and more work for people to do to enforce it and handle appeals.
Meanwhile, back at the kindhearted and most revered volunteer reviewer's desk there's this thought rattling around:
Oh, geez.
And up at the lily pad a committee fails to coalesce, largely because they are thinking the same thought. They'd rather be having fun and promoting fun.
And out in the field, where the great masses of geocachers roam from dawn to dusk (and beyond) they are mostly of a single mind on the whole topic:
Nope.
At least, that's the way I see the whole ball of ambergris.
Um, I'm not really sure which is the "post like this" you're referring to - mine or cezanne's. Personally, I don't see any need for more regulation on the adoption process. I was simply pointing out a technical error in thebruce0's post.
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The Health Score mechanism is known to flag COs as maintenance shirkers on the basis of just a few DNFs that in all likelihood had nothing to do with cache maintenance. I think it's a poor judge of character.
Uhh... to the best of my knowledge (from dicussions here) cache owners are not flagged as maintenance shirkers. Geocaches are flagged (do we even know this?) and their owners are emailed. That's a point to clarify because the system does not suddenly label a person as a potentially negligent owner. A reviewer may (incorrectly) interpret the communication with the owner as evidence that they are a 'shirker', but no the Health Score mechanism does not set this flag.
And on that note, I think the HS system ca be used to provide an advisory about a cache owner for the reviewer to take into consideration when an adoption is requested, but the reviewer - as usual - has to make the final call. IF there's some stat with a CO about 'flagged' caches, or how many communications are made, then it could be informative, but not definitive. A reviewer may be able to see some type of average cache health score across their owned caches, but again, I would be against any sort of absolute minimum to qualify a person for adoption. It's faaar too subjective with unknown factors.
Just a point of clarification - I don't believe a reviewer is currently involved in the adoption process. It is strictly between cachers.
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For the record, this event is Saturday February 18th 2017, at Notre Centre Grande Digue, New Brunswick, Canada.
Sorry. I thought it was clear. I simply wanted to give cachers a view of a different kind of event. The event page has interesting logs and photos of the activities in the snow on the islands during last saturday's event
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Not to worry - I thought it was clear, too. I live in the southeast US and we don't get weather that cold. I loved looking at the pictures - I particularly liked the heron nests! A friend of mine and I have been talking about going somewhere cold enough to try snow shoeing - maybe one day!
Thanks for sharing!
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Any reviewers willing to clarify the D/T change with regard to reviewer approval? MUST we now run it past the reviewer for our area or are we still OK to change/modify it a bit (I'm talking .5 either way because I think anything over +/- 1 warrants a new cache listing, IMO) due to unperceived difficulty or ease or a change in terrain due to construction or vegetative growth in the area?
Geocaching HQ is in the middle of a comprehensive update to the Help Center, to make it more... well... helpful. It's a great project! Obviously this article was updated. Sometimes wording changes produce unintended results.
Several Reviewers, myself included, read this forum thread today and dashed off to ask HQ if we'd missed a Memo. That's why no Reviewer has posted to the thread until now, as we were equally surprised. After discussions with HQ today, I am pleased to confirm that no policy change was intended by this update. Reviewers and Lackeys are now working on a revised version of the article, which will be posted to the Help Center within a week or so.
Most of the Help Center updates are being made with direct reviewer input on the proposed text. Somehow, this advice about major changes to a cache listing slipped into the Help Center. Sorry for the confusion!
Finally, I'd like to thank barefootjeff for starting this thread. Your question will lead to clearer guidance in the near future.
I was hoping a reviewer would stop by and clarify. Thanks, Keystone!
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I cast my vote to keep it at Groundspeak HQ as a relic and to leave it archived. I think it's great that the original container was recovered but I suspect if restored to the original location it will simply be targeted for muggling again and the next time we might not get so lucky as to find it.
This is lame because I suspect those that already have the icon are voting for the museum and those that don't have the icon are voting for reactivation.
I have the icon and I voted to have it unarchived.
And I don't have the icon and I voted to keep it at Groundspeak HQ and leave it archived.
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Just a note - you actually logged a find on this on 7/27/2014.
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I have a few that I have adopted and they show as found. Not a problem. And if you think about it the most likely person to adopt a cache is one who as already found it.
Agreed. I can't imagine adopting a cache if I had not previously found it. If I haven't found the cache myself how would I know if it's a cache worth adopting.
Well, I've actually done that - adopt a cache I hadn't previously found. It was one of two that I adopted in an area I'd already placed a cache. One I'd found, the other I'd DNFed. So after I adopted it I went back out to search. I figured if I couldn't find it, I'd put another cache out in the area I thought it should be. Well, I hunted and hunted and couldn't find it so I started looking for a good spot to hide one near the coordinates. Found a great spot - and the cache! I updated the coordinates slightly and left the cache as it was. I never did log that one as found, though.
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Has Anyone Considered Disabling Caches Until the Virus Threat is Past
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Good list. Personally, I'd put #4 as #1, but that's just my opinion.