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I was thinking about this... and if I was the CO of such a multi, and someone found it without finding the stages, I probly wouldn't delete their log, but I might ask them to remove anything in their log that would suggest they have skipped stages, because I wouldnt want every subsequent cacher to do that, the stages are meant to be found to.

yes i would do the whole thing. I once stumbled on to the final for a puzzle cache. I haven't loged it yet because I haven't solved the puzzle.

as soon as I saw the pics I got on google and found that q and a page, and I really don't think i will belive it untill I see it. I so want it to be a real place, but my mind still has doubts. The pictures don't look "right" to me, but I can't be more specific than that because I don't know what I'm talking about.

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One should allow a week or so, to permit the cacher who dropped the TB to drop it properly. This is common courtesy. Yes. I've had a few run ins. Example: I picked up a TB in New York that wanted to visit all 50 states. The next week, I dropped it in a cache in New Jersey. About a forty-five minute drive home, I went to log it, and find that it had already been grabbed from me by a cacher from New York. He couldn't even wait an hour! A little courtesy and a little patience goes a long way. thats not what I meant at all! what I meant was that I understood that the reason for waiting, and the reason for people taking a while to log was that they were busy or possibly away on vacation. However, if this is the case, this guy obviously has internet access, and time on his hands, because he shot off a nasty email right away... so wtf mate?

hello pot, this is the kettle calling... but isn't discussing the ontopicness of this thread, in itself off topic?

Well, of course I get that. Playground hides and cemetery hides. That's pretty obvious. I'm asking what is the story? Are those photoshopped? Are they real? If real, is there really a cache there? If so, what is the cache? If not, what is the point? my above quoted post was refering to the post about this being completley off topic. and i do belive it's a photoshop, but it would be super cool if there was more to it than that.

I actually do think this is geocaching related, and not off topic. it is pointing out two of the most complained about hides in one picture. I think of it as cache satire.

ummm, kay guys.... I'm missing something here.... it's my simple (very simple) understanding that the main reason why one would wait for someone to log the tb in to a cache is that they are on vaccation, or are too busy for whatever reason at that moment to do it, and when they have time, they will go ahead and catch up. so let me get this straight.... this person has no time to log his tb, but has time to send you rude email about it?

OK, being the nosey parker that I am, I want to know what you gang think someones motivation or reasoning for not logging a tb and dropping it somewhere else, or just plain keeping a tb are. I can think of a couple quick reasons off the top of my head, but I'm wondering what the number one answer would be.

bahaha! love it.

If it were my cahce... I might send them an email to ask why they didn't sign the log, depending on how much free time I had. I might in this email ask them to please sign the logs of my caches that they find in the future. I would have to be in a bad mood about not having anything else to do tho... To me, it sounds like they went out caching and forgot their pen.

just an alternate suggestion... if you want to place a bunch of caches, and are worried your own caches may be too close together, you could consider making it a multi. The stages of a multi do not need to be .1 mile apart, but they do need to be .1 mile apart form seperate caches. There is no rule for the distance between multi stages.

when I started, i thought it was against the guidlines to leave business cards i will admit that the first cache I found stuffed full of them, i got a little upset, and re-read the guidlines when I got home, and it's not as clear cut as I thought the first time I read them. I still don't like it, but my little protest is simply not participating in the practice. I also figure that people who do this for the most part aren't thinking about advertising, but more as a kind of signature item "i was here" type thing.

I don't leave my business card in caches because I would consider that to be advertising for my business. But that's me. I simply ignore cards left by others, I don't CITO them. Also, being in front of a store doesn't bother me. There are lots of P&Gs in wally world lots, but it has never crossed my mind that it's a conspiracy by said chain to bring people there. ETA I'm not offended by anything the op has posted. sometimes annoyed, I'll admit, but that's my problem.

mine is .3 miles away, it's a micro, and it's up a steep hill along a highway. I will get it one day, but I have not been despirate enough to walk that route just yet.

same here, two challanges that I'm working on are to find at least one cache in all of the electoral distrects in the area, and one where you must find a cache begining with each letter of the alphabet (I'm stuck on v of all letters)

my beef with ziplocks, and other cheaper versions of ziplocks is that it can be hard to tell if they are closed, and if a cacher thinks they have closed it, but left a bit open by mistake, there might as well be no bag at all. I favor the ones with the tow coloured zipper that turns green when it closes, or even better, ones that have a "zipper pull" type closure

I think the first two or three of these types of caches were kind of cute, but somewhere around a dozen or so, it got kind of annoying. Then you get into that whole, "...I'll Delete your Find if you don't" thing, and then it really starts to suck the fun out of my day. There's my 0.02 of friendly discussion I get that. That's why they are banned. If someone was going to delete my find if they didn't like my log, that would put me off too, but now that they aren't allowed to, and it's all in fun I think it really changes the dynamic.

to straight up answer your question.. No, I don't mind newbie cachers contributing to the community in ways we have not seen before I DO HATE people who expect the rest of the world to be held responsible for their actions.

There are a few caches arround here that "suggest" you do something additional. This is never anything big, it's something like share a wedding related story, or write your log in alliteration, or one that I'm ginning for, where every cacher is an FTF (like FTF while wearing a purple shirt, or FTF while walking 3 dogs in one hand...) or my personal fav "make a royal phoon of yourself" GC1N89W... anyway... I have noticed on a few of these that quite a few people don't bother to contribute, I know that they aren't required to, but I am interested in a freindly discussion about why, or why not. Do you guys like these types of caches?

Because they think you might have been stealthy? If there are sensitive areas right by GZ that you want cachers to specifically avoid, you should really mention that in the description of the cache. I did. but I guess in the FTF race nobody really cared.

I'm about to blatently hijack this thread... I make no appologies... I have a cache placed in a park with lots of native plants and wildflowers The cach is simply sitting on the ground, not covered by anything (it's camoed well) and can be reached without stepping off the trail. In an ftf race, a whole lot of vegitation was destroyed in searching for the cache, and I'm now watching it like a hawk, and if things don't improve I will pull the cache. My beef is that if I had placed it in a wildflower bed, there would have been no way I would have been able to do it without leaving a trail of flat flowers behind me, therefore one can assume that apon arrival at GZ, since nothing is disturbed, I wasn't there, and if I wasn't there, neither is my cache. I don't see why people can't figure that out.

this has been bugging me too. it strikes me as a lack of common sense. example, a cache has been recently published. The cache is not in plain sight. The cachers take to wandering over a flower bed to find it. Now, if going thru the flower bed was required to find the cache, would one not expect the CO to have left a trail when they placed said cache, in the act of hiding it?

only i rename the way point from 002, or whatever it is set to, to something that refects the cache (usually the gc number) because I don't always find the caches as soon as I'm finsished the puzzle, and I have been knowen to carry arround a few puzzle solutions in my gps at a time