Gloom

Early next week I will be heading up to Portland and then on to Yakima later in the week. If anyone has or knows of any TBs that want to go that way (or the reverse), let me know and I'll do my best to keep em moving. Gloom

An Oregon (not oregone ) listserv would be great! regarding CM's I got my notification within minutes of signing up on paypal, then went to geocaching.com and activated it. whole thing took about 10 minutes. Actually now that I think about it, a listserv devoted to oregone's antics wouldn't be too bad!

An Oregon (not oregone ) listserv would be great! regarding CM's I got my notification within minutes of signing up on paypal, then went to geocaching.com and activated it. whole thing took about 10 minutes. Actually now that I think about it, a listserv devoted to oregone's antics wouldn't be too bad!

quote:Originally posted by Team CacheCows of Wisconsin: Jeremy and geocaching.com are not GEOCACHING. If you don't like the policies and practices of this site, then by all means _LEAVE, PLEASE!_ Here here.

Especially for cachers like Quad (and hopefully me soon) who have hit the closest 50 or so caches. When you go to the search page, the first couple of pages are filled up with caches that you've already hit, so you have to scroll to the 5th (for example) page just to find one that you haven't been to. Great idea Quad!

Especially for cachers like Quad (and hopefully me soon) who have hit the closest 50 or so caches. When you go to the search page, the first couple of pages are filled up with caches that you've already hit, so you have to scroll to the 5th (for example) page just to find one that you haven't been to. Great idea Quad!

quote:Originally posted by Scott Thomason (Brokenwing):If there are no consequences for failure, maybe one should not bother to ask “verification” questions at all.

quote:Originally posted by Scott Thomason (Brokenwing):If there are no consequences for failure, maybe one should not bother to ask “verification” questions at all.

....from what you guys are saying you don't really care if someone goes to the actual (virtual)cache location and gets the answer or not? What good is having the cache then? Just so people can add another log to their stats? If that's what you're saying then why not just place a bunch of vituals at random locations (sort of like geodashing) and let people log them without going? Makes no sense to me. If I place a cache, I usually have a purpose and want people to see something that's there. If they're not going, then why do it? I realize that you can't verify that people are actually going to traditional style caches, but the whole point of asking a certain question IS to verify that people went there. If you're not even checking the question why do you have it? I'm not trying to be an a$$ here, but maybe I just don't understand the logic. Around here there are two types of virtuals, ones that ask a specific question about the place, and ones that don't. For the ones that don't I can see your point, there's no real way to check on who went and who didn't. But on caches that DO ask a question I think that you should be required to answer that question. It just seems contrary to the point of the cache to allow people to log it without answering the question. Makes no sense to me! Sorry for the ranting, just venting some non-related frustration.

....from what you guys are saying you don't really care if someone goes to the actual (virtual)cache location and gets the answer or not? What good is having the cache then? Just so people can add another log to their stats? If that's what you're saying then why not just place a bunch of vituals at random locations (sort of like geodashing) and let people log them without going? Makes no sense to me. If I place a cache, I usually have a purpose and want people to see something that's there. If they're not going, then why do it? I realize that you can't verify that people are actually going to traditional style caches, but the whole point of asking a certain question IS to verify that people went there. If you're not even checking the question why do you have it? I'm not trying to be an a$$ here, but maybe I just don't understand the logic. Around here there are two types of virtuals, ones that ask a specific question about the place, and ones that don't. For the ones that don't I can see your point, there's no real way to check on who went and who didn't. But on caches that DO ask a question I think that you should be required to answer that question. It just seems contrary to the point of the cache to allow people to log it without answering the question. Makes no sense to me! Sorry for the ranting, just venting some non-related frustration.

quote:Originally posted by Pote: In my own instance, I put questions on my v-cache to enhance the experience of the visit to the site. If a person doesn't want to take the steps to 'do it right', it's their loss. I don't get or lose points from their visit and I'm not competing with them to collect smilies. So I voted to 'let it go...' Life has a few more important things to lose sleep over than somebody sucessfully completing a virtual cache. just because it's a virtual cache doesn't mean they should be able to log it if they didn't do what the cache requires. If the cache placer wants the cacher to do something, then it should be done to be able to log the cache. Otherwise, why not just log all the caches on the website? I have a fairly hard vitual cache (GC38B1) that requires a little bit of work to finish. While I've let some people slide with the wrong answers (they did do all the stages and at least got to the right location), I would be bummed if someone decided to log it without actually going out and doing it. The only way I can assure that is if they send me the answer to the question. Just my $0.02 Gloom

quote:Originally posted by Pote: In my own instance, I put questions on my v-cache to enhance the experience of the visit to the site. If a person doesn't want to take the steps to 'do it right', it's their loss. I don't get or lose points from their visit and I'm not competing with them to collect smilies. So I voted to 'let it go...' Life has a few more important things to lose sleep over than somebody sucessfully completing a virtual cache. just because it's a virtual cache doesn't mean they should be able to log it if they didn't do what the cache requires. If the cache placer wants the cacher to do something, then it should be done to be able to log the cache. Otherwise, why not just log all the caches on the website? I have a fairly hard vitual cache (GC38B1) that requires a little bit of work to finish. While I've let some people slide with the wrong answers (they did do all the stages and at least got to the right location), I would be bummed if someone decided to log it without actually going out and doing it. The only way I can assure that is if they send me the answer to the question. Just my $0.02 Gloom

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