WeeLurk

I'm sorry that this is happening to you guys. Sounds like it is one of the situations that could happen to any of us since we all have guard rail hides. I hope that it just blows over and you can continue to enjoy geocaching. I feel like I will be a little more cautious about hides in the future because of this.

Me and my husband (before he was my husband) were wandering around a cemetery, he picked a big old tree to get on his knee and ask me to marry him. We were in the process of discussing the age of the tree and all the things in life that the tree had seen (including this awkward moment) when he noticed the little box sitting next to a stone. He had been geocaching before and knew exactly what it was. I had never geocached before and watched while he opened the box to find a beautiful Rosarie. We are both Catholic and this meant a lot to both of us at such a great moment. That was the beginning of or team Weelurk and our caching as a couple.

I tried, had a bad experience at an event. I came back after a cache was placed very close to my house and I wanted to find it. Now I am back for real after meeting some great cachers who I call "friends" and seeing that there can be great events.

So "Throwdown" = "Angel Cache", I guess that is the seekers way of making it sound more friendly. Ok, so a throwdown is a bad thing making an angel cache a bad thing too. I feel like a lot of the caches that I have seen that this has happened to will not ever be seen by the actual CO cause the CO is MIA. What to do about this problem?

We have started to cache again after a few months break and have discovered a few people have been placing "Angel Caches". I am guessing that an "Angel cache" is one that is placed by a seeker when the seeker cannot find the original. The caches that I have seen these "Angel Caches" at are caches that have not been maintained in years and have a long list of DNF. The person placing the "Angel cache" has been logging it as a "Found" even though they are not done with the permission of the original cache owner. I'm curious what everyone's oppinion of this is and if they count as a find. Thanks

That sounds like a good plan Nittany Dave.

Well, I have definately learned a lot from this experience. I learned a lot about myself and my interactions with other people. This entire thing has made me feel sad and I wish I could go back and make it all go away. I love geocaching and it is hard to have the faces behind the logs think bad things about me. I think I met NCbiscuit at the event, I recognize her picture. I think she did a wonderful job arranging this event and the more I learn, the more I know that it was exactly what everyone wanted in an event. There have been several other people that have been so kind to us about this and I wish I could go back and talk more with these people and really get to know NCGO. I'm not sure if I will ever be a geocacher again. It hurts me to think that I have made people angry and I don't want to be the bad geocacher. Thank you all for posting comments on this forum. I do take all of the advice offered and I did understand what everyone was saying. I guess I will just have to see what happens in the future.

(male-half) Wow...this thread has seriously opened up a can of worms and I appreciate everybody's input. This weekend seemed to have hurt a lot of feelings, both in and out of this house and we need to put it behind us. I would like to apologize to anyone who has ever hosted an event and had to have an attendee state publicly that they did not enjoy themselves as much as they thought they would. We never meant any disrespect to anybody involved with the event or the many hours of work that they had put into it. In hind-sight, stating it on the log may not have been the wisest case for us. We should have sat on it for a day and emailed the Event owner privately then post a simple "yes, we were there and we liked it" for attendance. I have since been contacted by one of the coordinators and we are discussing things that I felt needed to be addressed. Our post was edited for the realization that the majority of people do not care to read an opinionated log. We had very big hopes for the NCGO event. We have been caching for about 8 months together and had never run across others who shared our favorite hobby. I still very much plan to be a part of NCGO and volunteering for future events. That may suprise some of you, but at the end of the day, geocaching is still our favorite hobby and we still want to make friends to share it with and even as bad some people sound online I'm sure they are very nice in person. We may just put geocaching on the back burner for a little while in order to let things simmer down. Again, we never meant to hurt or upset people with our post. We gave our honest opinion about things in order to try to improve them for the future, nothing more. We still do firmly believe if first time event goers aren't enjoying themselves at an event, maybe there are improvements that can be made. After all, the lifecycle of any organization depends on new membership. Any further comments that are unconstructive and mean will likely be ignored and disregarded because frankly, I don't really care and I refuse to let the female-half get upset over nonsense. I'm also more than willing to share a beer with anyone who wants a decent discussion.

Trash an event? My one comment about the event "Trashed" the event? No I do not want hand holding nor did I expect hand holding. I will not be attending any more events though. I talked to people and no where did I say anything about not talking to people. I stated that there was a lot of time during the event where nothing was happening. I guess that happens at every event and now I know. I bought the entire package and spent money on raffle tickets and 50/50 so NCGO got my donation and yes that does count for spending money on an event. My topic on here was about negative comments about a log that a person posted, not about how I could have done better for myself at this event. I really wish that I had never decided to attend an event, I really love geocaching but I really do not love how negative people get. My log was changed because I got tired of people making a point to call out my log and bash it. That is not being respectful of someone else's opinion. I did meet some great people at the event and I hope this in no way makes those people feel as though I do not value the meetings. I do think that a lot of people put a lot of effort into this event but it was just not what I had expected from a large event organized by an official group. That is why I said that I was disappointed. My being disappointed is my opinion. In the future I will keep my opinions to myself because obviously people are only looking for negative things to focus on.

I agree and disagree with all of these posts. I understand that people would take offense to someone saying an event wasn't great when they put time and effort into making the event happen. I didn't reply to anyone else's logs though and I believe that my little log would not have been a big deal if other people did not make it a big deal. It feels like everyone else is allowed to say good comments but honest comments are not allowed.

I don't think it is resonable to reply to other people's logs. I think that they can have their own opinion too, just leave my post out of your post. It is not a forum it is a log on a cache.

I agree with everything you are saying...however my question was about the comment and not really the event. I realize that there are things that each individual can do to make their time better. I just feel like it is not right to bad mouth people for having their own opinion. I did not ask for someone to comment back to me and I also didn't expect to read posts that were responding to what I said. My geo partner and I have already sent an email to someone else involved with NCGO explaining what we were talking about in the post. This event wasn't "Free", we paid money to go and I feel like it could have been done better. If I attended a free event and decided to complain....then it would be different.

My post that I deleted said that I had expected more events at the event, that there was a lot of people yelling when we first got there and we could not figure out what was going on. I said that we almost left right then but we stayed. I said diner was not until late and there wasn't anything going on for several hours so we opted to leave. I also said that I met some really nice people but I was disappointed in my first event. Care to share what the FB post was?

The poker run was done as a virtual cache type thing because it would have cost $25 per cache to place them in the park. I can understand that but we couldn't even do the poker run because some of the virtual poker run caches were far away and there was only 2 hours to do the event. We went and got a map and by the time we did all of that we had 5 minutes to look for the virtual caches. I did delete my post and make it a happy face because I didn't want any more people to respond. It is too much of a one sided conversation on there and it was making me feel bad that my oppinion could not be heard. Thanks for your reply.

This is the first time I have ever done this forum but I have something on my mind and I want to know what other cachers think. I recently attended an event(the first time I have attended an event) and I was a little disappointed with it. I did have a good time meeting some people and had a few laughs with my geo partner, but I really didn't feel like the event was that good. I do think that people put hard work into making it all happen and I commend them for it though. When I logged my attendance for the event I stated what I did not like about it. After that post several people began bashing my log. I felt as though I wasn't allowed to have and oppinion unless it was the correct oppinion. This made me feel very bad about geocaching and wanting to be part of a group of cachers. Does this happen a lot? I would love to know what everyone thinks about bad mouthing other people's logs because my feeling is that you should write your own log and not worry about what other people are saying. Thanks for listening.