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Especially those of us outside of CA hope they secede. LOL. From a geocaching perspective, I will be at two out of three new CA states.

It seems like only in America that the population demands a zero-risk life. It's actually kind of embarrassing.

I am going to hide my next cache in the local crying room. Perhaps the crayons and pillows will aide in the use of the Dangerous Area icon.

If you've ever cheated, even once, your streak is already over.

I would consider you a busy body cache cop... but then I am only stating my opinion because you asked. Do what you think is right but make sure you're doing if for the right reasons. You have no idea about any of the conversations that may or may not have happened back in the day.

As a cartridge builder myself I would love to answer Groundspeak's questions about Wherigo ;-)

See if your email account provider allows you to create aliases. If they do, create an alias that points to both email accounts. I use that method for many different things. Though, it helps that I own the email server ;-)

Nearly impossible? I believe I acquired over 1200 points without even breaking a sweat.

Yep, this. Anything less is cheating the system.

A glass pipe? Good grief, if you're triggered then just throw it away and don't bother the cops. What do you think they're going to do? Finger print it?

I use Earwigo so don't know how your tool implements it. But my functions are located in the Author Script block. Once it's there.. - I have a boolean variable named var_codeValid - I have an expression named codeValid - In the GetInput event, first step is to do a Lua statement: ValidateCode(var_answer) - followed by If/Then, checking the expression. You should get the gist of it?? This was my first attempt at this in a builder tool so I would definitely do it differently if I wrote it today. But it works.

You can do it a couple of different ways. Here's a way I've used.. in LUA. function ValidateCode(code) if not IsNumeric(code) then var_codeValid = false return end function IsNumeric(var) local num = tonumber(var) if num == nil then return false else return true end end

Thank you. It sounds like I was headed in the right, in the only, direction to get close to what I'd like to do.

Going to start off first by stating the obvious.. I know this won't work on Garmin devices. But if on the smartphone platform, if I want continuous background music playing, what's the best way to proceed? I have not tried it, but the idea of a timer came to my mind, configured to coincide with the length of my sound byte. Anyone have any better ideas? Or is there an easier method I may be overlooking?

Another aspect to the game, some of us go WAY out of our way to score caches like this.. to look for DNF'ed caches that no one else can find or lonely caches. I am one of those. Many times I fail but MANY times I am successful. I think everyone else set you on track with not worrying about it since there's nothing you can do about it. My goal was just to point out that there are some of us that cache on a regular basis in what you found "concerning". I am thinking you might need to harden up. And error on NOT "reporting" unless it is absolutely something that violates the guidelines or physically harms someone or something.

I love the semantics.. First, I don't care what others do. But I believe the locals that I saw dropping and picking bugs dozens of times did constitute some level of cheating (the system). It's all about integrity.

Jeez, are we still talking about the reward algorithm? I challenge some of you to take my advice.. I am top 1% hider in Minnesota, (at the time) ranked in top 5 favorite point recipient in Minnesota.. regularly maintain ALL of my caches, about 300 or so active. I was not chosen. Was I disappointed? Yes, for about two minutes. Am I angry? Nope. I MOVED ON WITH MY LIFE. That's my advice, MOVE ON.

For the record, last time I was out I found 10 caches in under 50 minutes in an urban area that is filled with snow. So find count is not something you can judge. Though, I usually write coherent logs ;-)

Yep. I know someone who allegedly got a lifetime ban from the forums and was awarded one.

The burden of proof is on the cache owner anyway.. I mean, if the log is deleted.

I seriously do not mean any offense by asking you this.. you've been caching for 9 years, you're only discovering this now? Or were you being facetious?

THIS, a 1000 times over. Don't listen to the fizzy stat whiners.

Might be easier to use either the Reverse Wherigo or my Wonder Wherigo. http://www.Wherigo.com/cartridge/details.aspx?CGUID=97d49e68-9b47-436c-9ead-8d1041ef54dd

The only ALR's that can be enforced are EC's, virtuals and webcams. While this cache might still exist, the ALR part of it would NOT have been grandfathered.

That's a matter of opinion.