bflentje

Your passive aggressive reply suggests you think you got a one-up, but it's not true. LOL.

Read through it several times and you still don't get my point? Jeez, perhaps you need to drop out of the forums for a while to get some fresh air while finding a cache.

False premise. Anyone that claims that the power trail mentality hasn't had an large impact on the way the game is played today is fooling themselves. With the monkey-see/monkey do impact the power trail mentality just grows in an area which has an impact on the types of caches available to find, blocks large swaths of real estate for any other type of cache to be placed and leads to a focus on quantity rather than quality. How does that not impact the game? If a trail is saturated with 300 cut-n-paste cache with no room for any others the geocacher that prefers to find caches which demonstrate a smidgen of creativity can't enjoy geocaching on that trail unless they hold their nose and find the PT caches. How is that not affecting them? When a PT is published and 300 notifications messages sent out, because there isn't a PT attribute nor the ability to exclude notifications based on a co name or attribute isn't available the only way to stop those messages is to create a filter *after* the messages start getting sent. If all 300 are published on the same day there would be no point in creating the filter because the messages are already in ones in box. For someone that wants to do those PTs there isn't a negative impact. For someone that doesn't they have to jump through hoops to avoid them. I qualified my statement,,

As noble as I believe your idea was, you still should have known how controversial your subject matter would be in some warped sectors of humanity. Self inflicted headaches?

I once wrote an entire Windows application to do the same thing, to capture webcam pictures. I wrote it for a certain webcam atop Mount Washington knowing in 2009 that there was no cell service. I left my software running back at the hotel. Knowing the alleged refresh rate of the camera I knew how long I should have hung out in front of the camera. Research paid off. I still use the software today in certain situations.

If EC, virtual and webcam owners must be relatively reasonable in allowing finders to post requirements, perhaps the same reasonable factor, whatever that is, should be applied to the enforcement of the requirement.. just a lame idea from an experienced cache finder and owner.

This has to be a joke. NO ONE could be that triggered to leave the game for something that doesn't need to affect them.

Yeah, I guess my "banning across the board" should be limited to webcams. Virtual and EC ALR's don't really bother me. Webcams are hard enough to come by nowadays so adding a bunch of posing requirements rubbed me the wrong way.

And I appreciate that you accepted my flashlight in the fog picture all those years back. ;-) I visited last summer again and posted a fog-free picture.

That's fine. But your opinion does not invalidate my opinion. I think all ALR's, outside of the obvious, should be banned across the board.

You have to love over zealous and power struggling webcam cache owners.. the only ALR for a webcam should be a viewable picture from the webcam. These lame posing requirements should be grounds for immediate archival, in my useless opinion. And I love webcams (sitting at about 125-something webcam finds).

Perhaps. But you know what my point was and debate isn't necessary.

Except just about every inch of California is accessible. And half of Ontario is wilderness and not accessible without very special methods. ;-)

I love geoaching and I love running and building Wherigos. But I openly admit, I am not likely to run a cartridge without the reward of a smiley. It's MY PHILOSOPHY.. so no one is obligated to like my useless opinion.

There are options.. open source cartridges, the Waldmeister Reverse Wherigo cartridge, and now the Wonder Wherigo cartridge. Give it a try. Just let me know if you decide to publish an actual cache. http://geocaching.flentje.com/Wherigo/WonderWherigo

Good grief.

Here's one I recently found by accident.. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2TBT0_star-trek?guid=a6a4c392-e2ec-4f21-9228-69e01018b4ee

In this case, yes, since it was my trackable. ;-)

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9F88_past-life?guid=664ed7ca-aa1b-4519-87b5-0d346ac89c72

This. Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world.

That's why they're called challenges.

When abroad I will log in my native English. Not because I want to offend anyone. But because I am incompetent with language. After learning how foolish I looked trying to use Google Translate, I just stopped using it (to log).