If the "Other people" didn't hide the caches, you would not be having the fun of finding them. So, in effect, other people are responsible for you having fun.
John
No. I have made a personal choice to participate in caching. I acknowledge that my participation relies on the contribution of cache owners, and certainly I appreciate that contribution. However, nobody "owes" me anything as a result of MY decision to participate. If all of the cache owners out there decided tomorrow to remove their caches, that would be unfortunate. But I can't control what anyone else does. I can only control my own choices. So in that instance, I would simply find something else fun to do with my time.
When a CO makes a personal choice to place a cache, and then has an expectation that in return for finding said cache each finder will then "owe" him a response, he places his happiness at the mercy of others, who may or may not respond in the way he prefers. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, but if that CO then finds that he is not getting the responses he'd hoped for, and therefore is not enjoying the activity, why *wouldn't* he then archive his caches and move onto something else?
Not everyone hides caches for the same reasons. While it's clear that many COs expect and enjoy long and varied descriptions of the finders' experiences, I suspect to many others it is less important, or even totally unimportant. Perhaps those who do wish to have interesting logs should say so in their cache descriptions. Something along the lines of "Hey, I really love hearing about your experience, so please take the time to provide some details in your log!" might help. Or even "Please don't look for this cache unless you intend to leave a detailed log". Even then you might get blank logs, because again, you can't control what other people do. But at least then the expectation is clear BEFORE the finder chooses to pursue that particular cache.
