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Have you seen that tampon commerical where they use a tampon to fix a hole in a leaky boat? Maybe it is for that.

Do cache owners have the right to delete log posts on the geocaching website just because they don’t like the person who visited their cache? Here’s a very brief description of what happened. A friend of mine noticed that a cacher he met awhile ago was monitoring his geocaching activities. A couple of times my friend logged a few travel bugs and shortly afterwards this guy would email him to see if he could get it or how he got the number to log it. A few days ago we were looking for virtual geocoins to log. I found a Maryland geocoin that mentioned nothing in the title about being a virtual but on the description page it said she would send the tracking number if you emailed her. I put the coin on my watchlist and emailed the owner. She emailed me back a bunch of tracking numbers for some coins she owned, which I thought was very nice. I logged the coins & instantly put them back in the cache they came out of. Two days later I get notified through the watchlist that this guy had logged the Maryland coin. The only way he could have ever know about the coin is if he was monitoring our activity. I was a bit annoyed and creeped out that someone was watching us so closely. I’ve never met the guy or spoke with him whatsoever and I found it disturbing that he was watching us so closely. A few more things have happened since, I won’t bore you with the details, which prompted my friend to email the guy and ask him to quit monitoring our activity among other things. Of course he denied he was watching us, used a few swear words to describe us, told us that he was one of the reasons geocaching was even around, and since we were relatively new to the sport we were basically nothing. He then went and looked at all the caches we had ever done and any that were his, or ones he’d adopted from other members, and deleted the log posts. So now it shows we’ve never even done these caches. We did these caches before even knowing of the guy. One of them was even done before it was adopted by him. Since any cache he adopts he turns into a premium membership and my friend does not have a premium membership we know it was beforehand. So does he have the right to do this? I know physically he is capable of it, but is it right ethically. Does geocaching.com feel that this behavior is ok? Is there anything that can be done? This guy has found over 1000 travel bugs, that’s his claim to fame, I don’t think he would like it if owners deleted his posts and made his travel bug numbers go down. Any advise is greatly welcome, and if you’d like to know the full story let me know.