genese09

I agree with you. If you are just sitting home and watching, when you CAN attend, then you have no business logging the event. The DGS originates from an area that is, for the most part, a military community. A good portion of the DGS are military, have been military, or are in some way associated with the military. I will not give names or point out which individuals these are, that is our personal business and has nothing to do with geocaching or this thread. Allowing our friends and families who are deployed to participate is huge. The event you are discussing in this thread involved two states with two actual physical events and allowed three separate servicemembers (DGS members also), who are deployed overseas in two different countries, to participate. Furthermore, the second state, was also a servicemember who recently had a permanent change of station, and this was part of his going away/beginning of a new journey/chapter. It is always difficult for us to say goodbye to our friends, and this is one way the we can stay in touch globally, and still attend events together. I for one, am not a numbers hound. That is obvious from the amount of finds I have. Actually, my number is not accurate. I do not log all of my finds most of the time. I rarely log micros unless I thought it was exceptional. Case in point, this weekend we found three. Two of the finds were awesome tunnel hides, and one of them was a micro. Eventually, I will get around to logging the tunnels, but I will more than likely never log the micro. I don't automatically log my finds, because I like to actually write a proper log and did not have the time to do that when we found them. The CO knows this and knows that I will write it this week. I only hunt caches that interest me, unless I am on a run with the DGS. I don't believe in leapfrogging. I believe in crawling in the tunnel or up a tree myself. Believe me, I do it myself. With that being said, I DO NOT believe any event should be logged as a find. Really, what did you find? It's a lame excuse for a smiley and a number, don't you think? Number hounds like them, because they run up their numbers. I am embarrassed by them, because I did not do anything to earn them but to show up and stand around. Believe me on this too, I stay for the whole thing until it shuts down. Always. I have done that from day one. My first one was the 10/10/10 event when I only had one find and knew no one in geocaching or anything about it. I still went, stayed the whole time, met two awesome Dirtbags, and am now hooked. I could care less whether you give me a smiley or allow me to log an event or not. I think it is a BS smiley. All I want to do is be allowed to have an event where my friends (and my husband when he is deployed) are allowed to livestream with us and say they participated (not physically attended-but participated). It is NOT cheating. If that is the case...then really...ALL events are cheating, because you didn't do a dang thing to earn that smiley!

Excuse me, briansnat, but I was under the impression that a "Moderator" (mediator) is a "nonpartisan presiding officer" over a group...according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary...all you have done is postulate your opinions all throughout this thread. That is not considered nonpartison. That is taking sides and attacking the other side. You are out of line and not doing your assigned duties as the "Moderator" of this group. THAT is not a personal opinion...that is FACT! genese09

Thanks for reminding me of that. My husband, Zinyata, who is also a member of our group, did the same thing. He was in Tajikistan at the time of the event and was able to attend virtually. You have no idea how much it means to them to be able to do this and to take part in activities that are going on at home with their friends and families. He enjoyed it and was actually able to see more going on than I was at times! Plus...he was actually on time to the event!

I was at this specific event, physically and virtually. Ie: I was physically there AND had it up on my iPhone and iPad. I watched the chat rooms as well as had a good time with the rest of the participants. I fail to see the issue with this. Why would it bother you? Everyone in the chat rooms loved it. They enjoyed watching the commentary and taking part in an activity that they could not travel to. Why would you want to take that away from anyone? Is this something you do all day? Sit around and find something wrong with what everyone else is doing and complain about it? To me, that just means you don't have enough going on in your own small lives. This is geocaching...instead of sitting around complaining on a website, go out and FIND something! genese09