Bubbles (the Penguin)

I can give you a fine example of what I would call a “number ho”. In our little caching community we have a cacher gone bad. He was deleted by several cache owners for posting bogus cache finds just to reach the number one spot in his state. To make up for the lost numbers he started logging “attended” logs on one of his archived events and back dating several logs on his own archived caches just to make up the numbers. I think if you are so worried about your stats that you have to resort to logging your own caches and events that have been archived nearly a hundred times you are definitely a “number ho” I don’t care if your profile says its all about the fun and the friends, you are a number ho. For an example of what I’m talking about check out the cache GCM73T and other archived caches and event by the same cacher.

You must never never never criticize CCCooperAgency. Geocachers just don't do that. Its like African Americans criticizing Martin Luther King. It just aint done. If you do, you will be reminded how jealous you are of her success at geocaching. Go stand in the corner-forever VERY WELL SAID!

Against my better judgment I’m going to chime in here. First let me say that the cache that you have been directed to look at is mine. The reason I posted the note that I did was that I thought by shedding light on this persons cheating that it might curb their activity. Let me also say it wasn’t just about logging caches that they didn’t find. If you did anything disagreeable to this cacher, your caches would start disappearing, your name would get slandered around with outlandish lies or you may even receive indirect threats. I grew tired of the behavior of this cacher and his so called team and decided for my own part I would take a stand. I had been discussing at length with other local cachers about deleting the false finds on our caches. No one could decide when the right time would be to do so. When the confessing cacher ended his relationship with the “team captain” and ousted publicly the wrong doings on mine and several other owners’ caches I decided it was time for me to act. I had already deleted the “only female member” of the team’s logs because we discovered that she wasn’t a cacher at all and didn’t realize she even had an account at GC.Com. It was a photo clerk from a local retailer that they had “made friends” with long enough to get some photos for a “sock puppet account”. This account was used to taunt another local female cacher and bash her. I then deleted all of the finds for the “team captain” from my caches explaining that his behavior towards others was unacceptable and he would not continue to play out his charade using my caches. This person’s only goal is to be number one in his state and I guess eventually in geocaching period. Although his account says it’s all about the fun and friends to make up for the caches that myself and some other locals deleted him from he started logging “attended” over and over again on one of his archived events. He made up cache descriptions and logs in an attempt to make the logs convincing but most of the descriptions are wrong. This person was notorious for changing his screen name before that feature was locked. About the time the account names were locked was the same time the second sock puppet account mentioned in KK log above was made up. It has no finds, no hides, no nothing and has been active since January of this year. Even if you were a newbie cacher certainly you would have had some activity in eight months time. I made all of my caches premium members only so that I could see who had been looking at my caches because of the destructive behavior of this cacher. The account mention by KK above looks at my caches and the caches of other owners in this area almost daily, yet never logs a cache, never hides a cache, does nothing but look. This account is used solely for nothing other than hiding someone’s identity. We as a geocaching community were trying to police our own as we have been instructed to do. When you have a cacher that goes about slandering people’s names, destroying numerous caches and generally causing a disturbance wherever he goes, you can see why he might have a reason to hide his identity. I too agree that an account that has been used for nothing but lurking for an extended period of time should be looked into. Eight months is a long time. I don’t think this answers why are sock puppets allowed, but it may at least shed some light on why this particular set of sock puppets are in question in the first place.

Can anyone out there tell me if there is a geocoin for the Army or honoring a soldier? I'm looking for a special gift for a friend. Thanks

I'm not sure which coin you are thinking about, there is no Ireland geocoin so far (see also http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=133879 ) I saw an "Irish" coin listed at Geocoinclub.com under "Codes in our database" they are in alphabetical order. Hmm may have to send them an emai.

I am looking for two of the Irish Geocoins, but will settle for one. I have trades or will purchase. I also have three coins I am looking to adopt out and not sure how to go about this as I'm pretty new to the coins. I have some GW4's in my traders if someone can find me the Irish coins.