i would agree with having some sort of minimum finds before hiding a cache... i recently showed a friend geocaching for the first time and just from the explanation of geocaching, she was ready to hide 10+ around our city. annoyed, i told her i should take her out for a day or so at least to find some, so she understands how they are hidden, and to understand "courteous" places to put caches as opposed to very inconvenient places. now im not using courteous to mean easy, by all means make a hide difficult and secluded in the woods if thats what youd like to do, but to place one in a very suspicious area that will surely get people stopped by police, no parking for miles near the cache, and somewhere where it is only safely accessible for monkey-like climbers at the top of a large tree are places i wouldnt put a cache. so, we went out for a day and found about 15 caches. the next day she hid 4 immediately: one in her gated community (which needs a passcode) outside of a random persons house, the second inside a generator at a public park where the rangers like to patrol 24/7, and a couple more in other not-so-good places. ive been caching for about a year, logged 70+ and still havent hidden any. so maybe im biased because of my experiences, but i think there should be some sort of requirement to stop situations like these from happening.
