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I came across a similar era virtual in the UK which had the same history, a trad. muggled. The listing was simply left pretty much as per the trad, just cache type switched to a somewhat mystifying virtual , the virtual requirement itself was unclear . However the immediate area was a great hidden spot to be taken to (and you'd be unlikely to get permission for a non-virtual) , and fascinating (once you managed to get to it), so it had merit beyond the rare type/placed date.

Am I reading this right ... you want someone, but not the C.O., to help you solve the puzzle so that you can tell everyone (presumably in your found it log) that you solved it on your own ?

The threadstarted by the author of GME is here, and suggests some folk have had problems with 'cookiebot' , that might be it ? I certainly have cookiebot blocked ...

It works for me still, just tried it : It doesn't work on the 'search' map though, the one which (Still, despite many requests on here) is forced on us as the default first map to (slowly) appear, you only get GME if you wait for that map to be at least partially loaded (if you are too quick to click on the 'browse 'map link, the map you get is centered on your home co-ords rather than whatever cache you are actually interested in), and then click on the 'Browse map' button. The Groundspeak mapping is so slow I seldom use it any more. To print a map for a walk I use GSAK and a macro (which I mentioned in a post earlier in this thread), which gives me a faster result with OS mapping , better icons, and labels which adjust immediately when the map is zoomed. The only feature I miss from GME is the route tool . It may be that your browser has been auto updated and broken the script , in which case other users will be along with the same problem soon. I've turned off auto updates for exactly this reason , when I manually allow an update on firefox I can immediately check my useful scripts are still OK, and if not, have a good idea why.

Humphrey Littleton (or should there only be one 't' in there ? ) What astonishes me about the show (apart from the straight faced Mornington Crescent running joke ) is how the utterly scurrilous chairman's remarks about the delightful Samantha ever got by the powers that be ...

Ding ( or possibly swanee whistle tootle) to MartyBartfast. 'Twas Major Clanger himself, here's an account of the incident with the script and the mischievous use Oliver Postgate put that sound clip to years later (about half way down the page) and QI showed the relevant clip. Mind you, in that QI episode Steven Fry says that the Clangers were in an episode of Dr Who , which is a bit misleading, In one scene The Master was watching TV, and an episode of the Clangers was on the screen.

Thanks. According to family tales, I took my first steps on a bowling green (my parents ran a pub which had one at the time) and I have absolutely no intention of providing some sort of narrative symmetry by taking my last steps on one as well ... OK, my question : Who said, on children's TV some years ago " @@@ it, the @@@@@ thing's stuck again ! " Yes, quote censored for bad language here, as it was on the BBC .

These lists of codes are used for discovered logs , and the loggers never have sight of the actual TB, let alone have it in their hands .

Yeah, I get that, but how does Groundspeak manage to sanction those who choose to cheat (or, as I expect they would characterize it, 'exploit a loophole' ) without having those people stop paying for their premium membership, and therefore impacting the profits ? (then they, and any non premium cachers locked out with them could just make a new free account and start again with the bulk logs.) Those cachers who are making these logs are customers, part of the revenue stream, and it seems there's quite a few of them, so there's a tough decision to be made by TPTB : sanction and alienate however many paying members, or have the sale of TB codes dip because this annoying problem makes the things less fun to own. Less controversial for them if they can find a way to tighten up the logging system and make it difficult (or preferably impossible) for those published TB codes to be so easily used in bulk .

Couldn't you note the tracking numbers, and log the discovery the next day if you'd exceeded the daily limit ? The cut off number doesn't have to be as low as 5 (which was given not as a log limit, but rather a number I''ve not often seen more than in a single cache), it would just need to be enough to keep honest discoverers happy after a day's caching, whilst making it an annoying task for the dishonest 'discoverers' ... I don't know what would be a reasonable number ... 10, 15 , 20 ? I'm trying to come up with workable ideas, but I can't see any other way to preserve 'discovered' logs and make the false ones less easy to do in bulk . I did think a 'capcha' requirement or similar annoyance (I hate the things on checkers etc ) might make every sort of TB log an individual , bulk-cheat proof thing, but I don't know if that could be implemented through the app. : if not, it's a bad idea for the reasons I gave earlier in this thread.

I did say "I've seldom seen more than 5 TBs in a cache" not I've never seen more than 5 TBs in a cache . There is no way for the system to distinguish genuine , saw it on the table at an event discoveries from non genuine , got the TB code from somewhere else is there ? Either Groundspeak reconciles itself to cachers being disenchanted with buying TBs, therefore having a reduced revenue stream from sales, or it does something to lessen the irritation for paying customers with these dishonest automated bulk logs. If the side game of crazy levels of TB discovery is seen as more important than selling TBs , that's up to Groundspeak

Now that's what I call extreme cache maintenance !

I log TBs on the website too (apart from auto dipping one of my own TB in all my finds using gsak) , but if the option for logging via the app was removed the vast numbers of people who apparently never visit the site, but only use the app. would be unable to keep the record updated, whilst still able to physically pick up any TB they found, which would effectively vanish. I doubt they would bother going to the website 'just' for that ... The api I believe 'throttles' the download of cache information (the number of caches I can get or refresh in gsak in a 24 hour period is large but limited) , could a similar artificial restriction be made for TB discoveries ? I've seldom seen more than 5 TBs in a cache over the years (maybe a couple of dozen at some events) , who would it hurt to have a low daily limit on discovered logs , apart from these cheats ?

Popular but quite sedate sport ? Has to be one favoured by those somewhat closer to demise than birth, and likely to keel over from age related natural causes rather than a dramatic accident ...so I'll guess bowls

<cough> GSAK Yes, I've been out and maintained the ones with the red DNFs showing. The mud was extreme

That word has me confusicated ...

"Old discussion, but current." Did you intend that pun ? It got an uptick off me either way ! This seems like a sensible and useful attribute to add. I have friends who own an electric-only car, and range anxiety is definitely a 'thing' for them. The current 'fuel nearby' attribute with its liquid fuel pump icon can stay for internal combustion engine fuel (however long that lasts) , and a new 'Electric car charging available nearby' attribute can be added ( something like 'E.V.' with an electric plug / cable image , or a lightning bolt seems to be a common icon for these things)

Yep , the original poster who made the thread can delete the whole thing at will if they wish , everyone's comments not just their own. Perhaps it's not worth spending time on replies to folk whose posts show a lack of appreciation for honest debate. Reputation points (those little numbers above the 'posts' number under your icon) as far as I know, are only added by others giving your post an uptick, not reduced in any way. Personally I'd see deleting a thread as the O.P. admitting the whole thing was an embarrassment to them and a total mistake, rather than that they somehow 'won'.

Great idea. +1 Would I still be caching .hiding and maintaining caches with Groundspeak without that excellent tool ? No.

I have only allowed 'required' cookies and have no problem* seeing cache pages with firefox . I'd hope 'required' means 'these are all the cookies you need for the site to function', rather than 'these are some of the cookies you need for the site to function', but after all the website <cough> improvements , it's not easy to be confident . *No problem that is apart from the difficulty of trying to distinguish the coloured marks from the not-at-all contrasting coloured background when trying to check/uncheck boxes in the cookie consent thing .

I read the topic title and thought it meant maintainers of extreme geocaches ... the above and beyond bit had me visualizing someone climbing a tree past where the T5 cache was to maintain it ... Maybe 'conscientious' would be a better word to use than 'extreme' . Less overstated and dramatic , but more accurate.

OK, so the tech savvy may laugh at this , as I'm no kind of expert when it comes to computers. That does however put me in the ideal situation to explain things in simple terms (because I only understand them in simple terms ... ) So, as others have suggested try adding NoScript to firefox , its quick, easy and can be removed simply if it turns out to not help: To add NoScript 1 Open firefox (any page , doesn't matter) 2 Click on the 3 horizontal bar icon at top right 3 Select from the drop down menu the jigsaw icon with the label 'add ons' 4 In the new screen select the top option 'get add ons' you are looking for 'NoScript Security Suite' , you probably need to click 'find more add ons' and scroll down , if it doesn't show in the popular section, find it by typing NoScript in the search box. 5 Once you find the page, download NoScript by clicking 'download'. I don't recall if I had to restart firefox to see the change , but there will now be a little blue or red 'S' in a circle in the bar to the right of your address bar. Click on it when you are on a webpage, and you will see that you have the option of setting various things as trusted, temporarily trusted, default or untrusted. I've set my preference to 'geocaching.com' trusted, ' cookiebot.com' untrusted, which works for me. If any webpage doesn't display properly, click that 'S' and play around with the permissions until it does. Your preferences can be changed with a click on the dropdown if needed, but once set you don't need to do anything the next time you on a geocaching.com page, NoScript remembers the setting for you. If this doesn't solve your problem , and you want to bin what you downloaded, all you need to do is click that 3 bar thing again from any web page, click on 'extensions', you see a list of your installed extensions, you can disable or remove NoScript with a click.

yep, w3w is not really something you could 'solve' for yourself with paper and pencil .... But then for me , anything which can be solved in seconds with an online tool isn't a really interesting puzzle unless , say, those vital 3 words are somehow cleverly concealed in the text or something. Curse my slow typing ! theBruce0 just said pretty much what I was going to say . I'll add though, there is a sudden fashion round my area for those awful online jigsaws as cache puzzles, co-ords in the final message. Doing them is pure relentless tedium , and I'd be eternally grateful to anyone who can devise an online solver !

You don't need to download the app, there is a what3words.com website. The easiest way I've come across to code/encode w3w to/from co-ordinates is the excellent geocaching toolbox Now this ( somewhat sarcastic take off of the w3w idea ) alternative is amusing , and I'd love to use it in a puzzle, but I don't think there is an easy way to get co-ordinates out of it to provide the required 'GPS use ' element ...what3emojis

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