FYI_Geocaching
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If you go back to Google maps mode the icons will still respond;Open the menu on the left hand side of the map pageSelect Set Map PreferencesSelect Google mapsClose menuUnfortunately you use the JRIs wonderful extension but you can always change back to leaflet mode when you want to.
Ah, I see what you mean. Whilst it doesn't solve the problem, it's not at all a bad idea, given the current shortcomings of Chrome . Thanks for pointing it out!
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The CO has responded to my query about the deletion. He states that "....nobody has or will be accusing you of not finding the cache simply cause there's no room to sign the log, so the log wasn't deleted for that reason.
The only reason therefore, is my comment that it's "Not really a D4, is it....spotted this from about 5 yards away, straight to it". A red card offence? I think not! Anyway, a bland TFTC (Grrr) has now been logged, which will hopefully draw the episode to an end.
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I posted the following log yesterday
Not really a D4, is it....spotted this from about 5 yards away, straight to it. As has already been noted on several occasions, the log is 100% full, no way I could sign. If CO wishes me to give a full description of where cache is, to prove find, I'm more than happy to oblige!
I have a message in my Inbox this morning to say that the CO has deleted my log. I'm somewhat at a loss as to why. He / she may be a bit miffed that their precious D4 was spotted straight away, but if they were that concerned about it, then they should have got out to replace the log (NM posted by last finder on 7th Sep, which was the 4th reference to the fact that the log needs replacing.)
I'd say I'm fully justified to have steam coming out of my ears right now. No sign of a message from the CO asking me to amend something that he / she may not have been happy about, just a straight "red card". Your opinion, please, dear reader!
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Yes, lots of us! There's a thread specifically about this somewhere else, I believe.
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Most recent post on this thread.Admin please lock as this thread has run it's course
My claims:
1) No.1 Grammar pedant (above post should not have an apostrophe. Should be its, not it's).
2) No.1 for posting on threads that others think should be locked.
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Tea. The vilest drink known to mankind. Even the smell of it from a few feet away makes me feel sick. Sorry, but I just don't get it.
Takes all sorts to make the world, eh?
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#1 in being nowhere near being #1 in any category, no matter how spurious you like to be.
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Anyone brave enough to go out caching today? That lion's probably hungry!
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I completed the Westcote Wander series earlier this week. Nice walk, some interesting caches, and....here's the bonus....they're all there at the moment! Starts and finishes in a village that time's forgotten!
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Looking for a geocache AND looking at pictures of semi clad women...now it doesn't get much better than that!!!
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Is that right....you have to "PUSH" the door to get into the phone box???? Maybe that accounts for the state of chaos inside!
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Taken opposite GC2RW7H - 0 favourites (well, you didn't say that the cache had to have favourites, just that it had to have a "unique" number of them!!!)
And yes, the goslings did indeed join Mum and Dad in the canal, one by one. The word that springs to mind is plummet, rather than jump!
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Dogfort, you may rest assured that I am an extremely pleasant chap, both in real life and in the surreal world that is geocaching. I agree that my amended question was a little on the mischievous side, you would no doubt describe it in somewhat different terms, but maybe it would not be a bad idea if someone would be so good as to state the blindingly obvious correct answer, and then I can depart this thread, never to return, at which point peace and harmony can return.
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As far as I am aware, Dogfort, I am not your son - and if you are old enough to be my father, then you have my deepest sympathy.
It would appear that my question doesn't seem to be too popular, so I shall withdraw it, and replace it with one more suitable for Dogfort to have a go at. Let's hope Maths is more up his street.
Q. What's 2 plus 2? (Hint, for Dogfort, the answer only contains one digit)
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Sorry, Dogfort, I didn't realise I had to ask a question that you know the answer to.
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Newcomer to this thread...seems like I have to set a question now.....ok, music....name the well known jazz singer who's married to the famous Brazilian percussionist from whom I take my geocaching name.
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Now there's a coincidence - has someone else been looking up the answers to GC1ZXBE???
The answer that you're looking for is The Hawthorns, with an altitude (presumably that's what you mean by "highest", rather than the ground where the most illegal substances are indulged in....) of 551 feet.
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Just read the log notes on your cache page. My opinion only, others may disagree, but would it be a nice gesture to contact the cachers who had to log a dnf and tell them that, in the circumstances, they can claim a find?
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Seen on the way to GC19CJ8
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Perfect!!! Many thanks. Thread closed!!
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I've just installed GC Vote (http://gcvote.com/index.php) to have a look and see what it looks like. Can't say that it adds much to the experience, and in fact seems to slow down moving from page to page. Does anyone know how to uninstall it (no information on the website, I just did a System Restore to see if it would disappear when I'd completed it, but no, the thing is still there!
I'm using Google Chrome...maybe if I uninstall it and reinstall, that would solve the problem?
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I like Number 2:
2. Roll down a really big hill
Use hills with gentle slope
Avoid areas recently occupied by livestock
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I think that the OP needs to contact all his rotund class mates and tell them to stop placing all these boring caches.
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Interesting statistics on The Spokes...
237 caches found in the 118 months since joining in June 2002. An average of 2 a month. Now if I was paying Premium Membership to find 2 caches a month, I'd expect nothing less than a solid gold container, and dancing girls leaping out from behind the nearest tree (or signpost), with a bottle of bubbly, when I found it. No wonder they're a bit hacked off at the mundaneness of it all.
4 caches found 2 days ago, no caching activity at all in the period from 11th Dec 2011 up until then, a period of almost 4 months. Seems like they're only part time cachers at best - or maybe that's about the length of time it takes to recover from having a gastric band inserted.......
Here's another thought. I don't know the area, but looking at the location of theses caches, they can all presumably be done as c&ds - all are situated on a road (naturally, if they're all on signposts). So, how did The Spokes arrive at these cache sites? Probably by car - just like all the fat lumps do. So, what do they expect? Maybe a nice walk in the countryside would be in order, away from those nasty signposts.....but there again, we don't want stiles and hedgerows incurring their wrath as well, now do we!
Log Deleted - your comments please!
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted · Edited by Team Airtomoreira
Yes, Seaglass Pirates, you are bucking the trend, aren't you!
Mocking? No. The cache has 2 dnfs out of 39 visitors. The 2 cachers who logged dnfs have a total of 46 finds between then. For them, this may well be a D4, as it would probably be their first experience of such a cache (a magnetic nano on the underside of a metal gate hinge – yes, really...a D4!) But for any cacher with a modicum of experience, this would be standard stuff. And surely that’s how a D rating should be calculated. My first ever find was a bog standard sandwich box at the base of a tree, a D1.5, but to me, at the time, it was a D5, because I didn’t really have a clue as to how this game worked, or exactly what I was looking for, but the correct rating is 1.5, not 5. My querying of the D4 rating was, I contest, fully justified. (As an aside, how many COs are tempted to “inflate” D and / or T ratings, so that they can gain a certain amount of “geokudos”, by being seen to set caches that are “cunning”, or similar – when in actual fact they’re not? And is it not more likely that this would happen when the CO in question has only 129 finds to his name....maybe he genuinely believes that this is a D4, as, when he saw it advertised on ebay, he thought it was the craftiest cache container he’d ever seen in all his caching days)
Superior? No. I did see it from 5 yards away, what’s wrong with me saying that? How many logs have you read which say “Nice easy find” “Saw it at once”, or similar. Are you suggesting that they should all be deleted, because they’re “superior”? No, of course you’re not. So, why should mine be deleted for that reason? It shouldn't. My seeing it straight away is further proof that the cache doesn't deserve its D rating. (If you looked at a cross section of my logs, you would also see that, far from being “superior” in attitude, I more often than not bemoan my lack of caching ability, my favourite phrase being that “The Curse of the Dumb a** Geocacher” strikes again). A further point to consider is that maybe the only reason why I saw it straight away is that it's been replaced wrongly by a previous cacher, in an easy to spot location. By telling the CO of this fact, I could actually be alerting him to the fact that he needs to pay a visit to reposition the cache so that it regains the true characteristics of a D4.
Dismissive. No. Technically, of course, you are correct, I didn't sign the log. But whose fault is that? Mine or the CO’s? The CO has been aware for the past couple of months that the log is full. If I had attempted to put my name on, it would have been at the expense of potentially defacing an earlier entry, thus putting that cacher’s log in jeopardy. Yes, I could have taken a photo, but not all of us are fully in tune with the wonders of modern technology. I didn't have my camera with me, and my mobile doesn't have a camera. Really, it doesn't! My offer of an exact description was therefore made as a genuine offer to assure the CO, if in any doubt, of my find. You seem to think that it would have been better if I’d not made this offer?
The CO was happy to accept that I’d found the cache, and acknowledged the fact that the log needed replacing, so that was not the reason that he took umbrage. The reason for the deletion is therefore one or both of my questioning the D level, and / or the fact that I saw it from 5 yards away. Cause for an instant deletion, without so much as a by your leave....surely not?
As you point out, my find has now been recorded by means of a TFTC. I'm confident that it’s the only TFTC that I've logged in 2600+ finds. TFTC is an insult to a CO who has gone to the effort of placing the cache, and I make sure that I always try to write something for each cache, even if it’s on a long series. However, if my “caching experience” at a particular cache is not entirely positive, I don’t see the harm in saying so. After all, the log will not only be read by the CO, but potentially by many other cachers considering a visit to that cache, and could assist them in making a judgement as to whether a visit should be made or not. You say that “if you feel strongly enough (presumably about a negative aspect of a cache) write a nice review and email them to let them know of your experience”. You’re not serious, are you? So, if I find a cache in a particularly undesirable location for example, or if there’s evidence of local drug taking, I shouldn't mention it in my pink fluffy log, I should merely write privately to the CO? That’s ridiculous. As far as I'm aware, we still live in a democracy.
So, we will have to agree to disagree!