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Sock Puppets are against the Forum guidelines:
4. Sock puppet accounts are not permitted. A sock puppet is an account made on an internet message board by a person who already has an account for the purpose of posting anonymously. Use your own account for posting personal opinions. Posts from known sock puppet accounts may be deleted and both the puppet and actual account may be banned from using the services of Groundspeak.
GOF and his sock puppet are goners.
Thats good news.
Lucky for me I have more.
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In all likelihood, you are looking at a database error.
In fact, if the person who appears to have taken your avatar corrects theirs, yours may change to theirs.
This is because the key relations in the database have probably become corrupted. It happens.
When the database regenerates tonight, the problem will most likely go away. I agree with the previous poster. This geocacher appears to be above board and not likely to have done this of their own volition.
If I am right, this will not be an issue tomorrow.
$ 0.02
I agree with this; the whole thing is too strange. Especially since I just noticed "see the forum posts by this user" is broken in everyone's profile. At least as of the second I type this.
Besides, the guy's from Wisconsin. I figure he'd at least change Washington to Wisconsin, right?
It could be worse. The guy could be rolling with O.J. Simpson's mug shot, and "don't tase me bro".
Howdy Mr. Yuck!
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Still a n00b by any other sock. Six years here. N00b. Six.
Since May 5th, 2010, huh?They have been "working" on something for the forums as long as I have been around. I'm not all that excited by yet another "we're working on it" statement.
n00bs!!
I am, of course, speaking of one of my previous incarnations. That makes it 5 years now.
I'll catch up one of these days. You just wait and see!
Just shut it, ya n00b sock puppet.
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Agree 110%... it's doesn't take a improperly hidden cache to give GC a black eye. People caught digging in an Indian mount because they had the coords wrong and don't know caches can't be buried, people who don't read the listing and park illegally, or take the wrong approach, jump fences and get caught cutting thru yards or pastures... when asked what they were doing and they reply "geocaching", it does the same damage as a bad hide might. You can put "DO NOT TOUCH" signs all around something all you want and yet clean the fingerprints off it every dayA cache in preserve, the listing provides the preserve name and that the cache is about a mile from the entry. 2 different cachers drove as close to the cache as they could (about .2 miles - driving past the preserve entry), trespassed across heavily posted private property, found the cache, then ripped me in their logs for "sending them" across posted land! "you are the kind of cacher who gives geocaching a bad name" (really). D'ohKeeping the hides as quality as possible helps, but having an educated caching community would help, too
Chance are real good you will have to clean 'em of the signs.
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An oft debated topic. You need to make a decision on each cache as to how you will proceed. With experience some of the caches that you think are hard you will walk right up to. some bystanders you will feel safe explaining to what you are doing and some will make you just turn around and not risk finding the cache.
The bigger issue is not looking suspicious. The last thing you want is to have some bystander think you are up to no good. Leads to run ins with the law and caches being visited by the bomb squad.
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To protest the recent changes made to geocaching.com, we are temporarily disabling all our active cache hides (163 total) for one week beginning 01-18-10. If you are unhappy with the changes made to geocaching.com and want your voices heard, disable your cache hides along with us. Together we can perhaps get the point across.
A&H,
While I commend your effort to bring the issue to GS, I hardly think that disabling or even archiving your placed caches are going to do anything short of punish those of us who seek your hides.
Rather than disable you hides, why not simply add a short note to the description or a log that
"The above (or below) corruption in HTML you see is due to Groundspeak's incompetence and failure to thoroughly test the recent site updates/changes/downgrades and is not a reflection on the abilities of the owner of this cache. To help us resolve these issues, please contact Groundspeak (insert Groundspeak's phone number, complaint number etc... here)"
Maybe if their phones start to ring off the hook and their email boxes begin to fill, they may get the point. Disabling your caches is not something that they will see let alone make any sort of impact.
That is more likely to get a response. The OPs proposed action amounts to little more that glaring at the back of signals head.
So glare away:
Why would I glare? My cache pages work fine.
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To protest the recent changes made to geocaching.com, we are temporarily disabling all our active cache hides (163 total) for one week beginning 01-18-10. If you are unhappy with the changes made to geocaching.com and want your voices heard, disable your cache hides along with us. Together we can perhaps get the point across.
A&H,
While I commend your effort to bring the issue to GS, I hardly think that disabling or even archiving your placed caches are going to do anything short of punish those of us who seek your hides.
Rather than disable you hides, why not simply add a short note to the description or a log that
"The above (or below) corruption in HTML you see is due to Groundspeak's incompetence and failure to thoroughly test the recent site updates/changes/downgrades and is not a reflection on the abilities of the owner of this cache. To help us resolve these issues, please contact Groundspeak (insert Groundspeak's phone number, complaint number etc... here)"
Maybe if their phones start to ring off the hook and their email boxes begin to fill, they may get the point. Disabling your caches is not something that they will see let alone make any sort of impact.
That is more likely to get a response. The OPs proposed action amounts to little more that glaring at the back of signals head.
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Send your reviewer an email. That way you avoid any misunderstandings.
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I always think it's funny when someone starts a thread and no one agrees with them, and when someone says something favorable towards them, they say "thanks for being objective", which is code for "thanks for agreeing with me, you are the only one, so clearly you are being objective".
It was obvious before we started this tread what the responses would be from the usual suspects.
We just want to say, you screwed up Groundspeak.
Since you cruise the forums regularly you know we are not the only ones saying this.
Posters who point their finger at us and say our listings are the problem, are not being objective. And others who make it personal, have nothing to say. People who disagree with our method are welcome to do so.
Oh, one more thing, thanks for agreeing with us Iller!
No matter whose fault it was the thing everyone here is trying to tell you is that your temper tantrum (Call it protest if you want) is not going to sway TPTB. About the only thing that will happen is that your caches will be lrft off a few PQs when people select the "is active" option.
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Hey! What do you guys feed your peeves? Mine is looking rather malnourished.
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We wrote:
Probably none of your 4 hides have been affected, but many of ours have been.What part of our statement is rude? We are stating facts; he has 4 hides, his 4 hides are unaffected by the recent changes as far as we know, his 4 cache pages appear to look ok. However, several of our cache pages have been altered drastically due to the recent changes.
Oh, I just love it when someone says something that is clearly designed to be condecending, and then claims that they are only stating facts. Get real.
That's just like the street thugs who are caresul to word their threats in such a way that they cannot be proven to be threats.
Oh...I never said that I was going to hurt him, I just said he might get hurt.
Well, it could also be that the amount of work needed for Arse&Hemi to go through their 163 active caches and modify the html code where it is broken, is quite a lot of work and that they have a lot more reason to complain about the layout changes than someone with 4 caches that render properly with the new layout.
Arse&Hemi has invested a lot of unpaid time and effort in geocaching.com with their caches and I can understand their frustration when they have to invest a lot more time and effort just because someone decided to change the layout of geocaching.com without prior notice.
So yes, I think that someone with 163 active caches has a lot more reasons to complain for the amount of work they will have to put in, than someone with 4 caches.
Of course, anyone regardless of the number of caches he/she has hidden, has equal right to complain about the layout issues for caches own by other users, but that is quite a different thing.
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Welcome to the world of cache ownership. Can't handle it? Then perhaps it is time to archive a few.
If the OPs statement had been a mere point of fact they would not have found it necessary to highlite the number in red.
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Um...At the risk of having you think I'm one of "those" responders I gotta ask. You do realize that 15-20 feet is well within the margin of error of consumer grade GPS receivers, right?
I don't know whose receivers are always at 15 to 20 ft, but my Garmin Rinos are ALWAYS within 6 to 8 ft?
And my 60Cx is always within 6 to 8 feet. That is as much as 16 feet between us. Simple math.
Edit to clarify that I am using a different computer and logged in under my old account. This is actually Gof of Gof & Bacall.
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With only 4 finds you could just create a new account and re-log the few caches you have found. Just include a note to the cache owner explaining what you are doing.
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http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6G8T_Ammo_Can
I saw this in Waymarking and thought it was awesome. Swizzle
As a geocacher, I love it, however, the Muggles in my netghborhood are not likely to drive by and think, "Oh, he must be a geocacher!" I'm not sure I want to be connected with some of the ideas they might come up with.
To <heck> with what the neighbors think!
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Who is in that area and can take the OP out to hunt a couple down?
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I take it you don't read coordinates. 44 degrees 05.000 N. Is 44 degrees 05.528 N 528 ft apart?
While others have now answered this question I will point out that it wasn't the question you had asked to begin with. That is why no one was answering it.
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So, what name should we be watching for?
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Read the replies. There are several spots where replies state 528 feet. At least one that says .10 miles. I have no idea where the decimal came from that you put in front of the 528.
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As you add to your caching experience two things will happen. You will begin to take individual cachers and their hiding habits into account. You'll recognize CacherX and know what to expect. You will also begin to learn all the odd tricks that make some caches seem hard now and will be old hat later on.
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A) A reviewer is not all knowing. He does not know every square foot of the thousands of square miles he reviews for.
2) How much clearer an answer do you need? 528 feet from any other cache. Straight line not walking around the bend in the trail.
Sheesh!
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So will someone answer this question........When you look at the distance between two caches, do you look as the crow flies or the actual distance one has to go to get to the two caches? Never did get a reply from my fantastic reviewer to that question.
(your GPS distance)
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So will someone answer this question........When you look at the distance between two caches, do you look as the crow flies or the actual distance one has to go to get to the two caches? Never did get a reply from my fantastic reviewer to that question.
The world is flat. At least it is when placing a cache. All measurements are straight line.
Load into your GPS receiver the nearest caches to your proposed new location. Go to that proposed location and look at your GPS. Does it say 527 feet or less? You have a problem. Does it say .10 miles or more? Good to go. Alternately plug the coordinates into this page and see what pops up.
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Then what do you need us for? You've got it under control.
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Talk to the reviewer. An open dialog will help prevent any misunderstandings.
You couldn't have found a picture of a crow in flight?
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