Kouros

quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:Not to start Yet Another Stats Flamewar, but if the position of TPTB is that numbers don't matter, why should they care if a few idiots fake their finds on virts? Probably because it leaves the door open for a malicious cacher to be, well, malicious. The numbers game might not matter to many, but for some it does, and having no verificatopm would allow a mean cache to log any number of caches in the pretense that he is "winning", thus spoiling the game for those who do keep count. Also, although many cache owners don't care about the numbers, I know that many (myself included) care about who has taken the time to visit them, and where they have come from. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

1. Winchester Treasure Hunt, and How many kinds of sweet flowers grow? are two that immediately spring to mind. As for non-urban, I can heartily recommend View of a Cache or Three, Beacon Book Box, and Talking to the Troops. 2. Haven't got a clue. 3. Sure, name a date/place and we'll be there 4. Heh! Should be fun! I can think of a number of others that are good round here for night caching too... though you might be best to ask Dan and Pid to recommend a couple from their last trip. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Wood Smoke:I think the suggestion is a Saturday evening do, with a drunken comatose sleep, and then sort yourself out on Sunday :-) But that's not very morally upstanding! Again, where do I sign? ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Wood Smoke:Or are we camping again??? In December? Sounds like fun! Where do I sign? Oh, and Saturday is good for me, but if it's a stop over affair, would it be a Friday to Saturday, or weekend job? Just curious. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Sparticus:Oi, who's taking my name in vain!! Sorry, couldn't resist! ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

It might mean that someone has taken whatever it was attched to, thinking that it was a valid trade item. I'd be inclined to contact the owner of the TB to see if it was attached to anything before. If it was, you could always replace the item with a similar one (with a note reminding cachers to not trade for it) or return it to the owners so they could replace it. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

The Fox Hunt last year was great fun (even if we did rack up far too many miles considering where we eventually caught you up). Maybe this year I'll do it on bike? Looking forward to it already! ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

Did the finder say in the log that he found it? It might sound kinda silly, but is it possible that he just forgot to click the button to change it from a "found" to a "not found"? ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Daft Tart:Thanks for all that info, criminal, but WAAS is an American thing and I am based in England. Unfortunately, we do not have anything like that. Just to let you know, the European version of WAAS (called EGNOS) is currently being tried out. It's still very much at the Trial stage as far as I am aware, but considering that it will be entirely compatible with WAAS getting a GPS that is WAAS enabled would be the way to go. I must admit that I don't know too much about it, but feel free to post in the United Kingdom forum, or have a look at This Site. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Dan Wilson:aslong as it fits with days off work eg not friday, saturday or monday. <bitter> That can't be right, surely? </bitter> ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

As far as number 2. is concerned, it can all be done with a little HTML know-how, which you could learn from here. Hope this helps. Bear in mind though, that some people find excessively media oriented pages annoying - for example, obscure background colours, or even music, and moving text. In HTML, less is often more. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by trippy1976:Wear sunscreen. See, I was sorely tempted to do a "wear sunscreen" joke, but the fact of the matter is is that it's true - I forget how many times I've been out for a long hunt and forgotten the cream. All larking about to one side, trust him on the sunscreen. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Mark 42:http://www.happy.com/ Hey! That's commercial! That's not allowed! (ad infinitum....) ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

If you're still online (rather than out in the field) you can click on "decrypt" and the page will do it for you - otherwise, not really. After a while, you might learn to be able to 'read' the messages through the code. It takes a little effort. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by SLCDave:Man, that hit me funny.... I had people looking at me funny because I just started laughing at my desk. I can't take credit for it, though. I read it on another forum (I forget which) and stole it. Sorry to the guy who coined it if you ever read this... ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:There once was a man from Nantuckit......who hid a cache in a doot bucket... ...the finders were sparse... ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

There was a young cacher named Buster, Who good sportsmanship could never muster. At his very first cache He left nothing but trash And others in a bit of a bluster. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by leatherman:I think the people that, truly, don't care about stats don't log finds. I beg to differ. I log my finds on site because I think the cache owner will want to know of my experience while doing the cache. I could email them, granted, but logging it also allows others to find out about my experiences - was it positive, negative, etc. I could just post a note - but then, at a glance, a user or cache owner would not be able to tell if the last find was a DNF, which is especially important if you are going out of your way to a cache. On at least one occasion, because of my DNF log, a cache was discovered as missing, and replaced almost immediately. Logs serve a purpose. So yes, I log my finds, but for different reasons than for the numbers - flawed reasons they may be, but reasons nonetheless. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:Would you stop geocaching if there were no statistics on this site at all? Nope. quote:If there was no record of how many caches you had found, would you become disinterested? Nope quote:How important is the statistical component of geocaching to you? Not so much. As I said in another thread, at any one time I couldn't tell you how many caches I'd found without looking it up, and to be frank, I'm not fussed. I could talk for hours about the walks I've had to some really great cache sites though - that's what matters to me, I guess. quote:Would you miss being able to view other geocachers statistics, especially their quantity of caches found, if this ability were removed? Ironically, yes, I would. Sometimes it is interesting to see how many caches a person had found, but usually I only look at that sort of info to quell my own interests. It wouldn't really affect me badly. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

I kinda always thought that after you had found a multicache, the page should say how many individual steps made up the cache, and that a tally could keep count of all visited. That said, I'm not overly fussed. I'm not a big fan of the numbers game - without looking I couldn't tell you even roughly how many I'd found (I could guess it was in the seventies or eighties, but I'm not too sure), so overall, it doesn't really faze me. Bit of a circular post, I guess. Sorry. EDIT: 76 apparently. I feel so proud. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

quote:Originally posted by Jomarac5:My complaint is about site owners who don't know how to moderate their own forums. Just my opinion, but... Unless you post every single message to a thread yourself, there's no way to ensure that any thread will stay completely on-topic. Something that one individual brings up will bring up a germination of an idea in another - even if it is just a joke - and will want to share it with others... it's all part of the evolution of the thread. There is a point where that could degrade into Trolling, but in the examples you cite (in both your complaints) it all seems pretty good humoured to me. Threads go off-topic on occasion. Deal with it. ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there." [This message was edited by Kouros on August 18, 2003 at 10:13 AM.]

Nope. Never seen that logo before, but I did seem to run into some rather fortunately shaped grit on my lens... ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

Well done Alex! ------ "There's Sparticus. That's him, over there."

I'm sure someone will be able to Markwell you to some older threads, but those movies which I can remember that regularly get debated re: Caching... Star Trek Nemesis - When Picard, Worf and Data fly down to that planet to pick up pieces of Lore... I mean B-4. The Shawshank Redemption - Under the stone with no eartly purpose in being there. ------ An it harm none, do what ye will

------ An it harm none, do what ye will