schattentanz

I don´t have many caches out, nor do I want to. But on each, I´ve had no reports of moved caches. The logbooks on the otherhand have been moved to parts unknown.

No need. It´s more a general bad habit of mine to use general words like "here", meaning here here, not here forum. It also drives some people I speak with crazy. It´s been a while since I was in a forum, and often forget that world wide part of things.

I was referring to some of the cache owners in this area, not the forum. Next time, I´ll make it a bit clearer which is the target of the comment.

I know what to do! Be like the people here. Start with a "The caches in the area were there for so long, and caused no damage" followed by saying he´s just upset and wants the caches gone because he´s not first to find. Then post a million pictures of the area in question, with a billion excuses... And I stop there because I find it so mind-numbingly stupid what some people do and say in this area. Send your friend the way you went to search if there´s the signs along that way, and if there´s some that say it is indeed the park. It could be that the road and the area around it is the private property. When that´s the case, make waypoints going around the proper, legal way. Then when someone decides to take the short and easy way, and gets in trouble, it´s their problem. Provided that the cache is where it´s allowed to be.

Nope. I`ve encountered 0 ad-specific caches, but there were caches removed for other after the fact reasons around here. Many of the caches around here you could only write "Eat a" on. I can only really say when you think so, then try it. Make a box look like a nascar hood, and stick it out there. When someone who isn´t only after the points comes around, and moreso not a friend, it could be that they say something and it vanishes.

Correct. While nobody sees what goes into the initial contents, people finding it do, and can say something about it, which can shorten the life of the cache severely. Í think it´s safe to say many cachers carry a camera of sorts, and I´m one of them. When I do find a bigger problem, I do photograph and report. I´m not sure of the consequences of such a cache being found, because individual caches archived by force seem to have no real effect to what the hider can do, but would like to think a larger number of commercial caches hidden and removed at once would be a bit more of a red flag against the hider.

I meant both. The weekly ad on the cache page is as bad as the one in the box plastered with ad stickers, with "shop here!" motivation inside.

http://coord.info/GC23VYJ That was a cache that was hidden by a person who made an account just for the cache, which was placed in a shopping mall with the same name as the hider. It lasted over a year until it was archived for maintenance issues. I think the contents of the cache determine if it´s acceptable more than the name.

Keep an eye on it. It could be that it ends up in some sort of list. I moved two from here in Germany to the US, and found out later that the previous finder had made a picture of both with visable codes. One is http://coord.info/TB335VP second is http://coord.info/TB33GEB . The odd part is only one of the two gets quite a bit of discoveries, even though both codes are visable. Seems to be a Czech thing.

There´s a cache note under http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ in multiple formats and languages.

What I found annoying with my caches are the weather related complants, the other-cacher damage, and the handholding/"Forrest" complaints. On one, someone tossed a few stepping stones into the water to make a walkway of sorts, then complained the cache was too easy. The current other constantly gets bombed with terrible attempts at rehiding, including dumping massive amounts of sticks and random crap on it. I didn´t make/want the walkway, and I didn´t camo the other because it is simply too big and stands out from it. Weather complaints are on all that I have, and most likely ever will have. The easier one really has alot of handholding complaints, the other not so many. People want to complain because they blindly follow that gps signal, instead of searching the few yards away for that path. I constantly get "That farm field is annoying!", regardless of there being many real paths there. I skipped the 10 or so possible waypoints because too many would ignore them, and still run across that field. "Forrest" complaints won´t be explained at this time, because I think it´s a bit obvious what is meant. Maybe later, or privately.

I brought a bag of coins and tags on a plane from Düsseldorf to London, then to USA. The coins were in carry on, the geobag in checked in. I had 0 problems. Nobody wanted to even check more than the x-ray. Should be no problem, depending on what´s connected to the tb.

Paranoia aside and returned to reality... We have a few hiders here who have had many questionable locataion caches, and I don´t mean 5/5 in urban areas. These caches have been reported by other cachers, city officials, or other involved non-players. All were archived. Nobody cared. Nobody was hit with massive revenge plans or cache-warfare. No bad words were said to the reporters. However, the hider´s reputation went down the tubes because of their ego and egocaches, and when they did the semi-hostile logs on newbies, many others in the local community had no problem giving said newbie a "it´s fine" and then pointed out the egocacher´s own problems. Simplified: The most of the cachers around go "Yay, point!" to the find, think nothing of it when it´s gone, because they found it already, then go "Yay, point!" again to the next cache that appears in that area.

I´ve seen a coin that the owner WANTED people to make a copy and let the copies and original(copy) further travel. I found one of the copies, tried to discover, and it was locked from logs. However, I´ve also seen use of the Travelbug stamp set for discover only, which is not locked. The owner only requested that you say where you saw it. So with the discover only signature item, it´s hard to say if it´s actually bad without an official ruling. Or, the person could simply make a stamp with another code. It would be a nice change to see more than stacking travelbug finds.

PMO caches don´t have much of an advantage outside of less traffic. I had one of my caches(non-PMO) badly misplaced and mishandled twice. The first time, it was simply tossed into the water, and floated deeper into the little tunnel, which is small, and I had to retrieve it. Last find was by a group of 3 premium members, and left in the box was someone elses cache(minus logbook), and some ABC gum. Second time it was simply dumped out into the water, and the box left in a very easy to get to spot. With trackables, they vanish here in all caches with the same frequency. Normal or PMO plays no role, except maybe less need to constantly change full log books.

The people here reeeally love coins. So much that they constantly get stolen, and fairly quickly, too. Some people log taking them from a cache, and never play again. Some sit for short few days in a cache, then are simply gone without anyone logging it. I´ve even seen fake drop-offs. When I looked at the geocoin map for my home area, I think all but a couple listed are gone. Could just be the area, but I wouldn´t really want to test it.

Don't understand this one. Can you elaborate? as an example go 100 feet at 180°. I go in that direction and find nothing because it´s in reality 185° or 190° and find the cache by chance when looking for things that pass to the hints. It might not sound like much, but over a longer range, it´s quite the ways off.

With not so many logs on my caches, I still read them, but they get sent to another folder. I made one for each cache. set sender to noreply@geocaching.com as someone already said, and make it search for "found (cachename)" in the body. That way, all founds go to your geospam folder, and the other logs are in the inbox. When you still want those that is.

Let´s see... 1. Caches with "Everyone is responsible for themselves", "Go at your own risk", "Don´t call attention to yourself", and so on, just to find that all translated as "Cache is in a forbidden spot". 2. Not-buried buried caches.(Shoved into the ground PETlings, other containers that the owner magically found that perfect hole for) 3. Attached to bench caches on very busy ways. I really find the line "Excuse me. I have to play around under your butt for a minute" a bad way to meet new people. 4. Urban/busy area climbing caches, some of which are in places where it´s more dangerous to go there at night as it is to actually climb for. 5. Protected area caches in general. 6. Not in an explicitally forbidden place, but still forbidden enough to get the finder in trouble when caught. 7. Biggest one: Caches hidden by Alts. Not calling it a sock puppet when it´s not used to flame/spam/harass, but to make a find to pad one´s numbers. Forgot one. 8. Multi/Mystery caches that use bearings with wrong numbers and/or distance.