For those inquiring minds…
I believe that the banning of Idratherbeinthewoods stemmed at least in part from a disagreement between himself and another member (let’s call him Member_X). To sum up the situation, he was mad because Member_X brought it to the attention of an approver (let’s call him Approver_Y) that the <a cache name edited by moderator> was still active despite the container no longer being present. People had continued logging their finds on line (a regular cache listing acting like a virtual cache). Below is the original text from the<cach name edited> log (with *’s substituted for the expletives and the other parties’ names changed to protect the innocent). Obviously, Idratherbeinthewoods' log has since been removed from the site.
<references leading to other cachers not involved in this discussion removed by moderator>
Note that this is not the first time that Idratherbeinthewoods had a disagreement with Member_X.
A few days after his <cache name edited> posting, all of Idratherbeinthewoods’ caches were archieved and it appears that he was banned from geocaching.com. He made a feable attempt to get back in the game under an alias identity "I'm back in the saddle again".
I'm back in the saddle again profile
Interestingly, all but 3 of “I’m back in the saddle again”’s 40 finds were geocaches once owned by Idratherbeinthewoods in an attempt to build up his points before he was caught.
On TerraCaching.com he has two identities/accounts, "Idratherbeinthewoods" and "My name is Earl". So far, he has transferred 7 of his geocaches to terracaches.
I can't believe he got banned just for posting that log in encrypted text (although the rules mention foul language as a bannable violation). Perhaps his log was followed by similarly harsh email messages to the other parties involved to escalate the situation. It's really too bad because I think that Idratherbeinthewoods really loved geocaching despite his disagreements with the establishment.
I would take this as a warning to us all not to get the geocaching gods mad at you.
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