Captain Faisua

One other thing. It's pretty unusual for them not to respond at all, especially on multiple cache hides at different times. Usually when people post here they never got a reply from Groundspeak or the cache reviewers its because of one of the following reasons, not that they were being ignored. Is it possible you either replied directly to the email you got when they left a note on your cache page? That comes from the GC.com email server, not the person posting the note. If you hit reply to that nobody will get the email. If you replied to them on the cache page and they asked you to email them, it's possible they never even saw your reply. It's possible you have a spam filter that is trapping their emails by mistake. Just a few of the common reasons I've seen posted here over the years. If memory serves, I could not just reply to a reviewers comments, but rather I had to click on the appropriate link on the cache page. I tried both, but got no response. My spam filter accepts all messages from geocaching.com, so I don't think that was the issue. Anyway, it was a frustrating experience.

Did I call you a Nazi? Or did I refer to you as one of the thoughtful helpful people who made geocaching possible? You decide. Anyway, I've said my piece, I have little elce to add. I would just ask the reviewers to lighten up, and be more friendly, helpful and responsive in cases where a new cache may infringe on some rule you have.

The clock is ticking on how long it take before we find out the real reason the caches were disallowed. We've only seen this about, oh, a thousand times before. "My cache was denied for [insert ridiculous reason here]!", only to find out the actual reason later on. It sounds like your mind is made up. I'm guess that it would be a waste of my time to try to explain anything to you.

Thank you. I forgot in my anger that I do really appriciate the thoughful and hardwork of the many persons who have made geocaching possible.

StarBrand - You are right, the many volunteers who have made geocaching possible deserve our accolades. I certainly do not mean to discourage the thoughtfull and hard work that they have put into it. I also do not want to see it ruined by a few geo-nazi's. Take care. PS - I did move my cache, and it is now published. But the issue of unavailable caches taking up prime geocaching real estate remains.

Before continueing, let me express my accolades and sincere thanks for the thoughtful and hard work of the many volunteers who have made the geocaching possible. This letter is not for you. It is for the geo-nazi's. My concern is with what I consider to be arbitrary and narrow-minded decisions of certain geocaching reviewers. Two times now, reviewers have prevented me from publishing a cache. The first time because I made three caches within in a short period of time with similar names and descriptions. I don’t know why that was so unbelievable, but the reviewer blocked them, and would not respond to my explanations. Just recently, a reviewer disallowed my new cache because I had inadvertently placed it within 0.1 miles of another cache. That other cache was “temporarily unavailable” at the time, which is why it did not show up when I was researching my cache. Again, that reviewer would not respond to my queries. And the other cache remains "temporarily unavailable", and thus tieing up some prime geocaching real estate. Now it appears that a geospider I released a couple years ago has met it’s death because someone placed it into a cache that a reviewer has prevented from being published. I had enjoyed watching that geospider as it moved from place to place. Now it appears it has gone south of the border permanently. My letter below describes the situation. I hope that geocaching.com reviewers will lighten up and get off their high horses. And why do they have to make it so difficult to send them an email message? And why do they not respond to messages? If they continue their supercilious behavior, I fear that they will take the fun out of geocaching. ----------------------------------------- I sent this message to "steveandki"; Hello, I am owner of the spider "Charlie I'm scared of the sea Tuna". According to the logs, you put this spider into a new cache you created called "Gato Del Mar". That cache has yet to be published, which I presume means that Charlie and the rest of the cache's contents will never see the light of day again. This is unfortunate. I also have had trouble publishing a couple caches, due to the annoying and arbitrary decisions of a reviewer on Geocaching.com. In my case, the reviewer questioned the validity of my caches because I made several caches with similar sounding names and descriptions. Then the review would not respond to my explanations for that. Anyway, I hope a similar fate has not prevented your cache and my geospider from death. Please let me know if you are successful in getting "Gato Del Mar" published. -Captain Faisua cc: Geocaching team.

I would also like to see a more robust search and download feature in geocache.com. What I want to do is download with one "click" all the caches within 200 miles of my zip code, or say perhaps all the new geocaches in a given area. Ultimately I want to save the data in a text file to import to TopoUSA.