UUS
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Ein kleines Wort an die Cacherpolizei da draußen möchte ich auch noch los werden:
Ihr [beleidigung entfernt], wenn euch mal was nicht in den Kram passt, dann einfach mal [beleidigung entfernt] oder dem Owner ggf. eine Mail machen. Ein „Herr Lehrer, Herr Lehrer, ich weiß was“ kam noch nie gut an. Die eigene Meinung ist nicht immer die einzige und richtige!
Ich hätte es nicht schöner Ausdrücken können.
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Uwe.
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I am no expert in German nuisance law, but in the US, if a home is devalued because of an unforeseen expansion of a loud or noxious business, you can sue to recover the lost property value. Perhaps your dispute is better heard in court than on the geocaching forum.
Here in Germany this doesn't work. If a home is devalued it is your problem except the airport builds directly beside your home. And in this case you get only soundproof windows if you have a liitle luck.
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Uwe.
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I do not see any commercial character of this cachelisting and it seems that none of the other finders have.
Unfortunately the cache description is not commercial but the webpage Geocaching - Dortmund Airport uses a link to the cache and some TBs for a competition where you can win something. Here the airport uses Geocaching for commecial use. Thats in my opinion a violation of the guidelines. But I think Groundspeak is happy with this promotion. Obviously no one at Groundspeak speak german and understand the content of the page.
Yes, there are some unusual situation. The owner ID seems to be created just for this purpose of placing the cache, the existence of the cache is advertised outsite of Groundspeak, several TBs got distributed with missions related to the airport itself.
Exactly that is the point I don't like.
Nevertheless, this cache has no obvious "agenda". The existance of the airport is surely already known by everyone in that area and therefore I see it similar to all those "Mc Donalds" caches.
If you would like to publish a cache protesting against the airport, you would have a personal agenda and therefore your cache would not get published.
You would need to present your protest against the airport in a "neutral" form. Maybe a mystery which requires geocacher to learn about the history of the airport would make some people think about the effect to the environment but do not include "suggestive questions" like "How many people are affected in their sleep by the airport?"
I'm working on a cache with documented facts about the noice and other problems of the airport. But I fear if I insert the link to the webpage of the airport opponents this will not be published because of "commercial use".
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Uwe.
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by the way UUC, we see you handle English just perfect,
Thanks, I do my very best using my school english.
why not add a little English text on your own cache pages
and make English hints too, this way Turists may find them much more fun to find,
you can then add the Turist Friendly icon to your cache page.
you live in a nice area with alot of turists, so it is a nice thing to do.
by the way your hints decrypter dont work.
I will think about it. BTW, a hint in "[]" will never be decrypted on the side. You have to copy it to <www.rot13.de> or similar. There it works. ;-))
by the way UUC, we see you handle English just perfect,
I LOVE the rainbow bridge, VERY beutiful at night.
Yes, I thought this bridge deserves a cache to show it a lot of people which have never found it without a cache.
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Uwe.
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First of all, as exceptions granted by Groundspeak are regarded. Groundspeak owns this site. They are not allowing commercial content within the normal framework not to protect cachers, but mainly for their own profit. That's also why they can make whatever exception they want. You need not like the outcome (I often don't either), but you have to accept it. That's the disadvantage of using a geocaching platform owned by a company.
I think about to leave Groundspeak because of their dictatorial behaviour.
Second, the cache looks like a normal airport cache and I do not think that it needed an exception at all as the cache itself is regarded. It might be a borderline case with respect to what links are allowed, but this appears to be at a level which can already decided by the volunteer reviewers.
Cezanne
In my opinion this cache was published because the airport webside promotes Groundspeak. And that is not correct I think. I am working on a cache to promote the airport opponents and I fear this has no chance to be published "because of the guidelines".
The reviewer told me that he has no possibility to do anything because the permission was granted directly from GS.
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Uwe.
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if anyone choose to live near an airport, they must know there is noise
In this case our house stands here since nearly 30 years and at that time the airport was a grass runway for sport airplanes. Now the house could not be sold because of the noise.
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Uwe.
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Hello to all,
I'm really angry about Groundspeak. They always archive caches which seems to have only a little appearance of commercial even it is only a link to a non commercial organization. But they are granting exceptions agains their own guidelines like a dictator.
In this case ("GC3F4AD - Näher als man denkt") they have granted an exception for the highly controversial Dortmund Airport which is highly controversial even in the Dortmund city council because of the noise pollution of about 100.000 citizens. A link to this cache and two TBs can be found on the webpage <http://www.dortmund-airport.de/geocache.html>. As I have asked GS for the reason for this exception they only answered "As per our guidelines, Groundspeak on occasions makes exceptions for cache page content that may be perceived by some members of the community as 'commercial'. This is our prerogative and in this case, we gave an exception to the owner of this cache". I think that a support for the Dortmund airport by Groundspeak is a intervention in the local politics.
Is there any possibility to get that cache archived?
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Regards from Germany
Uwe.
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I think the whole behaviour of Groundspeak regarding the updates is incredible unprofessional! I hate to be a beta tester while paying for a premium membership. Why are they killing the stable working features for unstable things e.g. the beta map? Why are they wasting space with the new layout? There are lots of ugly things in the new update. It has been better if some REAL users have had a look on the new "features" before publishing it.
I hope that the page is working stable quickly.
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Regards from Germany
Uwe.
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I'm from Germany, too. During the last weeks the connection to Groundspeak gets slower and slower.
Unfortunately I have renewed my PM account tree weeks ago. Why didn't Groundspeak invest the money from the PM accounts in increasing the bandwidth and server capacity? 