nonaeroterraqueous
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What's the general area?
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DO NOT USE STICKERS! They suck. They get gummy and glue the pages of the log together. One of the most horrible things you can do to a cache is to use stickers in the logbook.
Oh, come on. Really?
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However, the main question still remains unanswered; to what extent are the cache owners entitled to remove or censor logs and to dictate the content of the log?
If the log is bogus, it can be deleted.
If the log contains spoilers, the owner can ask to have it modified, or choose to encrypt it.
If the log is profane, abusive, contains spam (advertizing), is off-topic or promotes anything illegal, then it can be deleted.
I think that notes can be deleted if the logs start turning into something like this forum. The logs should not be used as a discussion thread on the subject of the cache.
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For me English is a second language so I was especially intrigued by this thread. A bunch of new idioms like "dog bomb" and "brown word"
Sorry about this comment but your discussion made me think of what could happen with logs of those cachers who know English POOrly.Good point. I know what you're thinking:
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I think that the French cache owner would have deleted the log with such a formulation as well and probably even more than with a straight formulation.
I'm sure he would have, but it would have made for a more interesting read in the time leading up to the deletion. If anyone happens to step in the stuff at one of my caches, I should certainly hope to find something cleverly written, like this:
Its not everyday that someone gets to step into a stinky turd pumped out of a dog's rectum. What was the texture? Like play doh, or hard and lumpy? Was it dark brown or have a lighter color? Was there small items mixed in? Was it just dropped in a standard single line, or did the dog pile it upwards in a fanciful design? What was your reaction? Disbelief? Shock? Anger? Depression? Did you finally accept it? Or did you whack your shoe on a tree or rock to get it off?
You caught me sipping a beverage on that one. I just managed not to blow it out my nose. Thanks for the laugh. -
I've mentioned stepping in the stuff in a log, before, but it wasn't dog stuff, if you get my drift. I'm just wondering why you chose the most uncreative way to describe it. You could have called it a smelly brown curd squeezed from a canine anus. You could have called it the post-digestive byproduct of a quadruped's alimentary canal. The mushy brown substance most closely resembling the ideas set forth by (your choice politician here).
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Expecting some one to have the same reaction to words is expecting them to live by your moral code.
If it's a moral code worth having, then it's one worth expecting of everyone. Besides, what's the virtue in having a double standard, anyway?
It is funny how it is a "right" when it is something a person are for, but an "entitlement" when it is something a person is against.
A right is something a person should be permitted to do, such as the right to pursue happiness, or, in your example, guns. Entitlement is what people expect others to do for them, such as healthcare. For example, you have a right to form your own opinion, but you are not entitled to having anyone give a rip about it.
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I recently logged a NM on a cache that I didn't find, because I had logged multiple previous attempts over multiple years, and I had contacted the owner and confirmed that the owner had not visited the cache in the five years since it was placed. The first and only finds were by a single group one month after placement. Even if the cache is really there and in pristine condition, I wanted to post a reminder to the owner to try to re-visit the site sometime, as required by the guidelines. I also figured it would help prospective cachers be aware of the lack of maintenance in the meantime. Granted, the cache might really be there, but it still needs a maintenance visit.
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You can always go back and upload pictures at your own convenience. Visit your log whenever you're ready, and upload an image by clicking the proper icon:
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Why? Why, oh why did I not buy Tupperware stock two years ago??
Don't cry so soon. There's still time to invest in Altoids.
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My first thought was that it actually fit the flippant attitude of the cache name. On its own, though, I'd say you should leave the log. It's not much of a spoiler, and it does wonders to clarify the reputation of the one who wrote it.
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What happens if someone drops the capstone and it breaks?
That sounds like a cache maintenance issue. Just buy a new one. Normally, aren't those things cemented in place, anyway? It's possible that the CO provided the capstone where it was originally missing. I think it's a perfectly fine hide. Might make one, myself, someday.
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I only wish I'd done so earlier so the CO would either reply or the reviewers would archive it so I could take a new one up there tomorrow.
If the location is so inconvenient that you need to be able to place the cache when you happen to already be there, then it might be the sort of placement you're not inclined to maintain. Maybe you're different. I don't know. The rule of thumb, as best I can tell, is that if a person places a cache in a location that they did not visit for the express purpose of placing a cache (they already happened to be going there for other reasons, like a vacation), then they aren't likely to make a trip out there just to maintain it, either.
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Frankly, I don't think a girlfriend really qualifies as a maintenence plan. By this time, next year, you could have found another love interest. It's not like she's family. Hey, I want to place a cache in Michigan; anyone want to be my girlfriend for a couple of weeks, until I can get this cache published?
Now, a mother, that's a committed individual. If she can spend eighteen years of her life maintaining the cache owner, then I'll give her credit for maintaining the cache.
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I was a little numbers-happy for the first 400, or so. Thought I could create a zone around me with only smiley faces. By 800 I was slowing down. Once I reached around a thousand finds I got burned out on the hobby and thought I'd never come back.
Now I take them a little at a time. I don't aim to have any area cleared, though I do want to have an attempt recorded on every cache near me that I can reasonably get to. I'm more concerned with having some kind of log, not necessarily a find, on all of the nearest caches. I try to save a few for the future. Having one to look forward to is better than a thousand that I've already done.
Placing signature stickers used to be top priority. Now, I only use them on good clean dry logs in the best caches.
Still looking for a good trade whenever available; that much hasn't changed at all.
Placing caches still makes me nervous. I still lose sleep for a few days after each placement. I wish I had more time and money to place caches in the best spots.
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To the cache owner, the Hotel is a nice place for travel bugs and potential movers of travel bugs to meet in one convenient place.
To the travel bug owners it can be a place where bugs languish for long periods of time, imprisoned by cache owners who like to keep their hotel perpetually filled, sometimes employing certain unofficial rules to persuade finders to not take more than a certain number, or not take one without leaving one, etc. We sometimes call them "travel bug prisons."
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If you can't find it folks log a DNF ( or don't log anything ) and move on.
I disagree. There are so many cache listings out there that used to have frequent finds, that now get nothing but DNFs. The owners are either gone or don't care. Adding yet another DNF doesn't help anything anymore, and not logging anything only creates the illusion that nothing is necessarily wrong, which makes it that much harder to justify an NA in the future. Granted, an NA is not to be used in place of just any DNF, but it is certainly useful on certain caches, where it's painfully obvious that both the cache and the owner are gone.
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Searching by name is through, I think, what you're calling the message feature, where you click on "find another player" on your Account Details page.
There is no easy way to search by date of profile creation, but if you can find someone whose account was created on the same day, you can bring up their profile. The last number in the URL of their profile is sequential to profile creation, so if you add one or subtract one, then you'll get whatever profile was created just before or just after. After browsing through a few, you'll get sick of the whole thing and give up.
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Looks a little like a DoS attack, doesn't it?
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If it were a cougar, I kinda doubt that a pocket knife would do much good, especially considering retrieval and getting it into play.
Actually, it is possible to fight off a cougar with a pocket knife. I read a news story of a man, a few years ago, who was attacked by one and successfully killed it with just a pocket knife. He later led the rangers back to its carcass. It's not my preferred defense, but it has worked. Cougars have been warded off successfully with some unlikely objects, and there has been a case of someone fighting off one with no weapon. I think, considering cat psychology, the ones who get eaten are the ones who run. You kind of have to play mind games with the creature.
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Sometimes the owners die. Sometimes they lose heart after a few bad interactions with other cachers. Sometimes they play too hard and get burned-out. Sometimes life gets in the way. Emotional problems...stuff.
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The friendly thing to do is ask.
No, the friendly thing to do is work together. The polite thing to do might be to ask, but I've never been good at being polite to unfriendly people.
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If I unexpectedly encounter another cacher while searching for a geocache then I consider us jointly hunting and if either of us makes the find they should alert the other.
You got it. This is a friendly hobby, not a competitive sport.
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I like to see something new every now and then, so I appreciate the effort to mix it up a little and change the appearance. Overall, I like it, but the front page has too much space devoted to a picture with no links. All links have migrated to the outer edges of the page. Link availability is important to anyone unfamiliar with the site, because if I've never been here before then I don't know what's important. There's no visual suggestion as to where I ought to go from here. The "Learn more about geocaching and how you can join the adventure" link is a good one to have in the middle, but it got a weak presentation, not having any clickable image associated with it to help draw one's attention to it. I think the previous appearance was probably the better of the two, objectively speaking.
Sorry about this comment but your discussion made me think of what could happen with logs of those cachers who know English POOrly.
I don't recommend the "dog bomb" euphemism when logging in foreign countries.
You caught me sipping a beverage on that one. I just managed not to blow it out my nose. Thanks for the laugh.
The weirdest thing
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Sorry. I was thinking too far ahead. I assumed you figured out why you got the email, but I should have considered that you wouldn't call it weird if you had. Once it was published and you put it on your watchlist, you were going to get an email for any activity that happened with it, even though the listing got un-published. It's just a loophole that you discovered. It's like when people get FTF for a cache because they were watching a travel bug that got put into the cache before it was published. The act of watching the listing or the bug gives them notice of the associated cache prior to publication.