SimonG

Icenians make an important point - you've got to be careful adopting a cache, since it might still be listed on other sites. However, I've had a look and this one doesn't appear to be. You might want to contact gunther - though since he restored his profile yesterday, I deduce that he's reading this thread (hi gunther!), and he hasn't objected yet... What's your favourite thing?

As I recall, it used to be possible, but they changed it. I think you can use UBB codes, but not HTML. What's your favourite thing?

I'm not a big fan of virtuals. You've spent the day fighting off armed pygmies and canoeing up lava floes to read the numbers shaved into the belly of a Tasmanian swamp yak, you've plugged them into Fermat's Last Theorum to calculate the final coords, then you turn up at the coords and say "Right, well, here I am. Hmm. I suppose I'll go home now." Seems like a bit of an anticlimax, y'know? I enjoy caching for the adventure, but you need the endgame. Hunting a virtual is like watching a great movie but walking out before the final scene. What's your favourite thing?

I agree with what others have written. I prefer multis, and even with the final coords available I would probably resist the temptation to cheat (well... maybe), but knowing that the option was there would take half the fun away. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Gaz, Suni, Jack & Kashi:I'm now trying to picture everyone there. Someone walked past kinda grinning in a sort of loon like manner, but I just assumed they were from Tipton. (They are all like that in Tipton - it's the water) Simon was that you?? - I'm now convinced it was! The loon part sounds like me, but grinning at that time in the morning? No chance! What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by TheCat:TheCat here I am M1CJW. You should see if you can swap with the guy who's got M1AOW. What's your favourite thing?

Try GPX Spinner - it can turn GPX files into html pages. What's your favourite thing?

At Streetmap.co.uk you can enter a street name or postcode and it will give you a lat/long. Any good? What's your favourite thing?

My century's still a long way off, but I already have plans for my hundredth - I'm going to leave my GPSr at home. Being a fairly incompetent cacher at the best of times, I figure that will make things interesting... What's your favourite thing?

Open to abuse as it is, I think owners need the ability to delete logs, in case loggers reveal stuff that you're not meant to know pre-hunt. Perhaps you should have to give a reason when you delete a log, and the author then gets sent an email that goes something like this: quote:The owner of cache Foobar has deleted your log for the following reason: "You gave away the final location of the multi and compared my mother unfavourably to a gorilla." If you think it should be reinstated, click here, and TPTB will look into it. What's your favourite thing?

I know you've got bigger bugs to squash at the minute Jeremy, but here's another one to add to the end of the list. If you enter an invalid username in the 'Or, Caches found by username' box on the Hide & Seek a Cache page, then click Find, you get a big unfriendly .NET error. Sorry if this has already been mentioned - I couldn't find it anywhere. What's your favourite thing?

When I'm caching alone (which is most of the time), I go for the highest-rated caches I can find, because I enjoy the challenge. I wouldn't even consider doing a 1/1 (other than in certain exceptional circumstances). When I'm with friends, though, the difficulty isn't really an issue, since I'm doing it for the company rather than the challege. In that case I would tend to avoid very high-rated caches, since my companions would hold me back and hamper my enjoyment (I don't have very adventurous friends). What's your favourite thing?

Wow - I tried 'reincarnation', which I thought would stump it, but it got it after question 29! Particularly impressive, since some of my answers, with hindsight, were rather misleading. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Wood Smoke:I didn't like the old one, and I like this one less :-( It's going to improve. Jeremy had to rush the new page out quickly to stop the site going offline like it did last week. There are about fifteen million threads about it in the General/Geocaching.com fora. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by lathama:is it possible to modify it for persnal use, (ie) somepeople seem to like all caches together, others (myself included) find it easier to search them with the ones found at the top instead of having to look for a little [X] to see if i have been there or not. Just tick the 'Exclude hidden/found items from results' box before clicking on 'seek >'. What's your favourite thing?

I couldn't vote because you didn't put my answer as one of the options. I wanted to vote for 'I never vote in polls, I just complain that my answer wasn't given as one of the options'. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp:Actually it's cruelty to Pike. Their last meal will unexpectedly turn out to be a mouthful of man made fibres and filler. I don't understand. Are you suggesting they're not real bears? What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Iwuzere:Not trolling, but seriously and objectively just wondering if the game will end up with a limited lifespan and technology will make it obsolete? No. There are plenty of ways to make cache hunts challenging, even with accurate coords. Take a look at some of the puzzle/multi caches around. What's your favourite thing?

Cool! You might want to post about this in the UK forum too - a lot of UK cachers don't read the General forum. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by el10t:I don't think we will be seeing Mk4 bears. Apparently we will! What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Lassitude:- what should it be called? Not Important to me. How about Not Important To Some? I prefer the acronym. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Teasel:If you have PHP (or CGI), you could also provide your users a form to email you from. Yes, that's probably the best way, but I didn't want to scare people by mentioning PHP again! What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Paul G0TLG:Do we trust each other enough not to register with multiple addresses, especially if membership is free? 'Fraid not. What's your favourite thing?

Nothing is changing with respect to virtual caches, but locationless are getting their own section, as detailed here. You're right, it was supposed to be happening by the end of May. Evidently things are behind schedule. What's your favourite thing?

quote:Originally posted by Paul G0TLG:As an aside - make it easy for visitors to your site to contact you by giving an e-mail address! But bear in mind that by publishing your email address, you can expect Evil Harvester Thingies to stick you on a million spam lists. There are ways you can obfuscate your address to make it harder for harvester robots to read - this site will convert it to HTML character codes, which will look identical to visitors but will (hopefully) elude the robots. Or there's this site, which produces a bit of javascript to display your address. That method is just about guaranteed harvester proof, but it does mean anyone with javascript disabled can't email you. What's your favourite thing?