MoonPie Mafia
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The Additional Logging Requirements and Commercial material were added post-publication.
Sorry, I did not see your post. I am very confident with Groundspeak reviewers. I do know that they are voulnteers but are asked to be reviewers, so it is an honor to be one.
Thank you for you volunteer work here in the forums and as a reviewer. You do a great job.
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Why was the cache published in the first place if it did not meet guidelines or did the CO change/alter the listing after it was published.
I am guessing the latter.
I just read you forum signature. I don't work on Wall Street or consider my uniform dressing in drag, but I am expected to act accordingly even when picking up trash in the parking lot where I work. I'm sure all of this has brought negative attention to the bike shop.
And if it makes a difference I do have a geocache placement at my place of employment but it is not advertisement.
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This may exlpain the dislike of premium members and reviewers.
http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4N7DV_the-bike-trail-not-taken
That cache had a short, weird history. If we could see the deleted posts, it would be even weirder.
It's nice to meet a CO at a cache. It's unusual to go to a cache and end up in a "spirited debate" with the CO about Groundspeak's rules.
Someone needs to chill - that's a statement of concern for another human being. As another comment said, making a relaxing game stressful can lead to health issues including heart attacks.
It sounds like from the reviewers note that the cache page was an exchange of words that needed deleted.
But this part here
Finally, I have deleted the commercial link to the bike rental shop. Links like that violate the Commercial Cache Guidelines.Why was the cache published in the first place if it did not meet guidelines or did the CO change/alter the listing after it was published. From reading the cache page and reviewers notes I would guess that the CO owns the bike shop and was using their geocache as advertisement for their business. There is more to the story but I just don't understand the part about premium members and Groundspeak making money unless they wanted some free advertisement, and the part about premium members makes no sense to me. Is that because I am a basic member?
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This may exlpain the dislike of premium members and reviewers.
http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4N7DV_the-bike-trail-not-taken
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Guys....let's all agree to not feed the troll. Let him starve....
Does the OP me Welfare and nor Warfare?
Hit little red X and go stand in the cheese line and wait for a handout. 
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I have taken a hiatus from geocaching and am now back. Out of the 7 I ground today 5 of them had the little iPhone scan barcode things on or by what the cache was hidden in. I don't know if it was a coincidence or is something else is at hand. I don't have an I phone to scan it with to find out.
If you don't have a phone to scan it then don't pay any attention to it.
If you do have a phone to scan it then don't pay any attention to it.
There is another geocaching site that has QR codes that can be scanned by their GPS units and you don't need a smartphone. That M word game is a parasite and can be found in geocaches without the owner knowing about them.
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I understand people's frustration. I get frustrated too, sometimes. But there was a time not too far in the past where there were a surprising (at least to me) amount of lackeys who had never cached before. Now, with Groundspeak promoting a geocaching atmosphere within the company, lackeys are regularly getting out and caching. They may not be up to some people's caching standards yet, but they're getting there over time.
I personally am happy to see this happening, and I think that it's more productive to encourage this trend rather than get on lackey's cases because they still haven't met some arbitrary standard. I've been around plenty lackeys while caching or just standing around talking about caching, and they are infectious. A lot of them are like little kids with their enthusiasm towards the sport.
Now I know that a lot of this push from Groundspeak to have their lackeys out caching is to show the caching public that the employees of Groundspeak are more involved, and for the employees to understand geocaching more as a whole so they can do a better job. I know that the owners of Groundspeak love geocaching, and are happy to have their employees love the sport as well.
But some of the comments in threads lately, disparaging lackey cache logs and find counts have disappointed me. I'd hate to know that lackeys may be seeing these comments, after all this work and fun that they've been going through, and feel like nothing they do will ever be good enough for some.
We should be uplifting, not putting down each other.
I got to meet two Groundspeak lackeys at a mega event in Kentucky. Both were very much the avid geocachers and working hard at the event. That is where we got the coordinates for the lab caches. I just wanted to say thanks to Lackey Larry and Ranger Fox for their hard work.
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I gave the intro app a try but soon deleted it, it is the kiddy pool geocaches and did not interest me. About the confirmed email, anyone consider that new members may not want contacted and advised? What kind of advise do you give someone that stomped down a flower bed and logged NM or NA on a geocache they could not find? Also do I really want advertisers contacting me? Maybe the do, I should check my spam folder more often.
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Funny, I just posted elsewhere about how I suspected this might be a cause of a problem I've noticed since getting back into geocaching ...travelbugs are almost never in caches that show them containing a TB. Right or wrong, I attributed it to someone hearing about GC, downloading the app, finding a few caches and picking up a TB as a souvenir along the way, then forgetting about GC altogether.
The problem is that it creates temporary players with no investment in the game who don't understand the rules or anything about the GC community. It allows new cachers to bypass everything they need to know about how to enjoy and contribute to the game.
TB's have all but disappeared from the game. Three years ago when another company attempted to compete with Groundspeak with their own site made up mostly of gc geocaches and no way to log TB's. It has had to have an effect on geocaching and TB's. The other site has smartphone apps too, so don't let all of the blame fall on gc. Gc has real reviewers and moderators, the othe site don't, so big difference but same game same contents.
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Moon Pies and Venom.
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Perhaps we might want to dial down the rhetoric and joshing here -- from what I've seen, OP does not appear to be of voting age yet and might be taking some of this personally, even if not intended as such.
Minors. Our services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use our services. If you are under the age of 18 but at least 13, you may only use our services under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by this Agreement.
Hopefully Floridabiker1's parent/guardian is aware of his/her geocaching activities and can guide and explain the responsibilities of cache ownership.
It is nice to see that FB1 has disabled the cache. Saves future geocachers from wasting time and gas money.
I viewed the users profile and thought it was a supervised account, guess I was wrong.
I only have two listings on this account and was questioned both times I submitted a cache for review if I could maintain it by the local reviewers. I had to explain to the reviewer that I am not new to geocaching but this is my new account that I use. We also have a family account that agreed to supervise this account. As another member stated in this thread, I may not be old enough to vote yet but I am old enough to drive a car.
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Try google and enter ashton mehrle and warhammer 40k. Sure he is selling.
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Yes he is selling, but I'm not buying it. Just google ashton mehrle and warhammer 40k or keep guessing.
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First off I think some are being so critical because you don't have any experience in geocaching. Or at least that's how it appears. You are either a sock puppet account, or you really don't have experience.
You have to remember that geocaches are owned by the geocachers, not the owners of the website. That means adding any games or competition is unfair to those who have caches but don't want to be part of it-they either have to let if happen, or take down the listing.
As for your second idea, let's see if I have this correct. You find a cache. You leave a token to say you where there. Then I find a cache, and I leave my own and take yours to show I was the last person there. These tokens sound kinda like Path Tags.
And there's a much easier way to do it-instead of spending money on these tokens that you have to leave in every cache(Some people have thousands of finds. That's a lot of tokens) the CO could place a notebook in the cache, and have the people finding it, sign it. The last person to sign it is the last to find it. We could even create some form of system to "log" them online. Maybe even include options to let the cache owner know it may be missing, or in need of fixing-or maintenance if you will. It's really a great idea...to bad nobody around here has thought of that before.
:ph34r:Oh no T.D.M.22, you used the p-word in the frog's forum!
To the OP. What you are suggesting we are already doing on other geocaching sites. We have QR codes and other means to verify that you have visited the cache. There are more than a few ways to do this. It's just that you have never found or hidden a geocache or posted in the forums but claim that geocaching is the greatest game on earth. That is just a little too hard to believe. I could contact you through the email address that you provided but you seem too new to geocaching for me to introduce you to my gamer clan. A7X.
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No, I DO NOT use the Intro app. I use a GPS and computer. I just thought that with over 400 replies this thread is getting a bit messy.
Well, there is nothing wrong if you do. We gave it a try and it is good for a beginner that wants to try out geocaching before investing in a GPS unit.
It may look messy here to you, but things are fine here. That is why we have the off-topic and Platinum members only forums, sorry I intruded.
Carry on. 
You just HAD to mention the Platinum forums, didn't you!?
Really. What's next, our secret handshake?
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I want to hide a few hundred film canisters 0.1 mile apart with a 1/1 D/T rating and list them as puzzle caches that form the shape of a Moon Pie with wings and call it the when Moon Pie's Fly power trail.
Hit little red X and go stand in the cheese line and wait for a handout. 
Geocaching's Class Warfare
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Here is a new word to add to your geocaching class warfare.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geocide
I think you already hit the nuke button.