TheZenWizard

A couple of times I have noticed cachers relogging finds under their personal account (caches they might have found and logged under a team account that they now want to separate (possibly because they no longer cache together, for example)). I doubt that's a problem in the greater scheme of things. Of course, if it's a cache I am watching (which is usually because I couldn't find it) suddenly I get notified that someone has found it only to discover that it's a relog of an old cache. Nothing much to do about that - when I know it's a relog, I can ignore it. Vaguely annoying but no biggie. Fortunately I am not watching a huge list. What I don't know is what the implications are for reviewers. Suddenly the logs have a 'found' log as the most recent one which will be later than any DNFs - does that remove it from any list of flagged caches up for review? I guess I don't know what tools are available/used by reviewers, but I can guess this might be an issue in the same way that incorrectly logging a DNF as a find must confuse the reviewing systems. So what ARE the guidelines for relogging caches? And as a bigger question, what flags up a cache as needing review and what (if anything) resets that flag?

Thanks, folks... helpful responses. And thanks for the email, Keystone.

I'm sure this has been mentioned in a whole host of ways, and I agree with the comments about not encouraging folk to go seeking archived caches - but it would be real nice if I could see the caches (on the map) that I had found but have now been archived... it feels like a whole part of my life and my caching history goes missing when someone archives caches - and sometimes a cache owner will repurpose a cache and archive the old ones nearby... I've been looking at some of mine and thinking 'you know, I am sure I found lots down that path' and now they are gone...

This would be great for me too. I do a lot of my caching by bike, so sometimes I miss one by cycling past. It'd be nice to be able to go back and find one I'd missed - at the moment I can't tell if I visited or not. I'm not that OCD that I need to get every single one in my area - but I do like to know I've tried, and at least I have found the location. Perhaps that's not purist caching. Also I use the map to plan a route to pick up caches - and having ones that I've already visited but DNF simply makes that harder. A simple extension of the logic that reads the found flag would work - and an option in configuration to choose to show DNFs or not.