Castle Mischief

Yes, special equipment and ALL that. Hider should be obligated to place caches that absolutely everybody can find. So caches that require a boat, climbing gear, QR Reader and of course that can't be reached from a wheel chair should be eliminated in your opinion Sorry, I left out the "NOT" that I just edited back in. I agree with you and the point you just made.

Aesthetics aside, the new icons are a little hard on the eyes and appear to be slightly out of focus or low-res.

Yes, special equipment and ALL that. Hider should NOT be obligated to place caches that absolutely everybody can find. EDIT: Added the "NOT". Oooooops.

I've mentioned this several times over several years. Still no joy. Two years is several?

This was not a material factor at the time of the decision to grandfather virtuals. The main reason was the flood of virtual submissions that didn't meet the guidelines, the inordinate time it took to process virtual submissions, and the morale factor for lackeys and site volunteers. I found a post I made in late 2003, reporting that I received hate mail / flame messages for more than a third of all virtual submissions. If I'm forced to review virtuals again, I'll be in the line of reviewers who walk out the door. I am sure there are plenty of other folks who would love a shot at being a reviewer. Maybe some new blood is what this needs. ... Wow! I hope you don't have plannes to list a new cache any time soon. I suspect your "usualy within 3 days" just went up to 15 days. If (and I don't think they are) the reviewers would be that petty, then indeed, we do need fresh blood.

I'd like to see the further development of any additional Souvenirs of any kind. I thought it was a nice idea with potential.

I don't see virts coming back, but... I thought the vote up/down system that was being used in challenges to be pretty effective in keeping the dead animal carcass listings to a minimum.

Thoughts? I think that you can't ask us not to debate and ask us for our thoughts in the same post. I think that this is code for, 'only post if you agree with me'. Or just a quick way of saying - be polite and cordial. Not use words such as "ludicrous" and "horrible idea" - but that would be asking too much of people on here to actually be polite and respectful now wouldn't it? Thank you for politely and cordially suggesting that I should be forced to stop volunteering 20 hours per week of my time solely because I've been doing so for ten years. I wonder if there is a way to ignore forum posts? Speaking of which, what about reviewers who are also forum moderators? Most reviewers avoid the forums entirely; for many it's because of threads like this one. Just to be clear, you're advocating for the ouster of the few who post regularly in here in an effort to be helpful. Which brings up a whole other topic- the decline in moderator/reviewer participation on the forums and the question that I've never seen asked- should reviewers even be forum moderators? But voting? No.

I thought the GS Reviewers had taken over for GSA...?

I love that virt!

No, I think it is a flat out matter of permission. And a cache owner should should be required to respond to gc.com when it comes into question. Take a look at all the anti FTF threads or the anti power trail or how geocaching has gotten worse since the good old days, we are causing more damage to this game here than is caused by people actually placing and/or finding caches. This forum is like a bunch of cannibals eating up their own. I think you vastly overestimate this forum's ability to have any affect the activity of geocaching, the players or the decisions of Groundspeak.

There are any number of reviewers that still read some portion of the forums. I think it's fear of being (mis)quoted seven years from now.

Good grief. Let's all start a list of specific things that aren't in the guidelines. I'll kick off the list with: *Do not place your cache container inside the cloaca of a living alligator

Really? Are the yellow face icons racist too? How about the red face icon? And are the green face icons somehow offensive to anyone? And isn't the violin associated with the music of the Imperialist West? Sorry that you have never studied history and culture. Try it sometime. Maybe they'll put up a swastika icon next? Good grief. I'm the biggest bleeding heart liberal for like 60 miles and I think you're taking this too far.

After going back and looking at the new icons again, I have to admit that even to my sub-40-yr-old eyes they grey ones are fuzzy against the off-white of the forum background. I can imagine they must be really hard to read for some of you old coots.

Exactly this. I don't need bureaucrats telling me when I found a cache. Ditto. We don't need to give Clan Riffster another reason to complain about bureaucrats.

Geocache placements do not damage, deface or destroy public or private property.Caches are placed so that the surrounding environment, whether natural or human-made, is safe from intentional or unintentional harm. Property must not be damaged or altered to provide a hiding place, clue, or means of logging a find. Again nails do not damage or kill trees, if you like I can provide many examples of this. That's your interpretation of a rule it does not specifically state no nails in trees. Destruction and defacement is in the eye of the tree owner. If you don't own the tree you don't get to make that call. And then there's this in the quote above as well:

And with Challenges... And with Wherigos... ...and with Souvenirs...

Why wait, if you feel it should be reported go for it. If not, move on with your life. Why be cowardly about it? That's hardly cowardly, more like practical. I have caches that I've hidden that I don't want somebody trashing because I posted a Needs Archived note on the cache page. It's that simple.

Man, when I'm out in the woods looking for ammo boxes this is going to completely change... nothing. EDIT: However, the lack of communication that we as paying customers receive is troubling. I've said before- the usefulness of the weekly newsletter is being wasted on advertising features that most of us already know about. The recent announcement about the phasing out of Challenges has been one of the very few exceptions.

Sometimes an alternate solution is to send the Reviewer a private message and avoid the potential drama of posting the NA log. Sometimes local cachers can get excited over what they view as "cache policing" and when they see some undefined number of NA logs from a single individual.

It's really up to you and the cache owner. All other answers can be ignored.

Funny so is the Original stash tribute Plaque cache but they didn't archive that after so many times it's been muggled and still listing Travelbugs that are lost forever. p.s Wouldn't a throw down be considered without permission by owner. Seems the CO gave it's blessing on that one. Exactly, everyone wants to scream that the cache should be treated just like any other cache until it actually is. Scores of caches are replaced by a third party with the blessing of the cache owner, but when it happens in this case, they still cry foul. Treating it like any other cache would also mean archiving it when the owner stopped performing maintenance and became unresponsive to reviewer inquiries- which has happened a few times now.

As I recall, you said that last time as well... before the CO put down his own replacement. Admittedly, I've been ignoring the drama for weeks now, but wasn't the last replacement not made by the CO but by some other group?

Religion and agendas related to it are expressed very heavily all over the place. For the most part, earth-caches push a strong agenda of evolution, age of the earth (its only 6,000 years old, not millions or billions), and other false agendas. So even with everyone's "anti-agenda" stance that they want to believe they are supporting, they are indeed pushing an agenda. I don't believe in radio waves therefore all caches are pushing an agenda.