Matmonai

Hi all, I'm new Greece reviewer that has been causing this discussion firestorm. This thread grew to be much larger than this one cache, I would like to post here what I wrote the CO just before publishing GC5FD0N. I have a knack for shooting myself in the foot. So I sincerely hope that sharing this letter with the forum will be seen in the light that I intended it. Dear George & Christina, I was following the discussion on the GS forum, as were other people. There are some good points raised there, but others that I firmly disagree with, as well as some unfortunate misquotes of what I wrote you. Ultimately, as you know, both the consensus and the GS opinion came down to allowing caches with no text in English at all. As such I will follow the vote of the majority and I will publish this and similar caches going forward. I may be misreading, but from the tone of many replies I got the sense that what people *really* want is a local reviewer. I'd like to go on record here that if you or someone else in the community would like to offer yourself up as a reviewer candidate, I would be more than happy to pass the names along to GS for their consideration. That is how I got this "job" myself. However, until you have a local reviewer you're going to mainly be stuck with me, and I suggest we try to make the most of it. Please remember that I'm just a volunteer, and that I spend an hour or so doing this most nights, following a typical 10-hour work day as an analyst in an international hedge fund. Since I obviously can't speak Greek, I will always need at least an adequate English translation of the Greek description in order for me to be able to review the cache. Google-translate can be helpful in some cases, but it generally messes things us with the Geocaching terminology. If the CO really can't write in English, I will ask GS to have a Greek volunteer translator who can help out in such cases. Once we have the English translation in hand, I continue to be of the opinion that including it in the description is the "nice thing to do", and it will almost certainly increase the number of visitors. But it will be optional, and ultimately up to the individual CO. With this I hope we can put all ill-feelings behind us and enjoy this hobby/sport as it was intended, with as little politics as possible. Sincerely, Matmonai