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I learned this one the hard way not long ago. Sad thing is, I'm still getting a handful of "discoveries" even after changing the pictures and ensuring the code is not shown. Either people are finding archived pictures on the site or they've mined the pictures from the past somehow. Further, I stated on each of my trackables that virtual discoveries are not welcome and will be deleted. Each one I've received since then (less than 10 total over the course of a month or so now) I've checked on the user and often they have thousands of TB "finds" with only a handful...usually less than 100 actual GC finds. I agree...what's the point? Just to falsely inflate numbers I guess. No fun in that.

I appreciate the insight from both of you. I was unaware that "virtually" discovering a cache would even be a thought. I'll try to edit the photos accordingly. Either way, I feel it's in very bad taste to do so...ESPECIALLY when they clearly claim to be chasing a challenge as one did in a log I just deleted moments ago. Also, thank you to both of you for taking the time to look into my trackers to see what exactly was going on with them before you replied, that way I knew exactly what to fix.

I've been systematically deleting dozens of "virtual discoveries" of my three trackers since I turned them on. One of them hasn't made it into a cache yet...probably will in the next 24 hours. I'm getting very aggravated with the virtual discoveries as it's nothing more than a picture on the internet and a couple of the logs have clearly mentioned that they're chasing an award of some kind. In my mind, that is clearly cheating. As I understand it, a discovery is when you open a cache, find a tracker that you have no intention of moving along but you want to log it for the owner so they know it is still alive and well. Sitting at your computer, looking at a picture of a tracker from another country is NOT caching. Just my $0.02.