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I just did some quick math on CCCA's stats... their first cache found was 5/25/2001, that was 1650 days ago as of today. With 12197 finds between then and now, that averages out to be 7.39 caches found EVERY DAY for the last 4 years, 6 months, and 5 days.

 

Wow!

I'm willing to bet that the last time that man has seen a woman's privates was on the way out at birth.

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AuntieWeasel

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:unsure: try this site pretty cool and it gets updated once a week i believe :D

Holy cow! Rhode Island is so small, there are only 13 of us on the leaderboard! One of us has been laid up for six weeks, one moved away and only Cool Librarian in over 1k.

 

Move to sunny Rhode Island, where you can kick our tails without half trying!

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That is a team, and the leader is a woman, so I'd bet you are wrong.  :unsure:  :D

It's actually just the woman and not a team. Her husband goes along with her once in awhile but it's mainly just her. She usually goes caching with other cachers and I've gone with her a few times myself. Let me also add that she's VERY energetic. :D

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There's another list of the top cachers that I haven't seen mentioned here yet...

 

World Geocaching Leaders

 

This is probably my favorite as it includes lots of stats including your average number of finds for the last 30 days and since you started caching. It also lets you create graphs of your finds and projected finds.

 

It only lists those with over 2000 finds though.

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dogbreathcanada

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There's another list of the top cachers that I haven't seen mentioned here yet...

 

World Geocaching Leaders

I think this clearly answers the question put in this thread.

 

Apparently having lots of finds makes you a "leader."

Fizzy, you too can make this list. Here's how.

That partially explains how CCCooperAgency has 12000 finds, considering she logged 15 of them on that single cache. Reprehensible behaviour, imo. That certainly doesn't make her a "leader" (of any kind) in our recreational activity.

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Sagefox

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why doesn't the cache owner delete the multiple logs? they may all think that's cute, but I don't.

I want to volunteer to help delete the 376 armchair finds in that other topic. This one though, I suspect, has an interesting story behind it. But I do expect that the 15 finds will be deleted once the point has been made and they get around to it.

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tozainamboku

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why doesn't the cache owner delete the multiple logs?  they may all think that's cute, but I don't.

I was detained by the business owner at this cache while he called the police. I did not log 15 found it logs. I just logged one SBA log - after which the cache owner went and got permission to hide the cache. She did feel bad about my experience and has offered to take me out for lunch - much better than offering 15 finds.

 

I do think some people are too quick to judge when they see someone with a very high cache count claim finds this way. As I've stated before, those who have an idealized view that the find count means something other than a count of how many found logs one has are living in a dream world. Once you accept this fact then you don't get upset over who's "winning" on the leader board. I will concede, that one should not log bogus finds just so you can inflate your standing. But if someone does this, and the cache owner lets them, there's not much one can do other than whine about in the forums :P

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fluffy&itchy

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There's another list of the top cachers that I haven't seen mentioned here yet...

 

World Geocaching Leaders

I think this clearly answers the question put in this thread.

 

Apparently having lots of finds makes you a "leader."

Fizzy, you too can make this list. Here's how.

That partially explains how CCCooperAgency has 12000 finds, considering she logged 15 of them on that single cache. Reprehensible behaviour, imo. That certainly doesn't make her a "leader" (of any kind) in our recreational activity.

OK, I've sat back long enough and watched threads pertaining to the multiple smiley posting of the "Homework" cache in Bristol,VA

 

I try to refrain from posting anything in the forums because it always turns into a flame-fest. But it seems I haven't learned my lesson, so here goes...

 

I was the other person with CCCooper when the now famous (or should I say infamous) incident happened at the afore mentioned cache. I was the one who got my license run for warrants, my car run to see if it was stolen, was told I was a liar, was told I was trespassing, and that geocaching was a scam, and I would be arrested if I tried to take anything.

 

CCCA stayed in the car, as I ASKED HER TO. I asked her to let me handle the situation since I have a law enforcement background and thought I could difuse the situation and we could be on our way.

 

After explaining extensively that I never intended to take anything and trying to explain geocaching for the umpteenth time, I finally just got fed up and told the cops/rent-a-cop that they either needed to arrest us or let us be on our way. I had tried in vain to explain why we were there. Gave them a brochure that explained geocaching, showed them the cache page on my laptop, showed them our GPSr's.

 

I offered to take them back to where the cache was and show it to them. They wouldn't go and accused me again of trying to steal something from the property.

 

I offered to tell them where the cache was and they could go get it themselves. They said no.

 

Nothing was working.

 

We also tried to get in touch with the cache owner but could only get voicemail.

 

I might add that at no time during our detainment did either side ever get upset or irrate. Everything was talked about in a professional manner on both sides. No voices were raised. It was just that they kept telling us we were liars and insisting we were there under false pretenses.

 

They finally let us go and told us to never come back there again. I assured them Bristol, VA was the farthest place I would ever want to be again.

 

The next night, the cache owner finally called me and said they had just gotten my voicemail from the night before. They appologized for us having been detained and explained the they new a sargeant on the Bristol, VA police force who was a geocacher. If we had been able to get in touch with them the night before, we could have gotten the officers to call the sergeant and things may have gone differently, but they didn't so that was that. The cache owner also told me the local cops had been educated about geocaching but the seemed to conviently forget sometimes.

 

We chalked it up to another caching adventure and went on about our caching business.

 

As we were talking to the cache owner, he said, because we had had so much trouble being stopped and question on this one, we could log the cache as many times as we wanted too. We said we should log it 1 time for each stage of the incident. The cache owner agreed and we had a good laugh about it.

 

When we logged in on the cache page, we both (CCCA and I) set out to log a smiley for every step of the incident that happened that night in a way as to tell the story of what happened.

 

The multiple logs were supposed to be all in good fun and it was done with the COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CACHE OWNER! (and the reviewer after we told him the cache owner said we could)

 

Then a local cacher went into the cache page and started posting notes and making fun of the multiple logs. That's when the reviewer locked the cache.

 

We fully intended to go back later and make all the "finds" into "notes" after everyone around here had gotten a laugh out of it.

 

Now that the cache is locked, we can not get back in to change the logs.

 

With all that said, this is just another example of some not knowing the whole story about an incident, and then making suppositions about what the truth was.

 

For all you CCCA bashers out there, shame on you. She works very hard at the sport of caching. She not only is good at finding but she gives back to the sport by placing hides, sponsoring events, and she spends countless hours helping other geocachers when they ask for help. I don't think I have ever met a more selfless person when it come to helping others in this game.

 

She caches nearly everyday. That is how she has gotten the number of finds she has. Anyone who knows her, knows this. Caching is her obsession and she's good at it.

 

Lastly, (and I'm sure you are all glad of that) I would just challenge all of you to make sure you have all your facts straight before you start flaming people and accusing them of things not in evidence, for doing something you have no first hand knowledge about.

 

Bottom line is, the extra logs were supposed to be a joke, all done in good fun, to make light of what could have potenially been a very unwelcome night in jail.

 

AND IT WAS DONE WITH THE CACHE OWNERS PERMISSION!

 

Let the flames begin.......

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robert

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The multiple logs were supposed to be all in good fun and it was done with the COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CACHE OWNER! (and the reviewer after we told him the cache owner said we could)

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With all that said, this is just another example of some not knowing the whole story about an incident, and then making suppositions about what the truth was.

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For all you CCCA bashers out there, shame on you. She works very hard at the sport of caching. She not only is good at finding but she gives back to the sport by placing hides, sponsoring events, and she spends countless hours helping other geocachers when they ask for help. I don't think I have ever met a more selfless person when it come to helping others in this game.

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She caches nearly everyday. That is how she has gotten the number of finds she has. Anyone who knows her, knows this. Caching is her obsession and she's good at it.

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Lastly,  (and I'm sure you are all glad of that) I would just challenge all of you to make sure you have all your facts straight before you start flaming people  and accusing them of things not in evidence, for doing something you have no first hand knowledge about.

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Bottom line is, the extra logs were supposed to be a joke, all done in good fun, to make light of what could have potenially been a very unwelcome night in jail.

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AND IT WAS DONE WITH THE CACHE OWNERS PERMISSION!

 

Not only that but the cache owner has posted in another spin-off topic without touching the subject of his (?) cache. That says a lot. <_<

 

I am willing to bet that most, if not all, of the CCCA bashers have never met her. I just wish people would stop bashing her, particularly by those who haven't met her. :mad:

 

Thanks for setting the record straight.

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briansnat

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I am willing to bet that most, if not all, of the CCCA bashers have never met her. I just wish people would stop bashing her, particularly by those who haven't met her.

 

I don't think they are bashing her. By all acounts she is a wonderful person. They are being critical of her practices.

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robert

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Meh. Maybe so. But maybe not.

 

While I don't agree with the logging of a cache 15 times (I follow the "didn't sign it, don't log it" rule for myself), it doesn't affect me one iota so I pay it no attention.

 

Anyhow, this isn't the topic, so I won't discuss it here anymore.

 

Have a good day everyone.

 

<_< (hey I just noticed that looks kind of like my avatar! :mad:)

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Team Cotati

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Save yourself the trouble of compiling a list yourself:

 

http://zinnware.com/HighAdv/Geocaching/most_caches_found.php

 

:wacko:

i have asked politely to have my name removed from this list.

 

it has not been.

 

i do not know what my next step will be.

In the past, when presented with such challenges, I have considered to end it all by jumping. Then I realized that doing so would make just too too many people that I do not give a carp about exceedingly happy. I therefore have not jumped.

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Quest Master

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We fully intended to go back later and make all the "finds" into "notes" after everyone around here had gotten a laugh out of it.

 

Now that the cache is locked, we can not get back in to change the logs.

That's because you didn't try.

 

I'm pretty sure that you CAN edit, delete, and change the log type of logs on locked caches. I just tried it to confirm that this is the case. You just can't post any new ones.

 

And why post a big pile of found logs in the first place when a single DNF, note, or SBA would have been more appropriate and better info for the next person? I don't get it.

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fluffy&itchy

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We fully intended to go back later and make all the "finds" into "notes" after everyone around here had gotten a laugh out of it.

 

Now that the cache is locked, we can not get back in to change the logs.

That's because you didn't try.

 

I'm pretty sure that you CAN edit, delete, and change the log type of logs on locked caches. I just tried it to confirm that this is the case. You just can't post any new ones.

 

And why post a big pile of found logs in the first place when a single DNF, note, or SBA would have been more appropriate and better info for the next person? I don't get it.

First of all, thank you for educating me as to how to get the smilies changed to notes. I tried to go in and change them before and it kept telling me I couldn't post anything since the cache was locked. Evidently I was punching the wrong button.

 

I answer to you question about "why post that many finds and not just a dnf or sba"...

 

Obviuosly you didn't read my explaination completely.

 

WE LOGGED THE MULTIPLE FINDS BECAUSE THE OWNER SAID WE COULD AND BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WAY TO MAKE LIGHT OF US ALMOST HAVING THE SPEND THE NIGHT IN JAIL!!!

 

WHAT PART OF THAT DOES EVERYONE NOT GET???

 

All of the "founds" have been changed to notes EXCEPT 1. You grumpy grouch geo-police are not going to ruin all my fun. If you don't like the 1 find I logged WITH THE OWNERS PERMISSION, then you can just lump it. I have better things to do than to cow-tow to a bunch of busy bodies that seem to have nothing better to do than throw off on others who are just having a little fun.

 

The people on these forums need to spend more time caching and less time trying to policeforce policy on players in a GAME that is all done during one's own free time and with NO FINANCIAL GAIN.

 

Jeez, get out in the woods and walk off some of that puffed up steam that seems to permeate these forums.

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briansnat

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WE LOGGED THE MULTIPLE FINDS BECAUSE THE OWNER SAID WE COULD AND BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WAY TO MAKE LIGHT OF US ALMOST HAVING THE SPEND THE NIGHT IN JAIL!!!

 

WHAT PART OF THAT DOES EVERYONE NOT GET???

 

I think everyone got that the owner said you could. I don't see where you were forced to do it though. Hey if you kept going you could have been the #1 cacher in the world, provided your fingers didn't get too tired. You seem awfully defensive about this.

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Quiggle

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From the Forum Guidelines at the top of every forum page:

 

Some things to keep in mind when posting:

 

Respect: Respect the guidelines for forum usage, and site usage. Respect Groundspeak, its employees, volunteers, yourself, fellow community members, and guests on these boards. Whether a community member has one post or 5,000 posts, they deserve the same respect.

 

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fluffy&itchy

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WE LOGGED THE MULTIPLE FINDS BECAUSE THE OWNER SAID WE COULD AND BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WAY TO MAKE LIGHT OF US ALMOST HAVING THE SPEND THE NIGHT IN JAIL!!!

 

WHAT PART OF THAT DOES EVERYONE NOT GET???

 

I think we got that the owner said you could. Doesn't mean you have to. Hey if you kept going you could have been #1 cacher in the world, provided your fingers didn't get too tired.

Well, no I guess we didn't HAVE TO. However, the owner actually ENCOURAGED US TO DO IT. But as I have THOROUGHLY explained in previouse posts, we did it to make light of a potentially tense situation. THE OWNER WAS ALL FOR IT!

 

No, I don't think I would want the honor of being the world's top geocacher even if I had the finger stamina to post enough logs to do so. She gets flammed too much for just participating. I might have to whack someone if I got accused of all the things she gets flamed for.

 

I have a measly 1200+ REAL, VARIFIABLE FINDS! I am way down on the totem pole when it comes to smiley points. I spend my own time and money finding caches and placing caches for others to enjoy.

 

I'll play the GAME in whatever way I see fit until someone starts paying/re-pembersing me to do so.

 

It's really none of anybody's business.

 

If you guys/gals are purists then please, by all means, play the GAME as you see fit. However, let me remind all of you, purists or not, IT'S A FREAKIN' GAME, PLAYED BY AMATUERS FOR NO FINANCIAL GAIN!!

 

When you get right down to it, there really are no cheaters/log padders, purists or not. Reason being, there is no way to oversee all the people who are geocaching.

 

I know plenty of people who are in the top number finds lists that have posted "found" logs to caches I know for a fact they have never even seen. But I'm not the geo-police and I could care less what they do and how they do it.

 

This is supposed to be a fun, entertining GAME that gets people off the couch and out into nature.

 

I have more caches to find. I'm not interested in wasting my time being the geo-police

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fluffy&itchy

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OMG! Did I happen to offend anyone? Geez, I'm sorry. I wouldn't want anyone to get their fragile feelings tromped on.

 

I guess the next time someone questions my methods, I should just lay down and let them pile on the crap.

 

Yeah, right. And it's supposed to be a Happy Holiday and not a Merry Christmas!

 

NOT!

 

MERRY CHRISYTMAS!!!!!!!

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Keystone

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Merry Chrisytmas to you, too. :(

 

The original question was answered in the first five posts, with links to the two most used statistics sites.

 

Some tangential discussions followed, and everyone has had a chance to say their piece. Debating log practices on a single cache is well past the scope of "where can I find a list of geocachers ranked by number of finds?"

 

I am closing this thread and going Christmas Holiday Shopping. :wacko:

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