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Skate and Jane

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Why is promoting ones own caches considered as bad form. Those in the know do it in a round about way anyway. It can be helpful to cachers looking for a certain type of cache and would it be any worse than all the congratulation threads. B):huh:B)

Moote

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Why is promoting ones own caches considered as bad form. Those in the know do it in a round about way anyway. It can be helpful to cachers looking for a certain type of cache and would it be any worse than all the congratulation threads.  B)  :huh:  B)

Because the forums would become clutter with Have you seen my new cache post

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alistair_uk

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I think the real problem is that if everyone does it in the summer you will end up with a forum of adverts that you can not find anything useful in, plus we have a whole web site dedicated to location caches to find.

Lactodorum

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What they said :huh:

 

Actually there's nothing in the general forum guidelines to prohibit it but it is etiquette which has developed over the years in this forum.

 

I know there are some instances where people have circumvented this in subtle or not too subtle ways. Some I let go, some I don't but in general you shouldn't expect to be allowed blatant cache plugging here.

purple_pineapple

+purple_pineapple

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as people have said - starting a thread to promote a new cache would create havoc in the summer. :huh:

 

However, personally, I don;t see a problem if someone has asked a specific question in a thread, then referring to one of your caches as an example could be very helpful (as Mark demonstrated earlier in a thread about jazzing up pages).

 

Everything in moderation, as they say B)

davy boy

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as people have said - starting a thread to promote a new cache would create havoc in the summer. B)

 

However, personally, I don;t see a problem if someone has asked a specific question in a thread, then referring to one of your caches as an example could be very helpful (as Mark demonstrated earlier in a thread about jazzing up pages).

 

Everything in moderation, as they say :lol:

B)B):huh: You mean like this post i made on the FTF thread????????

We have a local cacher who leaves really nice wood turnings as ftf prizes in the caches he sets and there is usually a bit of a race to get there first to get the first pick.GCP3YY

Moote

+Moote

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You could alswys get a friend to start the thread!

You couldn't B):huh:B)

No I could not as I have no friends B) , but the comment was made with reference to the instigator of the thread

Lactodorum

Lactodorum

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Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching B)

Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again :huh:B)

The Blorenges

+The Blorenges

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However, personally, I don;t see a problem if someone has asked a specific question in a thread, then referring to one of your caches as an example could be very helpful (as Mark demonstrated earlier in a thread about jazzing up pages).

:huh: Agree! Mrs B B)

Haggis Hunter

+Haggis Hunter

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Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching  B)

Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again :huh:B)

Yep true, some people like congratulation threads (which is very much about geocaching) and others don't, for those that don't there is a Greasemonkey script to get rid of them.

 

As for squabbles, you'll get them everywhere, just because it's online doesn't mean we are immune to it?

Moote

+Moote

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Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching  B)

Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again B)B)

Guess I got involved so that make it an argument :huh:

davy boy

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:D This is not an argument,its a sensible discussion!!!!

We had an arguement on the forums between the usa and the UK last year about this time and that was an arguement!!!! :P:P

The Golem

+The Golem

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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour.

It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,

'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.

Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,

Are moving at a million miles a day,

In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,

Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way...

 

 

sorry :blink:

Rose_Thorn

+Rose_Thorn

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Honestly and Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale, I can't see why anyone would really bother promoting their cache on the forums, but in my Stone View Willow, it doesn't Matterdale View a jot. :D

alistair_uk

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Honestly and Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale, I can't see why anyone would really bother promoting their cache on the forums, but in my Stone View Willow, it doesn't Matterdale View a jot. :ph34r:

That is a bit weird, I feel compelled to go caching in the northwest. I wonder why that could be? :D

The Golem

+The Golem

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Honestly and Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale, I can't see why anyone would really bother promoting their cache on the forums, but in my Stone View Willow, it doesn't Matterdale View a jot. :D

Matterdale View? Lovely cache that! You can see Latrigg from there....

The Golem

+The Golem

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Why doesn't someone bite the bullet and make a single dedicated cache plug thread? I'm sure everyone would love to trumpet about their own caches and it can't be any worse than all those gosh-darned congratulations threads.... :ph34r:

 

Note that I leave the responsibility to someone else.... :D

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Moote

+Moote

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Why doesn't someone bite the bullet and make a single dedicated cache plug thread? I'm sure everyone would love to trumpet about their own caches and it can't be any worse than all those gosh-darned congratulations threads.... :ph34r:

 

Note that I leave the responsibility to someone else.... :D

Are you egging Mr Mischeveous on here?

The Golem

+The Golem

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A dedicated thread would just legitimise the practice and it would be impossible to keep it only in one thread.

I'm sure the other forum users would have something to say about it if the practice strayed out of the thread.

 

Wouldn't you like the opportunity to plug your own caches, Learned Gerbil?

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