+Skate and Jane Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) 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. Because the forums would become clutter with Have you seen my new cache post Edited December 2, 2005 by Moote Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 You can post them here on G:UK If you want I think its more to stop the 1000's of posts it would generate Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Anyway you can always look at the latest new caches in the UK on GC.com Here, and most people only want to know about new placements in their area. Quote Link to comment
alistair_uk Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 What they said 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. Quote Link to comment
+Skate and Jane Posted December 2, 2005 Author Share Posted December 2, 2005 Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 as people have said - starting a thread to promote a new cache would create havoc in the summer. 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 Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) You could always get a friend to start the thread! Edited December 2, 2005 by Moote Quote Link to comment
butty box hunter Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching Congrates on your 100 post Edited December 2, 2005 by butty box hunter Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 as people have said - starting a thread to promote a new cache would create havoc in the summer. 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 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 Quote Link to comment
+The HERB5 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 You could alswys get a friend to start the thread! You couldn't Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 You could alswys get a friend to start the thread! You couldn't No I could not as I have no friends , but the comment was made with reference to the instigator of the thread Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Why not have a pinned thread where you can shamelessly advertise your own cache? Quote Link to comment
+kewfriend Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 or try to get TESCOs to stock them Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again Quote Link to comment
+Nellies Knackers Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Childish sqwabbles!! how dare you? Any more of that sort of talk and I'm telling my mum about you! So ner! Anyway you're just jealous cos my ones better than yours! Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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). Agree! Mrs B Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again 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? Quote Link to comment
+Skate and Jane Posted December 2, 2005 Author Share Posted December 2, 2005 Sorry folks, just can't stop myself starting these threads (the devil made me do it) and thanks to the Butty Box Hunter for the congratulations Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Isn't the forum already cluttered up with congratulations and childish squabbles anyway? Surely we want to read about caching Do you know - I wondered when we would have this discussion/argument again Guess I got involved so that make it an argument Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hoooraay!! An argument!!! Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hoooraay!! An argument!!! Oh no it's not...... Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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!!!! Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hoooraay!! An argument!!! Oh no it's not...... Oooohhhhh yes it is. Sorry, not panto season yet.... Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Sorry, not panto season yet.... Oh yes......... No I mustn't!! Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Sorry, not panto season yet.... Oh yes......... No I mustn't!! Lactodorum, please can you practice forum decorum Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 He's behind you... Quote Link to comment
+Snosrap Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Lactodorum .... forum decorum Brilliant! Quote Link to comment
+Learned Gerbil Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Can we have a bit where we all sing along? Quote Link to comment
The Royles Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Can we have a bit where we all sing along? OK, I wil start... Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam,....... Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 ...Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam!... I'll get me coat... Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 all this sillyness and i nearly missed it! "isn't it awfully nice to have a ......." decorum prevents the rest of this monty python song.... Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment
The Royles Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Half a bee, philosophically, Must ipso facto half not be. But half a bee, has got to be, vis a vis it's entity. D'you see? Quote Link to comment
+Kryten Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 No, my brain hurts Quote Link to comment
+Rose_Thorn Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment
alistair_uk Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 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. That is a bit weird, I feel compelled to go caching in the northwest. I wonder why that could be? Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 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. Matterdale View? Lovely cache that! You can see Latrigg from there.... Quote Link to comment
+Rose_Thorn Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Fancy that eh? Should I Castlehead Cache in that direction next time I'm up in the Lakes? Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 (edited) Oh if Moote had the Power he would stop all this Flipping Cache advertisement Edited December 3, 2005 by Moote Quote Link to comment
+Mr Hedgehog Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Well, you could pull on your Boots, go for a walk Along The Harrow Way, and if stopped you are Just Testing your new GPS Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 (edited) 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.... Note that I leave the responsibility to someone else.... Edited December 3, 2005 by The Golem Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 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.... Note that I leave the responsibility to someone else.... Are you egging Mr Mischeveous on here? Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 (edited) moi? Edited December 3, 2005 by The Golem Quote Link to comment
+Learned Gerbil Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 A dedicated thread would just legitimise the practice and it would be impossible to keep it only in one thread. Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 (edited) 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? Edited December 4, 2005 by The Golem Quote Link to comment
+Sensei TSKC Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Wouldn't you like the opportunity to plug your own threads, Learned Gerbil? Golem, don't you mean cache(s)? Quote Link to comment
+The Golem Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Wouldn't you like the opportunity to plug your own threads, Learned Gerbil? Golem, don't you mean cache(s)? Yes - thanks Sensei! OSS! Quote Link to comment
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