How Do You Become A Reviewer

[+Relic Hounds]

I was just wondering how you become a reviewer

[nobby.nobbs]

get a lobatomy and then an unhealthy desire to recieve huge amounts of abusive posts!!!!

 

they have my sympathy and gratitude for doing a job i would dislike having to do.

 

cheers to them all.

[+Marky]

I was just wondering how you become a reviewer

 

I am fairly certain that everybody who has asked this question has never become a reviewer.

 

--Marky

[+BlueDeuce]

Here's a link to the last poor soul who asked this question.

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=126361

[+briansnat]

Here's the serious answer. If you are an experienced geocacher with a good reputation in your local geocaching community (which often includes a record of working with the local authorities to promote the sport), you might be approached and asked if there is a need in your area. The smart people say no .

[+robert]

I always heard it was something like this:

 

[+Renegade Knight]

In order to be approached you have to have the kind of curb appeal that's going to stand out to the people who's opinion matters. Both TPTB who would ask directly and those the TPTB would ask for input.

[+Moose Mob]

I seem to recall something a bit different.

 

[+KolarBear]

You're chosen at birth...

 

if you come out with a GPS in hand

 

then they just know

[+clearpath]

Lots of brown nosing ...

[+Milbank]

I was just wondering how you become a reviewer

 

The first step is to paypal $100 to the address in my profile.

[+Milbank]

Of coarse I'm just kidding.

[+Team Cotati]

course

[+Deliveryguy428]

It is very simple all you must do is drink out of this nice glass full of kool-aid

[+Katydid & Miles Stone]

When you submit a cache, add this to the reviewers note:

 

I've noticed you're taking much longer to approve caches than in the past. I've got plenty of free time on my hands and am certain I can do a better job than you. Who do I talk to about getting your reviewer's job?

[+Milbank]

When you submit a cache, add this to the reviewers note:

 

I've noticed you're taking much longer to approve caches than in the past. I've got plenty of free time on my hands and am certain I can do a better job than you. Who do I talk to about getting your reviewer's job?

 

[+Allen_L]

I seem to recall something a bit different.

 

I thought this was after you became a reviewer.

[+Robespierre]

Ask again after 2 years AND 500+ finds, successful results with 3 event caches, and spending $4000 at the company store.

 

edit: want a pickle?

Edited March 23, 2006 by Robespierre

[Keystone]

The REAL answer is to eat lots of pickles, and never turn down a pickle when it is offered to you. Mmmmm, pickles.

 

The "stock" answer that Signal the Frog tells me to give out is the one I wrote in the FAQ thread over in the "Getting Started" forum:

 

Geocaching.com asks geocachers to become volunteer cache reviewers based on an identified need in the local area. Qualifications include experience level (most volunteers have hidden dozens of caches and found hundreds or thousands), reputation within the local geocaching community, involvement with any local geocaching organizations, demonstrated ability to work with land managers, communications skills, and knowledge of the geocache listing guidelines.

 

The best thing you can do if you'd like to become a cache reviewer is to work on each of the qualifications described above. Then, when you least expect it, you might be asked!

 

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

["Paws"itraction]

The REAL answer is to eat lots of pickles, and never turn down a pickle when it is offered to you. Mmmmm, pickles.

<snippage>

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Pickles + science =

 

All Hail The Glowing Pickle!

Edited March 23, 2006 by PAWSitraction

[+JMBella]

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Oh man.. nobody ever invites me to the good parties.

[+JMBella]

The REAL answer is to eat lots of pickles, and never turn down a pickle when it is offered to you. Mmmmm, pickles.

<snippage>

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Pickles + science =

 

All Hail The Glowing Pickle!

 

DON'T LOOK AT IT!

[Keystone]

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Oh man.. nobody ever invites me to the good parties.

When should we tell him that his dog has been the New York cache reviewer for the past few years?

[+wimseyguy]

Lots of brown nosing ...

... and never forget the only difference between brown nosing and a** kissing is depth perception.

[+JMBella]

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Oh man.. nobody ever invites me to the good parties.

When should we tell him that his dog has been the New York cache reviewer for the past few years?

 

I KNEW it! Now I have to deal with NY Admin yelling "scratch my belly, scratch my belly or your cache won't get approved!"

[Keystone]

Lots of brown nosing ...

... and never forget the only difference between brown nosing and a** kissing is depth perception.

Practical tip: If you can see Mopar's feet, you've gone too far.

[+Right Wing Wacko]

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Fortunatly for me, I already participate in another conspiracy

 

-- Proud member of "That Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"

[Team Misguided]

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

 

Oh man.. nobody ever invites me to the good parties.

When should we tell him that his dog has been the New York cache reviewer for the past few years?

 

When we tell CR about Sissy.

[+clearpath]

Lots of brown nosing ...

... and never forget the only difference between brown nosing and a** kissing is depth perception.

Practical tip: If you can see Mopar's feet, you've gone too far.

Now thats a mental picture I could do without ...

[+Robespierre]

Perhaps one serious note about YOU. This was not about you. No one stopped to consider that this occasion to have a little fun might not be understood by the OP (you). So, please realize, we have been having fun, and this thread just happened to be the occasion. Cache on, and welcome.

[+Moose Mob]

Perhaps one serious note about YOU. This was not about you. No one stopped to consider that this occasion to have a little fun might not be understood by the OP (you). So, please realize, we have been having fun, and this thread just happened to be the occasion. Cache on, and welcome.

Thanks for the reality check Robespierre.

 

To answer the question... when an area is determined to need a reviewer, TPTB look around for someone that is respected within thier community (Keystone was grandfathered in), and has shown good caching knowledge and skills. The victim candidates are typically unaware they are being probed watched.

[+clearpath]

Perhaps one serious note about YOU. This was not about you. No one stopped to consider that this occasion to have a little fun might not be understood by the OP (you). So, please realize, we have been having fun, and this thread just happened to be the occasion. Cache on, and welcome.

Thanks for the reality check Robespierre.

 

To answer the question... when an area is determined to need a reviewer, TPTB look around for someone that is respected within thier community (Keystone was grandfathered in), and has shown good caching knowledge and skills. The victim candidates are typically unaware they are being probed watched.

 

Victim ... probed ... where do I sign-up?

[+nicolo]

course

 

<doh, replied to wrong post!>

Edited March 23, 2006 by nicolo

[+nicolo]

It is very simple all you must do is drink out of this nice glass full of kool-aid

... and wear Nike running shoes!

[+Ambrosia]

The REAL answer is to eat lots of pickles, and never turn down a pickle when it is offered to you. Mmmmm, pickles.

 

The "stock" answer that Signal the Frog tells me to give out is the one I wrote in the FAQ thread over in the "Getting Started" forum:

 

Geocaching.com asks geocachers to become volunteer cache reviewers based on an identified need in the local area. Qualifications include experience level (most volunteers have hidden dozens of caches and found hundreds or thousands), reputation within the local geocaching community, involvement with any local geocaching organizations, demonstrated ability to work with land managers, communications skills, and knowledge of the geocache listing guidelines.

 

The best thing you can do if you'd like to become a cache reviewer is to work on each of the qualifications described above. Then, when you least expect it, you might be asked!

 

Finally, and this almost goes without saying, but you must be comfortable with the idea of participating in a conspiracy to achieve world domination through subversive religion masquerading as science.

Oh, I am so there! And I even have the bumper sticker to prove it!

 

 

When do I start?

[+Deliveryguy428]

Don't forget to turn your head and cough too..

 

In all seriousness Moose Mob is right, you do not pick to be a reviewer or vol they pick you because they feel you deomonstrate great values as a cacher in your community.

 

Now if you don't have thick skin you can not be one, period, cause trust me, people wil and do complain about their local reivewers all the time, and sometimes they might be complaning to their reviewer face to face at an event and don't even know it.

[+The Leprechauns]

Now if you don't have thick skin you can not be one, period, cause trust me, people wil and do complain about their local reivewers all the time, and sometimes they might be complaning to their reviewer face to face at an event and don't even know it.

... Or even when they do know it.

 

It is difficult for me to enjoy event caches like I used to before I acquired a second identity. I used to go to a lot of events but I am much more selective now, for this reason and others.

[+Deliveryguy428]

It is a thankless job at times and we as a community really need to stop and think all the stuff a reviewer has to deal with the next time our cacher is taking longer then you want to be approved...cause I know there are a few the second after they hit submit they except the cache to be listed.

[+Ambrosia]

I my reviewers.

 

But just hearing the few things that I have about how tough the job is in all parts of a reviewer's life, I'd have to be bribed very heavily to become one of them.

[+Tsmola]

I was just wondering how you become a reviewer

 

I am fairly certain that everybody who has asked this question has never become a reviewer.

 

--Marky

 

Really?

 

Can I be a reviewer?

 

There, now I am guaranteed not to be asked to be one. Thank god because I don't want the job, it frankly doesn't sound too appealing when you read about everything they have to do, which makes me wonder what possesses people to want to become one.

[+Moose Mob]

<snip>

I don't want the job

<snip>

 

Well now that you put it that way, what are you doing 3-4 hrs a day, and during your lunch break at work?

 

edit: speelin

Edited March 23, 2006 by Moose Mob