Comprehensive List of Dead Horses

[+SG-MIN]

This piggybacks on Renegade Knight's thread: Oldest Dead Horse.

 

 

Let this be a comprehensive list of the horses that have been beaten to death here in the forums. I will start with a few of the classics. Feel free to add you own:

• Cache Rating Systems
  
• Lamp Post Micros
  
• Logging your own cache
  

[+Airmapper]

Discussions of Dead horse topics.

 

Edit: Added

Edited December 8, 2006 by Airmapper

[+Airmapper]

Virtual Caches

 

Here

 

Here

[+Shop99er]

Who has the most finds.

 

Is that new coin related to Geocaching

 

Why does that new coin cost so much

[+fizzymagic]

Pictures of dead horses.

 

Other "dead horse" references.

 

They were funny the first time, a couple of years ago.

[+Jumpin' Jack Cache]

 

[+OldNickCov]

This piggybacks on Renegade Knight's thread: Oldest Dead Horse.

 

 

Let this be a comprehensive list of the horses that have been beaten to death here in the forums. I will start with a few of the classics. Feel free to add you own:

• Cache Rating Systems
  
• Lamp Post Micros
  
• Logging your own cache
  

 

[*] Logging or not logging DNFs

[+Woodlit]

permission

[+Windrose]

Logging an event more than once (to count event only caches).

[+Kryten]

Who is watching my cache

[+The Leprechauns]

"It's cruel to leave live hamsters in caches."

[+Maingray]

Please release all those Jeeps, oh you cursed hoarders.

[+briansnat]

"It's cruel to leave live hamsters in caches."

 

I hate that topic. It starts with the assumption that leaving hamsters in caches is inherently cruel.

[+Windrose]

"It's cruel to leave live hamsters in caches."

 

I hate that topic. It starts with the assumption that leaving hamsters in caches is inherently cruel.

 

I love that topic. It's my favorite of all time. And to go off on tangents -

-- Hamsters are food (for some) - no food allowed in caches

-- Best way to keep the Hamster from escaping when you open the cache (i.e. duct tape or staples)

 

 

Windrose

[+briansnat]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

[+Right Wing Wacko]

Please release all those Jeeps, oh you cursed hoarders.

 

Yea, but this shouldn't happen now that we've instituted the DEATH PENALTY for Jeep Hoarding!

[+Windrose]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

 

Yeah but, once a "newbie" hauls the dead horse out, it's all the "oldbies" who jump on and start beating it. Don't get me wrong, I love watching a good dead horse beating. It's one of the most entertaining parts of the forums. Especially since people get so emotional about the subject.

 

Windrose

 

(edited for grammar)

Edited December 8, 2006 by Windrose

[+SG-MIN]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

But utilizing the search function would make a newbie aware of our rotting equine carcasses.

 

I would suggest we add "search function" to our list, but I can't think of anyone who is argues against it.

[+SG-MIN]

Lets not forget.... Travelbug hotel restrictions.

[+The Leprechauns]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

But utilizing the search function would make a newbie aware of our rotting equine carcasses.

 

I would suggest we add "search function" to our list, but I can't think of anyone who is argues against it.

True, but there is the closely related dead horse: do you bump an old thread once you find it with the search engine, or start a new thread with a link back to the old one.

 

You can get your entire Minimum Daily Requirement of Vitriol when someone bumps a three-year old thread to add their two cents, without signalling the fact that it's an old thread.

[+briansnat]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

But utilizing the search function would make a newbie aware of our rotting equine carcasses.

 

I would suggest we add "search function" to our list, but I can't think of anyone who is argues against it.

 

And if they bring up the old topic to comment on it, they get bashed for unearthing an old dead horse.

 

Yeah but, once a "newbie" hauls the dead horse out, it's all the "oldbies" who jump on and start beating it.

 

So if a newb brings up an old topic, only other newbs should be allowed to comment on it and veteran geocachers with years of collective experience should remain silent?

[+SG-MIN]

What is interesteing to note is that most of these dead horse topic usually illicit several pages of comments. In other words we regulars love to jump in and start beating just as much as anyone.

[+Windrose]

So if a newb brings up an old topic, only other newbs should be allowed to comment on it and veteran geocachers with years of collective experience should remain silent?

 

Not at all. I was just commenting that it's the veteran cachers who do the beating. I agree with you that there are no dead horses to newbies (or at least they - being new - don't realize the horse is dead). Sorry if I offended. It was all in fun, didn't mean to ruffle any feathers or fur, or twist any panties.

 

Windrose

[+sbell111]

To be serious now, no topics are dead horses for people who are new to this board. Its usually why they come up again and again. For those who are tired of them, nobody is forcing you to read them or respond.

But utilizing the search function would make a newbie aware of our rotting equine carcasses.

 

I would suggest we add "search function" to our list, but I can't think of anyone who is argues against it.

True, but there is the closely related dead horse: do you bump an old thread once you find it with the search engine, or start a new thread with a link back to the old one.

 

You can get your entire Minimum Daily Requirement of Vitriol when someone bumps a three-year old thread to add their two cents, without signalling the fact that it's an old thread.

Linking the old one runs the risk of someone reading that old thread and adding a comment to it. Then you have two, active dead horses.

 

As a related though, what about people who neither use the search function or actually look on the first page of topics to see if someone is currently discussing the issue?

[+The Leprechauns]

If sbell111 were here, he would probably make his dead horse rant about the limitations on the "ignore posts by this user" feature.

[+ZSandmann]

How about "Why did virtuals and locationless, web cams, etc. go away"

 

That ones as dead as a doornail. And I here those are pretty dead.

[+Renegade Knight]

Are posts featuring dead horses, dead horses yet?

[GNCFCCB]

Being newer to this wonderful fun recreatoinal activity, I have tried to use the search funtion and have had awful luck. I have tried to search several topics and ended up with error notices or do not find. So I go reading page after page to find my answer. This I do not have time to do many time's so it is easyer to just post what I want to know. Sorry, but the search key is broken for me for some reason. Nothing I have searched for can be found. I even tried looking for a topic I saw on and came up with an error. Has anyone else had this problem? I also agree for us new people "Dead Horses" are quiet alive.

[+team5150]

How about the "Who has the most finds?" discussions. That always seems to start a good old fashioned dead horse beating.

[+Kiamichi Muskrat]

Smilies eating popcorn.

 

[+Markwell]

How about the "Who has the most finds?" discussions. That always seems to start a good old fashioned dead horse beating.

 

How about recursive links that post to the top of the thread where someone else said the same thing?

[+SG-MIN]

If you could do a search for smilies eating popcorn you would immedietly know which thread contained horse carcasses.

[+Snoogans]

If you could do a search for smilies eating popcorn

 

You can, just spell "drama" and put one of these [:] in front and behind.

[+SG-MIN]

 

it is interessting what a search for the popcorn man brings up. Almost all those threads are multiple pages, and many of them drag on for several pages.

[+Vanillahip]

This isn't quite a dead horse subject, but I always enjoy watching who is the first person to say:

 

"In before the lock!"

 

at the first sign of a dead-horse a-thon.

[robertlipe]

From the tech forums, it's:

 

"What GPS is the best?" (almost never is there a qualifier for best at what.)

 

"What GPS should I buy?" (almost never is there enough info to actually give a good recommendation)

 

"What GPS would you buy if money were no object?" ("All of them. Duh.")

[+The Cheeseheads]

If you could do a search for smilies eating popcorn

 

You can, just spell "drama" and put one of these [:] in front and behind.

Or, you could just search for .

[+Confucius' Cat]

Well, actually.....

Geocaching is kind of a limited scope for discussion topics...

So, actually... technically... haven't we just about covered it a thousand times or more?

 

Simplification: GC forum is a dead horse

Edited December 9, 2006 by Confucius' Cat

[+nekom]

Pie: Yea or Nay?

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Pie: Yea or Nay?

That's "neigh," and dead horses don't do it.

[Cape Cod Cacher]

"How do I use my GPS?"

 

Demographics Questions; age, gender, military, scouts, etc. Ad Nauseum

 

I could think of a few more jockey-whipped subjects, but I don't want a headache

[+kc8bdr]

Can I use my GPS on an airplane?

Edited December 9, 2006 by kc8bdr

[+SG-MIN]

and as we were just reminded.... premium member only caches.

[+JoGPS]

Pie: Yea or Nay?

 

Comprehensive List of Dead Horses, Those topics which have been beaten to death

 

Don’t think pie should be here, I love Pieeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Joe

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Two or three more topics to add, and I apologize in advance if someone has already mentioned anyer of these alrady; I did not see them in my scan of the thread:

• premium-member only caches and why people place them
  
• caches located at spots which are gay male cruising areas
  
• claiming finds for caches not really found
  

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Two or three more topics to add, and I apologize in advance if someone has already mentioned anyer of these alrady; I did not see them in my scan of the thread:

People not taking the time to read the whole thread before posting a comment. Good one.

[+SG-MIN]

Two or three more topics to add, and I apologize in advance if someone has already mentioned anyer of these alrady; I did not see them in my scan of the thread:

People not taking the time to read the whole thread before posting a comment. Good one.

Hey, give him a break. My post about premium members was a whole 2 posts above his. That is an honest mistake.

[Cape Cod Cacher]

Two or three more topics to add, and I apologize in advance if someone has already mentioned anyer of these alrady; I did not see them in my scan of the thread:

People not taking the time to read the whole thread before posting a comment. Good one.

Hey, give him a break. My post about premium members was a whole 2 posts above his. That is an honest mistake.

QUOTE(nonaeroterraqueous @ Dec 10 2006, 10:15 AM)

QUOTE(Vinny & Sue Team @ Dec 10 2006, 07:59 AM)

 

Two or three more topics to add, and I apologize in advance if someone has already mentioned anyer of these alrady; I did not see them in my scan of the thread:

 

People not taking the time to read the whole thread before posting a comment. Good one.

 

Hey, give him a break. My post about premium members was a whole 2 posts above his. That is an honest mistake.

 

 

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People doing MAJOR quotes that are NOT necessary

[+The Leprechauns]

People who break the quotey thingy.

[+SG-MIN]

this thread is quickly becoming pet peeves rather than dead horse beatings.