+alienbogey Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt= and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's. I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5? Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt= and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's. I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5? Sure why not. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 According to the found logs you've gotten so far, it looks okay to me. Quote Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt= and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's. I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5? A couple of things to consider: some folks haven't had their "boxes" expanding sufficiently and any rating is a range. I still giggle at an incident where a group of cachers, all of whom had finds into the 4 digits, couldn't find a large ammo can even though several of them where within mere inches several times. The only reason I can think of is they weren't used to that type of hide. Their "box" wasn't large enough and/or they didn't think outside it. Ratings are very subjective. I rarely think of any cache in terms of "this is a 2.5 difficutly. It should only be this hard." It simply doesn't work that way. For me, a 2.5 could be completed trivially or it could stump me time after time. Of course, a 1/1 should be really easy and a 5/5 should be really, really hard. But even there you have a range. I think your 2.5 sounds just about right. It's stumping a few folks and impressed a high numbers guy. I'd say leave it. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Reads like 2.5 or 3 is right. Also reads like you've hidden a very nice cache. Congratulations. I think you'd be fine either way. Leave it alone, or bump it to 3. Quote Link to comment
+Rockin Roddy Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Looks good to me, wish I were out your way!! Quote Link to comment
+alienbogey Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Thanks for the feedbck, I'll leave it as is. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Thanks for the feedbck, I'll leave it as is. I'd do that for now. If the DNFs continue, then maybe a 3 might be in order as long as some people are finding it. If nobody is finding it, then probably higher. Quote Link to comment
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