Who is that masked man?

[+WatchDog2020]

I’ve noticed that many cache reviewers use a generic account when they publish caches. Does anyone know the true identity of their area reviewer? Also, since you now have to submit more information to be reviewed, doesn’t that take some of the fun out of it for an actively caching reviewer?

[+Moose Mob]

1) I never considered my RoadRunner account as "generic", but I guess it is. I'll try to liven it up a little.

 

2) Yes, I know who my local reviewer is and I am not giving up that secret.

 

3) The slight decrease in fun is offset my the great increase in fun when we get to see a cool cache hit the streets (even if it outside our normal range of caching).

[+Bad_CRC]

Our reviewer isn't exactly hiding behind his pseudo account, he seems to be open about his non-superhero identity. I'd imagine there is a need for some separation though.

 

I think he's posted something to the effect that becoming a reviewer does take some fun out of it, specifically no more FTFs.

 

I'm just glad to have him, I think we have one of the best.

 

Though I really don't understand why TPTB don't have like 20 reviewers per state so one poor guy doesn't have so much work, and reviews would be even quicker (if that's possible)

Edited October 18, 2008 by Bad_CRC

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

I not only know and appreciate my reviewer, but I have cached with him. I have even supped with him and his wife!

[+SuzyJazz]

Yes I know who my reviewer is and he is a very nice person!! I too have cached with my reviewer and its amazing to me that NO he didn't know where every cache was.

 

YES, he is a fantastic cacher, but after approving so many caches he said there is no way he could remember each one. Therefore the fun is still in it!

 

Have you hugged YOUR appprover today?

Edited October 18, 2008 by SuzyJazz

[CoyoteRed]

Most of our previous reviewers had open accounts.

 

At one time, we had an account that was shared by different people. It was like having a reviewer with multiple personalities, because, well, he did.

[+Rev Mike]

I have worked with nine reviewers since my first cache placement.

Of that I only know who three are and have only personally met one of them.

 

But they all do great things for us... So... Many thanks guys and gal!!!

 

- Rev Mike

[Keystone]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

[+WatchDog2020]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

You are a lot shorter and fuzzier then I imagined. The pointed ears make you very attentive

[+Cardinal Red]

Our recent local reviewers are/have been known by many local cachers. They do keep their identity fairly private nationally. If you were a local cacher well known to me, I might share some partial identity information with you. Otherwise, no way.

 

P.S. We even recognize when someone on our review area periphery is pulling our legs (2 or 4).

[+ventura_kids]

I believe the admins and reviewers are outsourced to India.

[Team Misguided]

I'm quite familiar with my local reviewers.

 

It's simply easier to keep the accounts separate. As for pictures, this is one of the better pictures of me, IMNSHO.

 

[+jc_hook]

Since I'm a newbie, and haven't hidden a cache yet, the reviewers are somewhat of a mystery to me. I have emailed one but only got a couple of "form emails" back. I do understand the sacrifice they make for the community here, but it would be nice to see their human side.

[+Super_Nate]

I personally know and have cached with three of my reviewers! They are very nice folks and do a great job in our area.

 

Some reviewers start off by staying under the radar while they get the hang of their work.....but their comes times when a reviewer is ready to greet the world with style....such as the case at this unique event!

[+Sioneva]

At our last huge event, our local area reviewer, Heartland Cacher, staged a "What's my Line" type contest with three local cachers that had at one time or other been suspected of being Heartland Cacher. None of us, including the three local cachers, had any idea who the reviewer /really/ was... so it was a huge surprise when HE stood up at the end!

 

Classic. And a lot of fun.

[+sseegars]

Yes, I know my reviewer and exchange emails with him quite often. However, as has been stated, we did at one time have SC_Reviewer and that account was shared by a few reviewers although some of us know who they were. One of their identities I will keep secret. Some folks get to ruffled over some reviewers.

[Clan Riffster]

My area is blessed with 4 reviewers, and I've cached with all of them. The dedication and commitment demonstrated by this small group astounds me to this day.

Thanx guys, (and gal)!

Edited October 19, 2008 by Clan Riffster

[+themohak]

[what do you mean by reviewers?? I'm relatively new to caching (5 months). does this mean there are area people who review good and bad caches??

[+Sioneva]

[what do you mean by reviewers?? I'm relatively new to caching (5 months). does this mean there are area people who review good and bad caches??

 

Reviewers are them that read new cache listings and publish them, if they are within GC guidelines and specifications.

[+mtn-man]

Yes, someone looks at each cache before it is published on the site.

He gives them a sniff to make sure everything is OK.

 

 

Milkbones go a long way regarding speeding up the review process.

[+tozainamboku]

[what do you mean by reviewers?? I'm relatively new to caching (5 months). does this mean there are area people who review good and bad caches??

If this were the case, one would have no trouble understanding why the reviewers try to stay anonymous.

 

The reviewers review the cache submission for adherence to the guidelines for placing a cache. This means checking that the cache meet the proximity requirements and looking at maps to ensure the cache is not in a forbidden area (such as under a highway bridge). The cache page write up is also reviewed to ensure it isn't commercial or promoting an agenda. Most reviewers will also try to verify the correct cache type is selected. If everthing is in order the review publishes the cache so it appears on the Geocaching.com website. Reviewers used to be called approvers which was probably a more accurate term. Except that people would ask if that meant there are people who approve of cache that is good and disapprove of bad caches.

Edited October 19, 2008 by tozainamboku

[+Zero Gravitas]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

If you insist.

 

[Mr.Yuck]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

If you insist.

 

 

Exactly where in New Zealand was this picture taken? And what's up with all the dogs?

[jholly]

 

And what's up with all the dogs?

 

They chase the bears away.

 

Jim

[+Glenn]

And what's up with all the dogs?

 

You mean you didn't know...

 

[+palmetto]

Most reviewers wear multiple faces:

 

there's the one for the Shining Happy People

 

 

and there's the one for the people who think that checking the "I have read and understood the listing guidelines" box really means, "huh?, what guidelines, I didn't see any guidelines"

 

[Earthdog Patrick]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

 

You're cute. Are you seeing anyone? Do you like Jack Russells?

[+puppymonster]

You're cute. Are you seeing anyone? Do you like Jack Russells?

Sorry Patrick. I know it is hard to tell from photos (guys and gals sometimes just look alike these days), but I am a dude and I am straight.

 

 

Flattery can get your cache that is too close to another one published though, so call me. Maybe we can hang out and cruise the local park for babes.

[Cascade Reviewer]

My favorite picture has already been posted in here, so I'll go with my second favorite:

 

 

Quite handsome, don'tcha think?

[+StarBrand]

I thought we had settled this last year - when I obtained this photo of several of the reviewers with Jeremy.

 

 

Yes I know the local reviewer and who 3 others are. But I'm not telling.......

[+Allanon]

Have you hugged YOUR appprover today?

Not all of them, and not today, but yes, yes I have hugged one of my reviewers before...

[AZcachemeister]

Some do not care if you know their 'real' account name.

Others would rather remain in obscurity...for their own reasons.

Leave them alone and go caching!

[+South Lyon Trekkers]

In Michigan we know our two reviewers. They do have separate accounts since their caching account names are for teams. They are quite active and we seem them at events regularly. Their reviewer accounts are quite helpful too. Our reviewers are -Rusty- and -Tiki- (the hyphens are part of thier caching names.

[+jc_hook]

I see people who KNOW reviewers, not many actual reviewers here in this thread. I understand the need to hide, if they revealed what their Geocaching name people would be emailing them left and right. They need an ID like we need and INBOX. It sorts out the pestering emails about ones cache posting etc. I would still like to see the reviewers post a comment here, (They can keep their masks on).

[+trainlove]

Anyone who caches often, and attends events often will eventually gwt to know the true identity of their reviewers.

I've known the reviewers of the several New England states for years now, all but one who appears to desire to keep their true identity completely confidential. But I have a good idea who that is.

And just recently I met a couple dozen more volunteer reviewers (some for foreign countries) and groundsspeak employees at a great event in Massachusetts.

[+palser]

I personally thank all the reviewers for keeping us sometimes arrogant, egotistical, helpless, clueless, demanding, impatient (did I leave anything out?) hiders in check. And by the way I am speaking for all of us.

 

And as far as hugging Heartland Cacher (our reviewer for the Great State of Nebraska), he's uglier than the back end of Keystone's dog. Sorry Heartland.

 

Dr. P

Edited October 20, 2008 by palser

[Mushtang]

Keystone's dog.

The one wearing the backpack and sunglasses in the picture with Keystone?

 

I'd make a joke that he may have been facing the other way, and it being hard to tell, but I might want to try and have another cache published someday.

[+trainlove]

Please do not start to post names as the following topic started to try out.

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=206323

You only will make the reviewers have to make up new names, not port over existing finds (the few that some do have) to the new name, and just make life miserable for them.

[Skippermark]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

Keystone, you are furrier than I remember...

[Skippermark]

I'm quite familiar with my local reviewers.

 

It's simply easier to keep the accounts separate. As for pictures, this is one of the better pictures of me, IMNSHO.

 

Hey, Team Misguided, I thought that was Keystone. Something fishy..err puppyish is definitely going on here.

[NH Zamboni]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

 

Here's a photo of me after a hard days work.

 

 

Thanks for sharing the secrets of what it takes to be part of the Groundspeak team.

[+Sioneva]

I personally thank all the reviewers for keeping us sometimes arrogant, egotistical, helpless, clueless, demanding, impatient (did I leave anything out?) hiders in check. And by the way I am speaking for all of us.

 

And as far as hugging Heartland Cacher (our reviewer for the Great State of Nebraska), he's uglier than the back end of Keystone's dog. Sorry Heartland.

 

Dr. P

 

I would like to state for the record that I have hugged Heartland Cacher, it was not a hard thing to do, and I enjoyed it.

 

However, I have never hugged, or even met, palser.

[+joefrog]

Have you hugged YOUR appprover today?

Not all of them, and not today, but yes, yes I have hugged one of my reviewers before...

 

A former reviewer tried to kiss me once!

[Skippermark]

The picture for the reviewer in CT shows a toad. I don't think I'd want to be kissed by that!

Edited October 20, 2008 by Skippermark

[+Graculus]

You won't have come across me.... I review a 1/3rd of the UK. I've only been doing this reviewing job for 3 months but when I started, no one told me I had to have a dog! You see, I'm a cat person.

Chris

Graculus

 

[Cascade Reviewer]

Puppymonster loves cats, too!

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Please do not start to post names as the following topic started to try out.

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=206323

You only will make the reviewers have to make up new names, not port over existing finds (the few that some do have) to the new name, and just make life miserable for them.

Strange! I just found, via your link, that now-closed (thankfully!) thread. I find it very bizarre that the OP of that thread even started it, for there are many very good reasons for reviewers -- if they wish to do so -- to keep their reviewer identities separate from their regular everyday geo identities.

 

I have personally never been overly-curious about the identity of reviewers, and, entirely by accident, I have happened to learn over the years the identities of several local reviewers (in one case, a reviewer from a nearby state wrote a private email to me in response to a post I had made on a local forum and disclosed their role/status), and I frankly could care less. And no, I never share that information with anyone, as I see it as rather private and I wish it to remain so.

 

About the only thing that I have ever found somewhat shocking in this realm of reviewer identities was the series of repeated revelations made on this forum over the past couple of years that outed our very own Quiggle as a then-83 year old (now 84 years old) heavily tattooed cigar-smoking grandmother who lives in a remote rural part of Maryland, and who has a long felony record due to having been busted repeatedly by the feds for her string of moonshine stills scattered along the ridgetops along the border between Maryland and West Virginia. Very odd!

[+puppymonster]

Hanging with my pal Bubba.

 

[Keystone]

While I respect other reviewers' choice to do so, I have no reason to hide my identity. Here is what I look like. Perhaps other reviewers will post their pictures, too, so that folks can get to know us better.

Keystone, you are furrier than I remember...

Woof.

[Skippermark]

About the only thing that I have ever found somewhat shocking in this realm of reviewer identities was the series of repeated revelations made on this forum over the past couple of years that outed our very own Quiggle as a then-83 year old (now 84 years old) heavily tattooed cigar-smoking grandmother who lives in a remote rural part of Maryland, and who has a long felony record due to having been busted repeatedly by the feds for her string of moonshine stills scattered along the ridgetops along the border between Maryland and West Virginia. Very odd!

I remember hearing that story too. I was shocked -- and curious -- at the same time.