+w d c Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Just wondered about this. Anyone know if it's possible to find out who the watchers are? Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Just wondered about this. Anyone know if it's possible to find out who the watchers are? only if its a premium member cache. Otherwise no. This explains the occasional practice of putting new caches out as PM - watching who sees it and taking bets on the mad rush to FTF, and then making it open to all-comers! Quote Link to comment
+pklong Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Just wondered about this. Anyone know if it's possible to find out who the watchers are? Nope. It is however possible to view a log of who looks at your cache page when it is premium member only. Premium Member Only caches are evil things however Quote Link to comment
andynelaine Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 You could post a note asking whos watching on the cache page then the watchers will get get a mesage in there email , Then hopfully they will PM you. It could work!! Ok back in me box. Andy Quote Link to comment
+jerryo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 You could post a note asking whos watching on the cache page then the watchers will get get a mesage in there email , Then hopfully they will PM you. It could work!! Ok back in me box. Andy You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've tried it several times and no one has replied once. It is, don't forget, so difficult to send email. I mean, there's the walk to the post office and then the expense of buying a stamp in addition to the difficulty of stringing a sentence together. Quote Link to comment
+SidAndBob Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) I tend to watch from a private bookmark list. So you don't even know how many people are watching your cache. Edited October 23, 2008 by SidAndBob Quote Link to comment
+lodgebarn Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 You could post a note asking whos watching on the cache page then the watchers will get get a mesage in there email , Then hopfully they will PM you. It could work!! Ok back in me box. Andy You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've tried it several times and no one has replied once. It is, don't forget, so difficult to send email. I mean, there's the walk to the post office and then the expense of buying a stamp in addition to the difficulty of stringing a sentence together. Well acting as devils advocate there may be good reasons for not replying. For instance some people do not wish to give out their personal email and it is a little tedious to go through the web form process. Most likely, especially for long term watches, the person doesn't even cache any more or has changed mail address. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've tried it several times and no one has replied once. It is, don't forget, so difficult to send email. I mean, there's the walk to the post office and then the expense of buying a stamp in addition to the difficulty of stringing a sentence together. Yea, like, well, you know, like, innit. Know what I mean, like? Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 only if its a premium member cache. Otherwise no. This explains the occasional practice of putting new caches out as PM - watching who sees it and taking bets on the mad rush to FTF, and then making it open to all-comers! AFAIK you can't see who is "watching" your PMOC. You can see who has called up the cache page, and when, which is at least equally interesting. I tend to watch from a private bookmark list. So you don't even know how many people are watching your cache. Correct... and bookmark lists have "Bulk delete" too. A friend of mine started putting every cache he found on his watchlist. He stopped somewhere around the 1000 mark, but he doesn't want to spend the time clicking through all of them to delete them (especially as he wants to keep 40 or 50). So he has to put up with a volume of self-inflicted spam which defies belief. In fact if Groundspeak allowed non-Premium Members to have a single bookmark list, and pre-populated it with the current contents of their watchlist, they could probably get rid of the watchlist feature altogether. Quote Link to comment
+jerryo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 AFAIK you can't see who is "watching" your PMOC. You can see who has called up the cache page, and when, which is at least equally interesting. That's a very good point. Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 AFAIK you can't see who is "watching" your PMOC. You can see who has called up the cache page, and when, which is at least equally interesting. That's a very good point. How do you see who has called up your cache page please? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Post a note to the cache page ans ask. "Whoever is watching please let me know" maybe some will respond. Quote Link to comment
+wendy0911 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 New to this game and have been tracking many local caches and their owners/finders in an attempt to get a better insight. Now worried that these cache owners will think I am some mad geostalker having visited the cache pages so many times in such a short period of time Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Welcome to the forum, wendy0911 As others have mentioned, the cache owners will only know it's you watching the cache if it happens to be a "Premium Members Only" cache... and there aren't that many of them about. BTW, a "Premium Members Only" cache is a restriction that a PM can choose to put on their cache listing which means that it can only be viewed by you if you are a Premium Member. It doesn't mean any and every cache owned by PM. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I assumed from the post above my request on how, meant that there was any easy way to see who accessed your cache page but without leaving notes. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) As far as I understand it, you can only find that out by making your cache a PM Only cache. Don't ask me exactly how that works because I've never actually owned a PM Only cache, so I don't know how you view who's looking at it (or has looked at it) if you actually have one.... Someone will explain in detail, I'm sure ... maybe sTeamTraen or someone will drop back in here... MrsB Edited October 23, 2008 by The Blorenges Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I assumed from the post above my request on how, meant that there was any easy way to see who accessed your cache page but without leaving notes. there is, but ONLY if the cache is a PM only cache. In that case, as the cache owner, there will be a link called Audit Log on the cache page, which brings up a list of who has viewed your cache. Can only be demonstrated if you set a PM cache. Try it on your next one if you like - you can always set it to non-PM at any time you like! Quote Link to comment
+Rosie's Rangers Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I know a man who can. Quote Link to comment
+jerryo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 To summarise, then, make the cache in question a PM only cache by editing it, and then when you view your own cache listing page, you as the owner get the option to see the audit log (click "Read the audit log" below the cache name on the top left of the page and it gives a list). I have one cache out at the moment and that's PM only. At the moment. I had 40+ others but they went away. Quote Link to comment
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