K-9Patrol Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. Knowing the thoroughness of the members, I'm sure it has, but I'll post anyway. I've started a small personal geocoin collection that will eventually grow. I buy new unactivated coins, activate them, then keep them for myself. I have no intention of sending them into the wild as they are for my own personal enjoyment. Also, I still want to activate them so they show up in my inventory. The problem will be that as my collection grows, I will have to sift through many personal coins, while logging a find on a cache page, to locate and drop someone else's coin. Can a feature be installed that will enable a member to checkmark personal coins so that they will still show up as coins owned and in your inventory, but will not show up in the drop-down box to log/drop coins in a cache? Just a suggestion. Thanks. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Most of us create an unpublished cache and place our private coins in there. This eliminates them from the list and gives a nice clean place to "virtually" store them. Link to comment
+Allanon Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 If, or until, your suggestion is implemented, there are a couple other options for you. 1. "drop" them into an archived cache you own. 2. create a new cache, but do not submit it for publication. Use that as a place to store them. Link to comment
Keystone Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 A third option, and one which won't ever cause confusion for your volunteer cache reviewer like an unpublished or archived cache might, is to use the "mark missing" option on each trackable to place them in an unknown location. You can grab them back if you ever want to send a coin traveling, and folks can still discover your trackable. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 A third option, and one which won't ever cause confusion for your volunteer cache reviewer like an unpublished or archived cache might, is to use the "mark missing" option on each trackable to place them in an unknown location. You can grab them back if you ever want to send a coin traveling, and folks can still discover your trackable. That is a neat idea. Didn't realize that would work. Better than an unpublished cache. Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 (edited) A third option, and one which won't ever cause confusion for your volunteer cache reviewer like an unpublished or archived cache might, is to use the "mark missing" option on each trackable to place them in an unknown location. You can grab them back if you ever want to send a coin traveling, and folks can still discover your trackable. That is a neat idea. Didn't realize that would work. Better than an unpublished cache. I thought about using that option, but I already have more than 25 geocoins that I released over the past couple of years that have actually come up missing. Sooner or later, a visitor to the cache the coin is supposed to be in makes a note on the cache page that they looked for my coin and it wasn't there. Then either the cache visitor or someone else (often Keystone ) uses the "mark missing" option to move the coin to an "unknown location." If I used this "mark missing" option for my non-traveling coins, it would be tough to tell which are my non-travelers and which are bona fide missing. For this reason, I decided to create an unpublished cache to stash my non-traveling coins in. I don't have any archived caches, so I couldn't just use one of those as my coin stash. Instead, I created an unpublished cache, and used the same coordinates as one of my active caches. That way, hopefully, the unpublished cache won't cause any confusion or conflicts with potential new caches. --Larry Edited March 29, 2009 by larryc43230 Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 If I used this "mark missing" option for my non-traveling coins, it would be tough to tell which are my non-travelers and which are bona fide missing. Just edit the name. Using the Unknown Location option doesn't add logs or faux mileage Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 (edited) Just edit the name. Using the Unknown Location option doesn't add logs or faux mileage Do you mean edit the name of the coin? I already do that for my non-travelers (I add an "NT" on the end for non-traveling), but if I kept them in the "unknown location" slot, they would still be intermingled with my really-missing coins. Personally, I prefer to keep them separate. --Larry Edit to add: I realize I could add a prefix to my non-travelers that would cause them to be sorted to either the top or bottom of the list; I still prefer to just keep them in separate places. Edited March 29, 2009 by larryc43230 Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Hopefully one day they'll have something that is more than just a catchall for maintaining/listing travelers on your profile. Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Hopefully one day they'll have something that is more than just a catchall for maintaining/listing travelers on your profile. I will definitely vote for that! --Larry Link to comment
K-9Patrol Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thank you all for some great suggestions. I never thought about any of these. It seems that I have so much to learn about this site and all it's features. One question, though. How do I create an unpublished cache? I've never hidden a cache, myself, but I've visited the online form and know the procedure. Is it as simple as unchecking the box next to this paragraph, "Yes, this listing is active (For new listings, if you want to work on this listing before it is reviewed, uncheck this box. Reviewers will only see the listing in the queue when it is checked.)" Or is there something else to it? Thanks again. Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thank you all for some great suggestions. I never thought about any of these. It seems that I have so much to learn about this site and all it's features. One question, though. How do I create an unpublished cache? I've never hidden a cache, myself, but I've visited the online form and know the procedure. Is it as simple as unchecking the box next to this paragraph, "Yes, this listing is active (For new listings, if you want to work on this listing before it is reviewed, uncheck this box. Reviewers will only see the listing in the queue when it is checked.)" Or is there something else to it? Thanks again. That's pretty much it (others will chime in, hopefully, with other hints and tips). You'll need to choose coordinates for your unpublished cache that don't conflict with possible future caches. Otherwise, when someone goes to publish their own, real, cache, the reviewer could see your unpublished cache as a conflict in terms of the minimum-distance-between-caches guideline. Maybe the middle of a big lake near you. I have three published caches of my own, so I just used the coordinates of one of my actual caches. That should avoid any potential conflicts. --Larry Link to comment
+markandsandy Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thank you all for some great suggestions. I never thought about any of these. It seems that I have so much to learn about this site and all it's features. One question, though. How do I create an unpublished cache? I've never hidden a cache, myself, but I've visited the online form and know the procedure. Is it as simple as unchecking the box next to this paragraph, "Yes, this listing is active (For new listings, if you want to work on this listing before it is reviewed, uncheck this box. Reviewers will only see the listing in the queue when it is checked.)" Or is there something else to it? Thanks again. That's pretty much it (others will chime in, hopefully, with other hints and tips). You'll need to choose coordinates for your unpublished cache that don't conflict with possible future caches. Otherwise, when someone goes to publish their own, real, cache, the reviewer could see your unpublished cache as a conflict in terms of the minimum-distance-between-caches guideline. Maybe the middle of a big lake near you. I have three published caches of my own, so I just used the coordinates of one of my actual caches. That should avoid any potential conflicts. --Larry There's one more step you can do, and that is to archive the cache listing as well. You will still be able to access it, but that eliminates the coordinate conflict issue. Link to comment
+Singletree Expedition Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 ...use the "mark missing" option on each trackable to place them in an unknown location. You can grab them back if you ever want to send a coin traveling, and folks can still discover your trackable. If I used this "mark missing" option for my non-traveling coins, it would be tough to tell which are my non-travelers and which are bona fide missing. I would find it useful to have another option similar to "Mark Item Missing" but more descriptive for this purpose. Maybe something like this: Any bugs/coins that are in the "Personal Collection" would be filtered out of the available list when logging a cache. If you want to get them moving, just "Move to last location" and you're good to go. Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 We use an extra userid rather than an un-published cache. This saves all the hassle of grabbing them out of the unpublished cache just to drop into events etc... Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I think reviewers can still see a page, even if it's not checked... It helps reviewers if the page has "My Geocoin Collection" or similar, so they don't think it's a page being worked on for publishing. Link to comment
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