+insx Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 What's going on when people post this sort of thing? 'Just logging my personal coin in and out.' Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Some people use a trackable item to track thier own personal "mileage" between caches. The practice is sometimes reffered to as "dipping a TB for miles". The actual item rarely literally accompanies them and gets dropped into and retrieved from a cache. Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) The actual item rarely literally accompanies them Mines does! Edited July 27, 2009 by aniyn Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 So does mine. Typically people do the drop along with their found it log so you normally don't know it's happening. A specific log like that is probably someone fixing some back-logging. Quote Link to comment
+Ms.Scrabbler Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 What's going on when people post this sort of thing? 'Just logging my personal coin in and out.' From what I understand coin dipping is to keep track of how many miles you've traveled. And I'm guessing the owner enters it under trackables like you would if you took or left a coin or TB, What I don't understand is why it has to be noted on every log the coin dipper enters. Just curious. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 What I don't understand is why it has to be noted on every log the coin dipper enters. Just curious. What usually happens is someone decides to start using a personal travel bug and wants to backlog every cache they've been to. They'll post a Note on previous caches using the date they found the cache and drop the bug. A short explanation is nice and they can then immediately delete the cache log and the bug logging will stay accurate. The best thing is to say you will delete the cache note. Some caches owners find the logs annoying but at least the log isn't left on the cache page. Whenever you drop your personal travel bug along with a Found it note for a cache you currently found there is no reason to mention your personal TB. On a side note, tracking mileage is barely accurate. Most just like to log their bug as a companion who went along for the ride. Quote Link to comment
+Ms.Scrabbler Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 What I don't understand is why it has to be noted on every log the coin dipper enters. Just curious. What usually happens is someone decides to start using a personal travel bug and wants to backlog every cache they've been to. They'll post a Note on previous caches using the date they found the cache and drop the bug. A short explanation is nice and they can then immediately delete the cache log and the bug logging will stay accurate. The best thing is to say you will delete the cache note. Some caches owners find the logs annoying but at least the log isn't left on the cache page. Whenever you drop your personal travel bug along with a Found it note for a cache you currently found there is no reason to mention your personal TB. On a side note, tracking mileage is barely accurate. Most just like to log their bug as a companion who went along for the ride. We see it on over 1/2 of the current logs for our caches. These are not for old finds they are trying to catch up on. I'd be interested in hearing why it's noted in the find. Anyone do this? Quote Link to comment
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