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rockhead15

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rockhead15

rockhead15

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If anyone has proof this cacher is real please post it. So far some of the caches have been checked to find no signature of this cacher and they are logging like crazy in multiple states.

PowerCachingLtd

Snoogans

+Snoogans

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If anyone has proof this cacher is real please post it. So far some of the caches have been checked to find no signature of this cacher and they are logging like crazy in multiple states.

PowerCachingLtd

 

Can't be a bot. Look where he started.

 

I'd ask for the thread to be closed.

 

Don't give him the satisfaction.

fizzymagic

+fizzymagic

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Can't be a bot. Look where he started.

Almost certainly a bot. No human can log multiple finds per minute.

 

I'd ask for the thread to be closed.

Don't give him the satisfaction.

 

The logs need to be deleted; if not by the owners, then by Groundspeak.

Snoogans

+Snoogans

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Can't be a bot. Look where he started.

Almost certainly a bot. No human can log multiple finds per minute.

 

Ahhh, I didn't think of it that way... :D

 

I looked at where the user in question started, recognized the name and several others from the forums, including me, and saw a pattern. :D

 

Now that you mention it, all the finds came in under 2 minutes. :D

 

The twerp that programmed it really needs to discover girls or rediscover his nintendo. :)

Edited by Snoogans
t4e

+t4e

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i was just about to start a thread about this

 

he/she/it has found 20 of my caches yesterday

i wouldn't have given it another thought if it wasn't for the log on a cache i have on an island accessible by boat only except that he didn't log the second one because is not listed under my name, i am co-owner

its obviously someone that is picking on certain users here

 

this one sure gets around :)

 

California

Texas

New York

Minnesota

Washington

Ontario, Canada ...18 of my caches

 

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default....44-19f65f3d0974

Mr.Yuck

Mr.Yuck

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Obviously, hitting up the caches of forum regulars. Hit a bunch by my local homeboy Gof, but none of mine. I think I must have thrown off Ashnikes ERRRRRR, I mean the bot, with the whole "TheWhiteUrkel" vs. "Mr.Yuck" name change thing. :)

dakboy

+dakboy

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Can't be a bot. Look where he started.

Almost certainly a bot. No human can log multiple finds per minute.

A Premium Member could quite easily via Field Notes.
GOF and Bacall

GOF and Bacall

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

t4e

+t4e

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

Scooter Rider

+Scooter Rider

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Can't be a bot. Look where he started.

Almost certainly a bot. No human can log multiple finds per minute.

 

Ahhh, I didn't think of it that way... :D

 

I looked at where the user in question started, recognized the name and several others from the forums, including me, and saw a pattern. :D

 

Now that you mention it, all the finds came in under 2 minutes. :D

 

The twerp that programmed it really needs to discover girls or rediscover his nintendo. :)

 

And moving out of his moms basement and getting some fresh air wouldn't hurt. :D

GOF and Bacall

GOF and Bacall

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

 

Oh I think that it is funny that someone would waste that much effort logging all those caches. What I don't get is why concentrate on forum users. Making a statement? If so, what?

Snoogans

+Snoogans

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

 

Oh I think that it is funny that someone would waste that much effort logging all those caches. What I don't get is why concentrate on forum users. Making a statement? If so, what?

 

LOL! :D:D:D

 

This is the email I sent at midnight: (after reporting him/it to Groundspeak)

 

-- Copy of email sent to PowerCachingLtd --

So you don't have anything better to do?

 

Girls...

 

Nintendo...

 

Just trying to understand your statement in so many bogus logs...

Mr.Yuck

Mr.Yuck

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

 

Oh I think that it is funny that someone would waste that much effort logging all those caches. What I don't get is why concentrate on forum users. Making a statement? If so, what?

 

Well, the most single affected user seems to be the dog with glasses. He hasn't shown up yet, so maybe he's busy deleting logs. :D

 

Before deletions, I'll guess most (but certainly not all) of these caches belonged to these forum regulars:

 

Snoogans

JHolly

Knowschad

Gof and/or associated sock puppets

t4e

 

Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out. :D

GOF and Bacall

GOF and Bacall

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

 

Oh I think that it is funny that someone would waste that much effort logging all those caches. What I don't get is why concentrate on forum users. Making a statement? If so, what?

 

Well, the most single affected user seems to be the dog with glasses. He hasn't shown up yet, so maybe he's busy deleting logs. :D

 

Before deletions, I'll guess most (but certainly not all) of these caches belonged to these forum regulars:

 

Snoogans

JHolly

Knowschad

Gof and/or associated sock puppets

t4e

 

Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out. :D

 

For the record. The only GC.com accounts I control that have active caches are the GOF & Bacall account and the GITBuff account. My original GOF1 account has a few archived caches on it yet.

knowschad

knowschad

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I have to wonder what the joke is? It just seems so pointless.

 

i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The logs are never actually deleted. They are more disconnected. If GS wants to see them they can.

 

if you look hard enough i'm sure you can see the funny side :)

 

all logs deleted now, gave my mouse some much needed exercise :D

 

Oh I think that it is funny that someone would waste that much effort logging all those caches. What I don't get is why concentrate on forum users. Making a statement? If so, what?

 

Well, the most single affected user seems to be the dog with glasses. He hasn't shown up yet, so maybe he's busy deleting logs. :D

 

Before deletions, I'll guess most (but certainly not all) of these caches belonged to these forum regulars:

 

Snoogans

JHolly

Knowschad

Gof and/or associated sock puppets

t4e

 

Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out. :D

Dog w/glasses is aware.
tozainamboku

+tozainamboku

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Well, the most single affected user seems to be the dog with glasses. He hasn't shown up yet, so maybe he's busy deleting logs. :D

 

Before deletions, I'll guess most (but certainly not all) of these caches belonged to these forum regulars:

 

Snoogans

JHolly

Knowschad

Gof and/or associated sock puppets

t4e

 

Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out. :)

I deleted the logs on my caches.

GOF and Bacall

GOF and Bacall

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Although my karma took a hit the logs are now but a fond memory. I see I can't send email to the bot anymore.

 

Why would your karma take a hit for that? You are just doing the proper maintenance on your cache listings.

 

And I see you are feeling a bit more human today. More or less. :)

Clan Riffster

Clan Riffster

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Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out.

(sniff....)

I'd have to count to be sure. I think I have about 70 active hides, plus one upcoming event.

The young miscreant bot logged finds on all of them except the event, which got a "tftc" note.

I'm thinking his mom enabled parental controls on his computer, so now he's got a lot of extra time on his hand(s).

niraD

+niraD

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Can't be a bot. Look where he started.
Almost certainly a bot. No human can log multiple finds per minute.
A Premium Member could quite easily via Field Notes.
Even without field notes, it could be done easily with multiple browser tabs/windows. (Yes, I've been mistaken for a bot before...)
Mr.Yuck

Mr.Yuck

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Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out.

(sniff....)

I'd have to count to be sure. I think I have about 70 active hides, plus one upcoming event.

The young miscreant bot logged finds on all of them except the event, which got a "tftc" note.

I'm thinking his mom enabled parental controls on his computer, so now he's got a lot of extra time on his hand(s).

 

OK, I didn't see the thread until about 7:00 AM EST, and look at the since banned user's account. So we have Mr. T and Clan Riffster in addition to the 5 I listed. I remember someone did this in New Jersey a year or two ago (and on the day of a big snowstorm) probably just to see if someone was going to start a Mid-Atlantic forum thread (which they did).

 

So I suppose I've given the knucklehead more than enough publicity. Yuck out.

kablooey

kablooey

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Well, the most single affected user seems to be the dog with glasses. He hasn't shown up yet, so maybe he's busy deleting logs. :D

 

Before deletions, I'll guess most (but certainly not all) of these caches belonged to these forum regulars:

 

Snoogans

JHolly

Knowschad

Gof and/or associated sock puppets

t4e

 

Hope I'm not leaving any of you lucky people out. :)

 

A lot of the puzzle caches logged in California belonged to candcfamily and cachbefound. I'm not sure that either of them are forum regulars. Two of my caches were logged, and I'm definitely not a forum regular. All the caches I saw logged seemed to be in the same area (as if the bot logged everything based on a Nearest search).

 

Even though this account is gone, it looks like a new one has started up (attacking Hawaiian caches): JackBobBoy

 

Maybe there are more coming? I should probably add a note to all my caches that any log with just the text "tftc" is subject to immediate deletion without verification.

kablooey

kablooey

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Oh, it's a little interesting how I found out about this joker last night.

So, I went out for an FTF on GC2FAJM last night. I put the cache on my watchlist, so that I would know whether somebody was logging the cache before I got to it (it had already been solved more than two hours earlier by three others). While I had the cache in hand and was signing the blank log, email arrived with PowerCachingLtd's log. Uh, I don't think so! :)

frivlas

+frivlas

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He/She/It hit 6 or 7 of mine and I woudn't really say I frequent for forums. Hit one of my husband's caches and he never visits the forums. I wouldn't say it is targeted.

Brad_W

Brad_W

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PowerCachingLtd is no longer an active account.

 

Thanks Brad. I know you can't say anything specific but were you guys able to determine who it was?

I cannot respond to the question, but I can say that JackBobBoy is no longer an active account.

 

I guess I had better keep an eye on this thread. :)

jholly

jholly

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PowerCachingLtd is no longer an active account.

 

Thanks Brad. I know you can't say anything specific but were you guys able to determine who it was?

I cannot respond to the question, but I can say that JackBobBoy is no longer an active account.

 

I guess I had better keep an eye on this thread. ;)

 

Has there been any thought about cleaning up the bogus logs caused by this bot? Or is this gong to be strictly cache owners responsibility? I realize deleting logs with out the cache owners input could be a bit tricky.

knowschad

knowschad

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PowerCachingLtd is no longer an active account.

 

Thanks Brad. I know you can't say anything specific but were you guys able to determine who it was?

I cannot respond to the question, but I can say that JackBobBoy is no longer an active account.

 

I guess I had better keep an eye on this thread. ;)

I appreciate your quick response on this, especially on JackBobBoy. By the way, Brad, nice avatar.
Brad_W

Brad_W

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Has there been any thought about cleaning up the bogus logs caused by this bot? Or is this gong to be strictly cache owners responsibility? I realize deleting logs with out the cache owners input could be a bit tricky.

We only take action on cache logs in limited situations such as profanity and personal attacks that violate the Terms of Use Agreement. Other than that, taking action on someone's cache page is out of bounds for us. I regret the burden this places on the affected cache owners.

jholly

jholly

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Has there been any thought about cleaning up the bogus logs caused by this bot? Or is this gong to be strictly cache owners responsibility? I realize deleting logs with out the cache owners input could be a bit tricky.

We only take action on cache logs in limited situations such as profanity and personal attacks that violate the Terms of Use Agreement. Other than that, taking action on someone's cache page is out of bounds for us. I regret the burden this places on the affected cache owners.

No, that is fine and I appreciate the response. I think it is perfectly fine.

knowschad

knowschad

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Sorry for the ignorance , what is a Bot? Thanks
Short for "Robot", or any program that automates what is normally a manual operation on the web, such as sending mass emails, fake instant messges, or in this case, logging fake Found It logs.
SilentGreenMan

+SilentGreenMan

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Sorry for the ignorance , what is a Bot? Thanks
Short for "Robot", or any program that automates what is normally a manual operation on the web, such as sending mass emails, fake instant messges, or in this case, logging fake Found It logs.

popokiiti

+popokiiti

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Thank goodness it isn't smart enough to try getting into secure areas. My impression is that it's time would be better spent cleaning up it's room. And opening a window - I bet it stinks in there!

GOF and Bacall

GOF and Bacall

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i suggest not deleting the logs just yet until the account is banned, maybe GC wants to see them

 

The reviewers can see deleted logs, don't worry about that.

I have one of the mini-fizzys that got tagged with a NM log. There is another bot sending out Needs Archived logs now

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1ZZPB

 

I see that user account has already been banned. The lackey in charge of handling this problem is doing a great job.

mountainman38

+mountainman38

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there is a new BOT out now, this time is posting NM logs

look at all the related caches

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1VZNV

I was wondering what that was about.

 

I checked on other puzzle caches in the area and found that one had an NA posted by a F0/H0 user that joined the same day:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1ZZPB

Looks like Beezerbuttkin doesn't care for this cache, either.

 

The lengths some people will go to just to prove they're a jack*ss is truly amazing.

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