+6DogNight Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 We have several caches hidden, and usually when we post one it is approved within hours, however, our latest cache is STILL not approved and it has been 48 hours now. Anyone else having this problem? Brian and Shelia Lucero 6DogNight Albuquerque, NM Link to comment
+welch Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 I think it may be related to the website being quite SLOW on Sunday. And weekends usually see lots of new reports anyways so.... give it more time . Link to comment
+flask Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 oy. hoch mir nit kein tchynik. it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Mine just got approved just a matter of an hour or two after I posted it. Link to comment
+6DogNight Posted April 15, 2003 Author Share Posted April 15, 2003 Good for you - we were only wondering why ours took roughly 54 hours to be approved (though it was approved within minutes of posting this thread!) Brian and Shelia Lucero 6DogNight Albuquerque, NM Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 That may have just been a coincidence, 6DogNight. I have never had a problem or a long wait and am quite grateful to whoever approves caches for my area. You do quite a fine job and I thank you! ----- You must be present to win. Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 The website was very slow indeed on Sunday night when I got home. A couple of approvers were out on business trips this past week and weekend, me included. I left Atlanta Sunday at 8:00 AM and flew to Tampa. I worked there, drove to Orlando, worked some more, found 3 caches on the way to the airport after work (you know, priorities) and arrived back in ATL at about 10:00 PM. I was pretty busy Monday and got home late. Things seemed to get a little faster Monday and definately on Tuesday. Being out Sunday didn't help, but I gotta' work every now and then! Link to comment
gr Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I understand you're quite spoilt over there in the States. I'm waiting already 120 hours for approvement of my youngest cache... One year ago a couple of hours was normal. E-mails not answered... Am I doing something wrong? Link to comment
+erik88l-r Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 quote: I understand you're quite spoilt over there in the States. I'm waiting already 120 hours for approvement of my youngest cache... One year ago a couple of hours was normal. E-mails not answered... Am I doing something wrong? Yotian Soldier is the cache approver who normally handles your area. But I'll look for your cache in the queue. Ik kan ook een beetje hollands lezen (maar niet spreken). Tot ziens, erik - geocaching.com admin Link to comment
+rickrich Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 IMHO, caches should be automatically approved when submitted, on a conditional basis. Then, when a reviewer gets around to it, they can decide to revoke the approval or not. Only one cache submission per day would get the default approval. Any additional caches would require human approval (to prevent programs from flooding the site with bogus caches). Depending on abuse, the reviewer could also flip a flag and change the default for that account to "not approved". New accounts would also get "default: not approved" until they have logged at least one cache find. To me, its a matter of being a pessimist or an optimist. I say, assume people are good and aren't going to post bogus caches. My submission today seems to have disappeared into some kind of black hole, and now I don't know whether or not to resubmit it, and the only email I get is from a bot. Link to comment
+erik88l-r Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 rickrich, don't resubmit your cache. It is in about the middle of the approval queue. About 150 caches have been submitted since yours was, so resubmiting it wouldn't be a good idea. Cache approval is done regionally, with the approver for a given area working down the list on caches in states or countries that he "covers". Since it's Easter Sunday be patient. As far as caches being automatically posted, I suggested once that the cache approval process be a self approval one; with new pages loading as you reply to questions and fill in the blanks on the previous page. Sort of like an online purchase where you verify address and payment info after verifying your product selection. Unfortunately there are too many people who would just check the boxes and jump from page to page. We get enough submission that demonstrate that the guidelines have been ignored that we'd set ourselves up for problems. I'd hate to have to archive a cache containing alchohol buried beside the RR tracks that run over the dam in the National Park after several enthusiastic geocachers have already printed out the page and headed out to be the first to log it. erik - geocaching.com admin Link to comment
+rickrich Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 quote:... be patient ... Are we there yet? Are we there yet? My kids just couldn't wait for the official post. I had to give them the coordinates just to shut them up. Off they went on their bikes, in the rain with the GPS in a ziploc. Silence is golden. An hour later that plan backfired, because now they want to log it :-). Can we log it? Can we log it? Can we log it? Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 Actually, yes. Since it is your page and you can see it your kids can go ahead and log the cache as found if they want. Link to comment
gr Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by ~erik~:Yotian Soldier is the cache approver who normally handles your area. But I'll look for your cache in the queue. Ik kan ook een beetje hollands lezen (maar niet spreken). Tot ziens, erik - geocaching.com admin Thanks Eric. It's about geocache X-Treme. I can't imagine there would be anything wrong with it. The cache still hasn't appeared on the site. What's happening? Hé great, tot ziens! Link to comment
+erik88l-r Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 quote: The cache still hasn't appeared on the site. What's happening? I'm sorry, but I haven't seen a cache of yours in the approval queue. Are you quite sure it hasn't been posted? If you e-mail me with the cache URL or GCxxxx waypoint number I can check further but all indications are that it's posted or you would have gotten an archive notification. Maybe you screwed up and put in a West longitude instead of East, or made some other mistake that make it not show up where you think it should..... ~erik~ Link to comment
gr Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 quote:If you e-mail me with the cache URL or GCxxxx waypoint number Done! Tnx. Link to comment
+erik88l-r Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 After I approved gr's cache and viewed it it had "This cache is temporarily unavailable..." in red at the top. I re-enabled it to remove that. I would't think that would make the cache not display on the approval queue, but it's possible. Come to think of it, I used to see disabled caches on the queue every now and then but probably haven't in many months. The moral of the story - don't disable a cache that hasn't even been posted. erik - geocaching.com admin Link to comment
Jeremy Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Disabling a cache will leave it out of the approval queue. This has been changed for several months now since many people like to post a cache and then disable it, which was clogging the queue with unapprovable (a word?) caches. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Cache placed Sunday at 8 am, forwarded for approval at around 10 am, approved before 10 am Monday. Thanks Crashmore! "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde Link to comment
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