Guidelines: Submitting puzzle solutions?

[+abanazar]

Another thread (webcams) brought my attention to a recent list of changes which I hadn't noticed. It includes:

 

Additional Guidelines that Apply to Specific Geocache Types

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Mystery/Puzzle: Clarified cache type name, updated process for adding additional waypoints, post reviewer note with puzzle solution.

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The guidelines referred to say:

 

Before you submit the cache listing, post a Note to Reviewer with an explanation of how the puzzle is solved. This log will auto-delete on publication.

1) I'm not quite sure why this is necessary.

2) Both on my own caches and on others, I have occasionally seen newly published caches that still contain Reviewer correspondence which hasn't been fully deleted.

3) Thank goodness though; I felt we had been getting dangerously low on "guidelines"

[+moor to sea]

Maybe it is incase the cache owner goes inactive and a friendly reviewer can give you a hint.

[+chillypenguin]

I have been asked in the past by the reviewer how to solve one of my puzzles caches. I took it as a compliment, as it was intended to be challenging.

[+simplysup]

Could the thinking be to ensure that the puzzle is actually solvable?

[team tisri]

Maybe it is incase the cache owner goes inactive and a friendly reviewer can give you a hint.

 

If the cache setter goes inactive the cache should be adopted or archived rather than kept on life support.

[+Legochugglers]

I would think it is quite reasonable for a Reviewer to understand how a puzzle cache is solved so they can ensure cachers don't have to do something illegal, immoral or unnecessarily dangerous to find the cache. I assume they wouldn't need chapter and verse but just a general idea of what is involved.